

Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire (theregister.com) 11
An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts.
An alarmed Register reader got in touch after receiving warnings from Azure's automated systems that they had significantly exceeded their budgets, and a glance at Microsoft's support forums indicates their issue was not isolated.
The problem was that costs had suddenly ramped up. One user, with a budget threshold of $85, received an automated alert indicating that their spend was forecast to reach $1,027. Another said: "We're actively seeing the same issue, costs have blown up by a crazy amount. No official notice or announcement from Microsoft either, it's appalling."
An alarmed Register reader got in touch after receiving warnings from Azure's automated systems that they had significantly exceeded their budgets, and a glance at Microsoft's support forums indicates their issue was not isolated.
The problem was that costs had suddenly ramped up. One user, with a budget threshold of $85, received an automated alert indicating that their spend was forecast to reach $1,027. Another said: "We're actively seeing the same issue, costs have blown up by a crazy amount. No official notice or announcement from Microsoft either, it's appalling."
The cloud is a trap (Score:5, Insightful)
Run away!
Re:The cloud is a trap (Score:5, Informative)
"The first fix is free" comes to mind.
If I buy a computer then I know the expenses and all that remains is cost of electricity and internet access.
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Re: The cloud is a trap (Score:2)
I bet it's got something to do with AI (Score:2)
It's time someone's looked into the cost explorer and proved me right.
"We used Copilot to calculate these costs" (Score:3)
That's as good an explanation as any, and since "hallucinations" in AI are acceptable to a lot of people on the AI Hype Bubble, it relieves Microsoft of the responsibility for this.
"problematic" = "MS messed up, again" (Score:2)
And again and again and again. Why do these incompetents still have customers?
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Why do these incompetents still have customers?
Because their customers are even more incompetent.