Azure will alert you when you exceed a budget, but it won't disable anything.
Azure MongoDB billing was insanity. I was up to $800 to host a couple of GB that wasn't doing anything.
I'm still not sure what happened, even their support kept saying "it's priced by request units" and I kept saying "How does a handful of queries a day translate to $40 in request units?"
A year later, I think that I had a lot of collections and they seem to charge per-collection, but I'm still not even sure. Thank goodness we moved off of it after only a month or two.
I work for MongoDB. The writer is referring to CosmosDB, the Microsoft clone of MongoDB. You can runa real MongoDB cluster on Azure with MongoDB Atlas. The pricing model for Atlas is per Node size + disk + memory + data transfer. It's generally easier to predict your costs using this model. Users tend to over-provision with this model so we recommend using auto-scaling. This will allow your cluster to scale up or down based on load (price will adjust as well).
Azure MongoDB billing was insanity. I was up to $800 to host a couple of GB that wasn't doing anything.
I'm still not sure what happened, even their support kept saying "it's priced by request units" and I kept saying "How does a handful of queries a day translate to $40 in request units?"
A year later, I think that I had a lot of collections and they seem to charge per-collection, but I'm still not even sure. Thank goodness we moved off of it after only a month or two.