On: How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure

[scubbo]

I'd be fascinated to hear how Terraform would have intelligently known that those instances were not meant to stay on overnight.

[WrtCdEvrydy → scubbo]

Honestly, I'd create the instances using an ASG, then set the ASG size to 0 (or throw inside a while loop until any errors go away). Always create instances from an AMI and always put them in an ASG (even if the ASG only has 1 item min, target, and max on it).

[jenkinstrigger → WrtCdEvrydy]

I love Terraform and ASGs but that still doesn't solve the fact that their SRE overprovisioned. They might have even used both things!