I can think of loads of reasons why you might be legitimately in that situation...
Perhaps you intentionally provisioned a large amount of headroom for a forthcoming expected/possible traffic spike.
In that example it would be annoying to get "are you sure you want to have this extra resource running?" emails.
(sure, you should be building the system to auto-provision but that would have required a better programmer and you just got the interns to build it, etc)
I get tons of emails saying "Would you like to buy viagra?". Getting an occasional email saying "You might be paying us too much money" is low on my list of annoyances.
My bank emails me when I withdraw over a certain amount, they send me a text message and sometimes will give me a call. Those are not annoyances, those are safety guards I want in place.
I think it'd be a useful feature for a good number of their users. It should be able to extrapolate based on previous usage, and notify me if I'm extremely outside my average historical utilization rate. They ought to allow you to set a sensitivity or threshold, and they also ought to let you opt out altogether.
They could give you the option to turn off the notification if enough people complained about it, though I doubt they would. I don't usually find it annoying when a company goes out of their way to look out for my best interests, especially if it could cost them money short-term.
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I can think of loads of reasons why you might be legitimately in that situation...
Perhaps you intentionally provisioned a large amount of headroom for a forthcoming expected/possible traffic spike.
In that example it would be annoying to get "are you sure you want to have this extra resource running?" emails.
(sure, you should be building the system to auto-provision but that would have required a better programmer and you just got the interns to build it, etc)
I get tons of emails saying "Would you like to buy viagra?". Getting an occasional email saying "You might be paying us too much money" is low on my list of annoyances.
Not only that, but I will almost never be annoyed by someone who says "wait, are you sure you really want to pay us that much?"
My bank emails me when I withdraw over a certain amount, they send me a text message and sometimes will give me a call. Those are not annoyances, those are safety guards I want in place.
I think it'd be a useful feature for a good number of their users. It should be able to extrapolate based on previous usage, and notify me if I'm extremely outside my average historical utilization rate. They ought to allow you to set a sensitivity or threshold, and they also ought to let you opt out altogether.
They could give you the option to turn off the notification if enough people complained about it, though I doubt they would. I don't usually find it annoying when a company goes out of their way to look out for my best interests, especially if it could cost them money short-term.