[mickronome]

I would very much like to have something like Google authenticator, but for billing. With the ability so set it as alarms on my phone (and coworkers), preferably with some smarts to detect short usage spikes.

In essence, settings and updating amount, rate and velocity ( speed of rate change ) caps on the fly.

Then I can set whatever tight limit I want to, and not worry about burning through too much cash because of some simple coding, or config error.

A bug almost cost us several tens of thousands of BigQuery costs when a dev accidentally repeated a big query every 5 seconds in an automated script, and while we still had budget warnings, it still cost us a fair bit of money. Even after this, I found it tricky to set/catch budgets for single services. I think I had to use stackdriver to be able to get any kind of warning.

It was in the ’blinking lights and sirens’- territory fast!