[phodge]

Loosely related - this is what terrifies me about deploying to cloud services like Google which have no hard limit on monthly spend - if background jobs get stuck in an infinite loop using 100% CPU while I'm away camping, my fledgling business could be bankrupt by the time I get phone signal back.

[Bartweiss]

Woah, how does Google Cloud still not support budget capping?

It has budget alerting, so the capabilities are obviously there, but it's never been added. Instead, there's just a vaguely insulting guide on writing a script to catch the alert and trigger a shutdown...

[shawabawa3]

Pretty sure Google cloud does support it

Pretty sure aws still doesn't

[Bartweiss]

Google App Engine has spending cutoffs. Cloud allows API call cutoffs, but for actual spend it only has alerts. Their 'controlling budget' page sends you to a guide on writing your own triggers to respond to those alerts:

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets

[jeremydavid]

You can set maximum spend limits :)