[Retailer]

Google has alert thresholds (you set it up under your Budget). But practically speaking, an alert is not enough - what if you are unavailable to get the alert, it comes in the middle of the night, etc?

A better solution would have been 'limits' which they used to have (at least for Google App Engine) but which has been deprecated.

We had to spend sometime to research and see if there was a work around because just like the author of the article, we were quite worried about suddenly consuming a huge amount of resources, getting a spike in our bill and our accounts being cut off/suspended because we hadn't paid the bill. We've documented our solution here

https://retailingplatform.com/blog/how-to-control-costs-on-a...