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by ryan29 1800 days ago
> I really wish you could just designate a group of resources as unimportant, set a billing limit, and let Amazon nuke everything / delete your files / whatever, if you go over the limit.

That's exactly how it should work. It would even be useful if I could designate my development / testing account as unimportant by default so everything can be nuked to limit spending.

I think it's the kind of thing that will only be solved by regulation. The government needs to institute the concept of capped overages for cloud providers where if I set my budget to $100 / month they aren't allowed to send me a 100x bill for $10k.

Here's the 9 year old request for the same thing on Azure.

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/170030-signup-and-billing/...

I politely asked @AzureSupport (on Twitter) if they could have someone provide an update, but they didn't deliver on their promise to follow up :-(