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by Dylan16807 138 days ago
> Quota for what?

Sure, I'm interested too.

> In my experience the GCP service quotas are pretty sensible and if you’re running up against them you’re either dealing with unusual levels of traffic or (more often) you’re just using that service incorrectly.

Well 0 is not sensible, and who cares if it's weird if they got detailed approval and they're paying for it.
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vrosas 138 days ago
Sure, but the comment is so vague I’m skeptical the OP knew what they were doing in the first place, or it happened exactly as they wrote. Maybe a service quota was reset to the default? But just set to zero? Doesn’t pass the sniff test.
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Nifty3929 138 days ago
"... and they're paying for it..." - that might be the exact issue. Google has no way to ensure that these small shops and startups will pay their bill, so quotas are used to prevent the company from running up a large bill they won't be able to pay.

I see a bunch of threads on reddit about startups accidentally going way over budget and then asking for credits back.

This doesn't at all mean the startups have bad intent, but things happen and Google doesn't want to deal with a huge collection issue.

If someone rolled up to your gas station and wanted to pump 10,000 gallons of gas but only pay you next month - would you allow it?

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3eb7988a1663 138 days ago
Well that is kind of a problem of their own making. The clouds refuse to entertain the prospect of pre-paying for services/having some sort of hard spending limits because they know that over-allocation is probably driving a decent amount of revenue.
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bilekas 138 days ago
I dont really understand ops problem as I've been able to set monthly limits on expenditure. Seems trivial to setup.
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dpkirchner 137 days ago
Are you sure you're not thinking of billing alerts? AFAIK there is still no way to set spending limits at GCP.
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bilekas 137 days ago
I'll admit it's a bit obscure But there is info here.

https://docs.cloud.google.com/apis/docs/capping-api-usage

Or you can do it programmatically.

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

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vrosas 138 days ago
That’s not how quotas work in GCP. Google sets quotas for certain APIs for interacting with GCP itself, like how many VMs you can create per second. They’re not billable. Sometimes these quotas can be be increased if you need them to be. But the way op described it makes no sense.
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