[3eb7988a1663]

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.

[bilekas]

I dont really understand ops problem as I've been able to set monthly limits on expenditure. Seems trivial to setup.

[dpkirchner]

Are you sure you're not thinking of billing alerts? AFAIK there is still no way to set spending limits at GCP.

[bilekas]

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...