The only way I can read that is 'setting a cap does nothing' but reading that tells me that it only turns on email notifications. Not any better really. It's simply not a cap. It's an alarm.
sunaookami•24m ago
Yes, there is no way to set a budget for Google Cloud. And alarms are delayed up to two hours (!)
7bit•23m ago
Click here to let the puppy life*
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perryizgr8•26m ago
I think I read somewhere that calculating and limiting cloud usage costs is a really hard problem. But I feel that if Google were motivated to do it, they can do it. It's hard, not impossible. They just don't care to solve this particular problem.
AlotOfReading•19m ago
It's the same fundamental problem as view counters, something Google is famously good at solving. Eventually consistent solutions are well-understood, and wouldn't have these kinds of massive cost-overruns.
lazide•7m ago
Depends on latency. 24 hour delays on an eventually consistent counter used for billing absolutely would cause this problem.
victor106•3m ago
Why doesn’t GCP provide a way to say “shut down all my services if my cap is reached”?
ReptileMan•1h ago
dpoloncsak•39m ago
With that said, when you go to set a budget it warns you "Setting a budget does not cap resource or API consumption. Learn more." with a hyperlink to https://docs.cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets?_g...
Telaneo•26m ago
sunaookami•24m ago
7bit•23m ago
* By clicking here you agree to kill it
And you're defending that?