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Re:AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance by Terretta on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:07AM (#27906483)
> GCP's official method for doing this is … a cloud function that disables billing if your bill goes over a configured limit

I’d love it if GCP’s official method were to disable billing if your bill went over a limit.

Sadly, I suspect it would just disable systems instead.

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Re:AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance by nucleardog on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:52PM (#27909617)
How does "disabling billing" but not "disabling systems" work?

Is this like asking the phone company "When I reach my plan limits, stop charging me money but let me keep making calls?"

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Re:AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance by Terretta on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:07PM (#27945487)
That was my point.

I think GP was incorrect in the mechanism there.

I quoted GP verbatim, they said disable billing rather than disable service or delivery or system.

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