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.

Agreed. I don't agree with the underlying design decisions either, but you literally set a "Budget Alert" on Google Cloud. It's designed to be an alarm, not a cap. I was just trying to point that out

IMO it’s deceptive to market it as a cap. It’s genuinely confusing.

The service page should read “we can charge you an unlimited amount at any time if you make a technical mistake”

Yes, there is no way to set a budget for Google Cloud. And alarms are delayed up to two hours (!)

I am fairly sure that this is antipattern on purpose. If you ask a thousand people on the street what a budget means - they will coalesce on - the money I am willing to spend on something.

The fact that google redefine what budget means and put a warning doesn't make it ok.

Even if US clouds will make more money per capita in the US it has more total income and political advantage from the other 95% of people. US law will be as pro-consumer as Delaware law. (And it will be as restricted to the jurisdiction that decides it as IP law.)

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And you're defending that?

No, I think Google should provide easy tools to actually cap spending, instead of recommending you set quota limits on your APIs.

The article, and the comment I was replying to, make it seem like an error in the Google Budget system. I'm simply trying to say this system is working as designed and documented.

Whoa! What?!

I recently turned a couple things on in google cloud and I was under the impression that the budget was a hard limit, not an email notify system.

If this is true I must seriously rethink my plan for marketing, and throttle on my own website somehow.