> it's really hard to find a good setting which doesn't allow to much "over" cost and at the same time doesn't hinder the intended auto-scaling use-case > I cr

> it's really hard to find a good setting which doesn't allow to much "over" cost and at the same time doesn't hinder the intended auto-scaling use-case > I created a new GCP project ANC-AI Dev, set up $7 Cloud Billing budget, kept Firebase Project on the Free (Spark) plan. There's a lot of middle ground between $7 and $72k. Your quote explains it perfectly though. They flat out can't because the accounting and reporting is badly designed and incapable of providing (near) real-time data. IMHO the easiest solution to this is government regulation. If you set a budget for a pay-what-you-use online service there should be legislation forbidding companies from charging you more than that. I also find it (sort of) hilarious they can magically lock the whole thing down once payment fails, but not before the CC is (presumably) maxed out. Lol. Talk about a good deal for Google.