It's the same with Azure. On multiple occasion, I had databases created in tiers several times expensive than the one I use with my subscription. This wasn't a

It's the same with Azure. On multiple occasion, I had databases created in tiers several times expensive than the one I use with my subscription. This wasn't a manual mistake; a sleeping app got awakened (may be I'd have hit the run button by mistake) and it ended up creating the database via the ORM framework. Since the ORM framework is only executing create database on the sql server, Azure goes with the default for tier which they had chosen as one with $250 or something monthly price. I've setup the budget alerts on Azure but these are threshold (% of budget consumed) based and they come every month so technically they aren't alert rather information which requires you to do the math whether or not you're in the budget. So you tend to ignore them after a while. Recently, we decided to build a simple solution ourselves [0] which gives alerts based on budgeted pace and not consumption. 0: https://cloudalarm.in/ https://cloudalarm.in/