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You can't even set spending limits on Google Cloud and have to use some obscure script that deactivates billing if you want to imitate it. The whole product is

You can't even set spending limits on Google Cloud and have to use some obscure script that deactivates billing if you want to imitate it. The whole product is incredibly buggy and complicated.

antifa 2y ago
GCP charges you insane prices for egress bandwidth to China/Asia and offers no clear and simple way to say "I don't have any customers there."
denysvitali 2y ago
I seem to recall Azure had a similar issue until recently. Pay-as-you-go accounts weren't able to set budgets. I wanted to link the specific article mentioning that, but it seems like this works now :)
- benterix 2y ago
  Wait, so you can now set up a hard cap on your spending and they guarantee they won't charge you more? It would be exciting but I don't believe they actually allow that especially as their competition also refused to implement that, in spite of it being no #1 requested feature for many years.
  - denysvitali 2y ago
    By the looks of it (their updated documentation) it seems like they do support this now! I haven't tried it myself, and I hope it's true (:
    - jcrben 2y ago
      Where did you see this documentation?
      - denysvitali 2y ago
        Okay, my bad, I was looking at this page [1] which says that the "Cost Management" feature is available for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions, but [2] is pretty clear on the fact that Spending Limits aren't available for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions. So, TL;DR: Azure still doesn't allow you to set spending limits on Pay-as-you-go subscriptions [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/understand-cost-mgt-data#supported-microsoft-azure-offers https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-bill... [2]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/support/legal/offer-details/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/support/legal/offer-detail...
ElFitz 2y ago
Do any cloud providers have this? AWS has slightly improved with their "budgets" and "budget actions", but it’s far from something I’d call a "spending limit".
- benterix 2y ago
  > AWS has slightly improved with their "budgets" and "budget actions", but it’s far from something I’d call a "spending limit". Yeah they had to do something so they came up with a half-solution that basically informs you with a delay, doesn't prevent any quick damage and - if you decide to use budget actions - requires you to know what is actually causing the problem. Better than nothing I guess.

You can't even set spending limits on Google Cloud and have to use some obscure script that deactivates billing if you want to imitate it. The whole product is incredibly buggy and complicated.

antifa 2y ago

GCP charges you insane prices for egress bandwidth to China/Asia and offers no clear and simple way to say "I don't have any customers there."

denysvitali 2y ago

I seem to recall Azure had a similar issue until recently. Pay-as-you-go accounts weren't able to set budgets. I wanted to link the specific article mentioning that, but it seems like this works now :)

benterix 2y ago
Wait, so you can now set up a hard cap on your spending and they guarantee they won't charge you more? It would be exciting but I don't believe they actually allow that especially as their competition also refused to implement that, in spite of it being no #1 requested feature for many years.
- denysvitali 2y ago
  By the looks of it (their updated documentation) it seems like they do support this now! I haven't tried it myself, and I hope it's true (:
  - jcrben 2y ago
    Where did you see this documentation?
    - denysvitali 2y ago
      Okay, my bad, I was looking at this page [1] which says that the "Cost Management" feature is available for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions, but [2] is pretty clear on the fact that Spending Limits aren't available for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions. So, TL;DR: Azure still doesn't allow you to set spending limits on Pay-as-you-go subscriptions [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/understand-cost-mgt-data#supported-microsoft-azure-offers https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-bill... [2]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/support/legal/offer-details/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/support/legal/offer-detail...

ElFitz 2y ago

Do any cloud providers have this? AWS has slightly improved with their "budgets" and "budget actions", but it’s far from something I’d call a "spending limit".

benterix 2y ago
> AWS has slightly improved with their "budgets" and "budget actions", but it’s far from something I’d call a "spending limit". Yeah they had to do something so they came up with a half-solution that basically informs you with a delay, doesn't prevent any quick damage and - if you decide to use budget actions - requires you to know what is actually causing the problem. Better than nothing I guess.