I've used NearlyFreeSpeech for years (as registrar & DNS), and I've loved their service. Their site is plain, and you just trade money for a plain, simple produ

I've used NearlyFreeSpeech for years (as registrar & DNS), and I've loved their service. Their site is plain, and you just trade money for a plain, simple product, with basically 0 bullshit between you and that exchange. Their site is so refreshing in today's landscape of upsells and other corporate dark patterns. The article implicates AWS, but AFAICT the other major cloud, GCP, behaves similarly. The docs for "budget alerts"[1] do call it out directly, > Setting a budget does not automatically cap Google Cloud or Google Maps Platform usage or spending. Budgets trigger alerts to inform you of how your usage costs are trending over time. Budget alert emails might prompt you to take action to control your costs, but they don't automatically prevent the use or billing of your services when the budget amount or threshold rules are met or exceeded. But still. But wait, you say, those docs go on to suggest, > One option to automatically control spending is to use budget notifications to programmatically disable Cloud Billing on a project. And the linked page states, > Following the steps in this capping example doesn't guarantee that you won't spend more than your budget. sigh "Over-Engineered Messes", TFA hits it on the nose. There's also limiting API usage, but that's on requests … not on cost. I avoid it all for personal stuff. At work, we pipe all these cloud bills into a BigQuery account which then pipes into graphs in Grafana, which all tells us that engineers have no idea what the actual horsepower of 3 GHz * 32 cores is when they request a bajillion more cores. It's probably also reasonably categorized as an "Over-Engineered Mess". (We also import Azure's billing data, and boy do they make that obnoxious. CSV files dumping into a bucket, and they might go back & edit CSVs, or drop new ones, and if there is there a schema for those CSV files … I've yet to find it. Some columns you might think were guaranteed non-"" are not. Dates in American. Severely denormalized. Etc.) [1]: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets