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As others have said, this is a "feature" for Google, not a bug. There is no easy way to set a hard cap on billing on a project. I spent the better time of an ho
by dabedee 7mo ago
As others have said, this is a "feature" for Google, not a bug. There is no easy way to set a hard cap on billing on a project. I spent the better time of an hour trying to find it in the billing settings in GCP, only to land on reddit and figuring out that you could set a budget alert to trigger a Pub/Sub message, which triggers a Cloud Function to disable billing for the project. Insanity.
- onemoresoop 7mo agoCall it for what it is, an antifeature, a trap for the user.
- deleted 7mo ago[deleted]
- alasano 7mo agoMy favorite Google LLM benchmark is asking Gemini models to create a script that fetches API usage (just request counts) for a project from GCP. 100% failure rate.
- dpkirchner 7mo agoI've yet to receive an accurate response from Gemini about GCP services, beyond completely trivial topics. The most recent, I think, was Gemini advising me that I could attach an existing pd SSD PVC to a n4 or c4 VM. For whatever unknowable reason, Google doesn't allow this and doesn't offer a migration path, and Gemini doesn't "know" anything about it either. It's wild.
- alasano 7mo agoAgreed on the fact that it should know, it's their LLM. What bothers me is even having it do extensive research in documentation, it still can't figure it out. GCP must simply be so unintuitive that the LLM mind cannot comprehend it.
- intended 7mo agoAs the other user said - this would be an anti-feature and user hostile. This is a sign that somehow there isn’t sufficient incentive to work on these features.
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- imafish 7mo agoThis is from my experience the same in AWS and Azure. I would love for a kill-switch if the usage goes above a critical threshold. 5 hours down time will not kill my app but a huge cloud bill might.
- coredog64 7mo agoIt's been a year since I last looked at this, but when I did you could get near-realtime cost metrics for AWS Bedrock via CloudWatch (you get input & output token counts and have to generate the actual price yourself)
- lxgr 7mo agoThis is presumably by design: How can it be the vendor's fault if your custom billing protection implementation failed you at a critical time? Much harder to defend against a switch on their dashboard allowing billing overshoot.
- p_stuart82 7mo ago[flagged]
- weird-eye-issue 7mo agoThanks LLM.
- p_stuart82 7mo agoyou're welcome.
- croes 7mo ago> Insanity You mean cash machine