Generally available
Spend cap budgets are now generally available for a limited set of services
Spend cap budgets are now generally available for a limited set of services
For eligible services, you can configure a spend cap budget to automatically pause usage when your estimated spend exceeds the budget amount you set. You can manage spend cap budgets in the Budgets page in the Google Cloud console and using the Cloud Billing Budget API.
Spend caps are a cost control mechanism. A spend cap is enforced when usage costs exceed your budget target amount. When enforced, any new request to the eligible services, within the specified project, are paused and no further usage costs are accrued until the spend cap is lifted. You can manually lift an enforced spend cap, or wait until the start of the next month when the spend cap is automatically lifted.
Spend caps use gross, estimated costs to trigger the alerts and caps, enforcing a cap much faster than the actual costs are processed and appear on billing reports. Even though faster than reports, the enforcement of spend caps isn't instant and any cost overages are billed as normal.
More information about spend cap budgets
For managing spend cap budgets in the Google Cloud console, see:
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