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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

606 points · 302 comments · elffjs

  1. joshdavham · · focus · HN ↗
    It’s incredible that in 2026, AWS and GCP are only just now introducing this. It’s possibly one of the most obviously needed features for a cloud provider.

    Also, does anyone know why it’s taken this long? I suspect it’s a technical reason. While one could be cynical, I doubt it’s an intentional business/product decision. Hard spending caps are both excellent product differentiators and could possibly save these providers money as they don’t have to forgive their users when they accidentally over-use a service.

    1. bpodgursky · · focus · HN ↗
      How do you hard-cap S3 and other persistent data storage?

      "Sorry, you had a hard cap on AWS spend so we deleted all your S3 data on August 27th". Yeah not going to fly.

      1. simonw · · focus · HN ↗
        See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;accounts&#x2F;latest&#x2F;reference&#x2F;create-spend-limit.html#spend-limit-reached" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;accounts&#x2F;latest&#x2F;reference&#x2F;create... - they pause your access but don&#x27;t delete your data for a 90 day grace period.
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