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

606 points · 302 comments · elffjs

joshdavham · 1791078994 · 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. cubefox · 1791091973 · 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.
  GCP did have a budget cap previously. I think the new one is just more fine-grained to apply to specific services.

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