> We had a budget alert (€80) and a cost anomaly alert, both of which triggered with a delay of a few hours. By the time we reacted, costs were already around €28,000.
I had a similar experience with GCP where I set a budget of $100 and was only emailed 5 hours after exceeding the budget by which time I was well over it.
It's mind boggling that features like this aren't prioritized. Sure it would probably make Google less money short term, but surely that's more preferable to providing devs with such a poor experience that they'd never recommend your platform to anyone else again.
This was shared with me years ago by another developer I worked with. I still reference it today as I continue my external battle with the complexity demon.
I had a similar experience with GCP where I set a budget of $100 and was only emailed 5 hours after exceeding the budget by which time I was well over it.
It's mind boggling that features like this aren't prioritized. Sure it would probably make Google less money short term, but surely that's more preferable to providing devs with such a poor experience that they'd never recommend your platform to anyone else again.