Simon Willison: pay-as-you-go services should have hard budget caps by default; AWS has launched spending limits
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
What happened
Simon Willison called for pay-as-you-go APIs and services to have hard budget caps by default: once monthly spending reaches $X, the service should cut off and return an error rather than merely send warning emails. He noted that AWS launched monthly spending limits on September 16; a project pauses for the rest of the month when it reaches its cap. The feature is currently available only to some customers. Google Cloud launched Spend Caps in July.
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