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2019-04-30 21:43:34
As of July 2017 you can set budgets that send notifications via email but do not cap spending:
To set an alert-only budget, which will not cap spending:
- Go to the Cloud Platform Console.
- Open the console left side menu and click Billing
- If you have more than one billing account, click the billing account name.
- On the left, click Budgets & alerts.
Official help page: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6293540?hl=en
I don't see anything there that suggests that it (settings budgets and alerts) will "restrict the overall spending". My read is that it just sends an e-mail alert!
Yeah it's still really unclear, shame on them for this.
When setting a budget, it actually explicitly says 'Setting a budget does not cap resource or API consumption.' So it is just alerts - not hard limits. You can however set API usage limits elsewhere.