Definition
Billing controls halting pay-by-usage cloud services after a monthly threshold. Hard caps return errors; soft caps only warn.
Key Points
- simon-willison argues default-on hard caps with opt-out uncapped mode
- AWS spend limits (Sept 16): project pause at threshold
- GCP Spend Caps (July): block Gemini API, Cloud Run, etc.
Pause vs hard error semantics differ between providers.