Calling AI APIs and LLMs can burn through your cloud budget faster than traditional workloads. Standard budget alerts warn you after you’ve already racked up costs, but they don’t actually stop the traffic.
In this video, Mollie Pettit shows Martin Omander step-by-step how to set up hard spending caps on Google Cloud to stop surprise bills. We’ll look at how spend caps work, configure one in the console, and run a live test on a Gemini API app to see what happens when the cap is breached.
Google Cloud Spend Caps Docs → https://g.dev/cloud/docs-spend-caps
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:13 How create a spend cap
2:04 The spend cap triggered
2:33 Questions & Answers
3:54 Takeaways
4:26 Conclusion
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