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> Is there seriously no way in AWS/Azure/GCP to specify "Here's my budget, shut everything down if I exceed $X"?

All of them have billing APIs which should, in principal, allow you to build “Shutdown everything at some indefinite time interval (and additional spend) after I exceed $X”, though you’ll need to do nontrivial custom coding to tie together the various pieces to do it, and actually stopping all spend is likely going to mean nuking storage, not just halting “active” services.

None of them provide anyway to more than probabilistically do “Shut everything down before I exceed, and in a way which prevents exceeding, $X.”




>though you’ll need to do nontrivial custom coding to tie together the various pieces to do it,

Let me guess...hosted on the cloud we're trying to shut down?


> Let me guess...hosted on the cloud we're trying to shut down?

It needs to consume APIs from that cloud, but there is no reason it would need to be hosted there.




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