https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Cost Optimization feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/11/google-cloud-spend-caps/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Cost+Optimization <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/11/google-cloud-spend-caps/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1793609514337.jpg"/><p>Google Cloud has made spend caps on Cloud Billing Budgets generally available, pausing new usage of a service in a project once a monthly budget is hit, without deleting resources. GA adds an API, estimated live costs, and automatic monthly resets, but caps cover only the Gemini API, the Agent Platform, Cloud Run, and Cloud Run functions, and overages during enforcement delays are still billed.</p> <i>By Steef-Jan Wiggers</i> Google Cloud Platform FinOps Google Cloud Cost Optimization Cloud Computing Cloud Development Architecture & Design DevOps news Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:39:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/11/google-cloud-spend-caps/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Cost+Optimization Steef-Jan Wiggers 2026-11-10T08:39:00Z /news/2026/11/google-cloud-spend-caps/en