Hi Lawrence, Thanks for the feedback. We are definitely aware of this feature missing in the Google Developers Console (formerly the Google Cloud Console). We are working on addressing this, and hopefully will have this fixed soon.
Thanks for using our product, and keep the feedback coming. Kind Regards, Michael Thomsen Product Manager, Google Developers Console On Monday, April 14, 2014 8:48:22 AM UTC-7, Lawrence Mok wrote: > > Since Google started migrating App Engine Billing to Google Cloud Console, > there are no longer an option to set a daily budget. (reference: > https://developers.google.com/appengine/pricing#change_budget). I am not sure > if this is intentional or just a miss, but this is very important to me as a > developer / start up founder. > > One of the major reason I choose Google App Engine is that I can set a fixed > daily budget so that I won't get billing surprise because of any unexpected > event (e.g. sudden spike of visits / DOS attack - which happened to me before > but I was denied for a refund because Google told me an DOS attack causing > the reach of my daily budget is not an DOS attack (which I think it's > nonsense because if there is no daily budget, a scalable service can > virtually give you an unlimited bill), luckily it's the daily budget that > protected me from a potential bankrupt) > > I hope someone in Google could clarify this ASAP, I believe many developers > are concerned about the risk of billing surprise and would take this as a > major factor of deciding which cloud service to use. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
