Google, like AWS and Azure, is 'only pay for what you use'. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to put limits in? Or to choose a 20/50/100 dollar per month plan?
I've seen many companies user "terminator" scripts that shutdown/delete things that aren't tagged as "keep" or something like that, though only in non-production accounts. The budget alerts from the cloud providers can be useful too (AWS recently released cost anomaly alerts).
We're trying to tackle this problem with https://github.com/infracost/infracost from another angle for people who use Terraform: show a cost estimate in pull requests so the user understands what costs money, and roughly how much it costs. I hope that helps clarify "only pay for what you use" without trawling through cloud pricing pages.