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I'm not an infrastructure engineer - could someone explain the benefits of using quotas for something like an authentication service. It feels like something that shouldn't really need a quota - unless the idea is to monitor services that have run amok.

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Any service running way over quota could break all other services. (at the end of the day, resources are physically limited to what you have in your datacenters)

Quotas are one way to isolate this impact to that service in particular.

Of course, when it's a critical service like authentication, it hardly isolates anything... but I can't think of a better alternative.

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