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Azure (and I'm sure other cloud providers do) allow you to set email notifications for when your bill goes over a set amount so you can stop it before it happens.

If you're using a cloud provider I'd highly recommend setting one of those up.

In Azure it's under your Subscription and then Budgets

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AWS can send you alerts when it looks like you will go over your budget for the period, before you're way over your projections, which is a nice feature.

I truly believe they want you to use a lot of their resources on a consistent, long-term basis; they don't get long-term value from people having short, one-off anomalies, so budgets and monitoring are aligned with their customers - just not total cost of ownership calculations :)

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