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Mind nuances when you stop Google Cloud project from bleeding money

Mind nuances when you stop Google Cloud project from bleeding money

If you do not care about how much money you spend on your Google Cloud project then this post won’t be interesting to you. If you do, you might find the information below useful. Google Cloud documentation gives examples of the automated cost control responses. It describes an option to send a notification message to PubSub in addition to the email each time the billing budget alert is triggered. The specific example that stops the usage shows a Cloud Function (code in NodeJS and Python) that disables the billing account on the project.