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Spending Limit or Maximum Cost CAP for Azure

As a customer, I really care about Spending Limit or Spending CAP feature of Azure.

How does Azure prevent some evil attack to my Azure sites causing charge a large billing of Credit Card?

For example, it should automatically shut off or temporary disable my site when a certain dollar amount has been reached.

Is this feature in the RoadMap of Azure?

Or is there anyway to control my maximum Spending Limit of Azure?

Thanks.

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Mike shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
planned  ·  AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded  · 

Quick update,

We have been considering all of the risks and investigating the steps required to ensure we implement this feature with high positive impact and low to no negative impact.

After this investigation we have decided we will enable Pay-As-You-Go customers the option to configure a spending limit on a Pay-As-You-Go subscription, with appropriate safeguards and measures to prevent both service abuse and production service failure.

We have not yet finished determining the details of what this feature will look like, nor do we have a timeline for release, but we have heard your voices and have added this feature to our backlog.

Thanks for your continued feedback,

-Adam (Azure Billing Team)

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    They have now something call "Alerts" but that will not cut it for me. It may be too late when I get the notification.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I will not use Azure until this feature is implemented. Will look at AWS in the mean time.

  • Colin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    What a disappointment this feature has not been enabled yet. Four year after the update. Really makes it impossible for developers learning azure (and who will then punt Azure at their work places) as well as small to medium size business from using azure. Seems very short sighted to me, especially when the reply from Azure Billing Team has recognized the need.
    I just created an account and have no needed to cancel it again.

  • zach commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is there a timeline for this? Can you enable spending limits on Dev/Test subscriptions and/or EA subscriptions? Right now I do not see a way to disable resources such as the various Cognitive Services APIs. We would really like to have this feature so we can ensure our application teams don't overspend.

  • bui xuan hung commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I really want to use Azure but I can't give you unlimited access to my bank account.
    You're forcing people to go elsewhere, this can not make business sense.

    Microsoft should also be embarrassed by how long this has been "Planned".

  • John commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ditto; this is the only thing stopping me using Azure.
    Such a simple feature, approaching 7 years since it was raised and 4 since it was "Planned".

    Do Microsoft read these at all?

  • Blaise commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Missing this feature is really the only thing stopping me from using Azure right now.

  • Eduardo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Man, what a huge development cycle you guys have there.

    I wonder if you even look at this forums. Lots of people complaining about this missing feature, stating that they drop their subscriptions (or don't even consider to use the service in production) because this feature does not exist.

  • Ryan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    A lack of spending limits is preventing me from exploring Azure since my trial is expired. One month isn't enough time to learn much and I can't take the risk of authorizing unlimited spending on a pay-as-you-go subscription to continue learning. There's too much of a risk that I'll make a mistake and be responsible for costs that I can't afford.

    I'm disappointed today because I found an awesome blog post with an ARM template that had me excited about trying out Azure Functions, but I'm not willing to add an unlimited spending subscription to my account to try out something that I expect to cost less than $1.

    Please give an update on this. It's been 3 years and spending limits have been enabled for several other subscription types. Is this still planned?

  • Greg commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any updates? Without this feature, there is too much downside risk to using Azure. One misclick could cost 1000’s of dollars.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is there any update on this for EA and CSP? We had a customer run up a $12k bill the other day that could have been easily avoided!

  • John commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I really want to use Azure but I can't give you unlimited access to my bank account.
    You're forcing people to go elsewhere, this can not make business sense.

    Microsoft should also be embarrassed by how long this has been "Planned".

  • Joel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This exists for MSDN subscriptions so you have the technology. Why is this not be implemented?

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