Spend cap budgets are now available for a limited set of services (Preview)

## Feature Feature **Spend cap budgets are now available for a limited set of services (Preview)** Available in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages)for[eligible services](https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-spend-caps#eligible-services), you can now configure a[**spend cap budget**](https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-spend-caps)to automatically pause usage when your spend exceeds the budget amount you set. Spend caps are a cost control mechanism. A spend cap is enforced when usage costs exceed your budget target amount. When enforced, any new request to the eligible services, within the specified project, are paused and no further usage costs are accrued until you manually lift the spend cap. Spend caps typically use _estimated costs_ to trigger the alerts and caps, enforcing a cap much faster than the _actual costs_ are processed and appear on billing reports. Even though faster than reports, the enforcement of spend caps isn't instant and any cost overages are billed as normal. For more information about spend cap budgets, see: * [How spend cap budgets work to help you control spend](https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-spend-caps#how-spend-cap-budgets-work) * [Configure a spend cap budget](https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-spend-caps#configure-spend-cap) * [Lift an enforced spend cap](https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-spend-caps#lift-spend-cap) * [Limitations of spend cap budgets](https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-spend-caps#limitations)