How do I put a limit on my monthly payment amount

Question

Hi!

I want to set up my account/web app so that amount spent during a month wouldn't exceed a limit of, say, $50 under no circumstances.

(I want to run several small web utils, few users are expected. So in case of normal usage it shouldn't exceed the free part of my subscription. but I'm worrying about kind of DOS-attacs which can make my monthly payment pretty significant)

I'm an amateur in Azure and its billing/paying etc. but as far as I've googled: I have a pay-as-you-go type of account (the free azure account after the probation period) , which doesn't have possibility to just set such limit on a subscription level.

So I guess my solution is somwhere in area of alerts.

What would be a correct solution for this?

Answer 1

@Алик Ким Welcome to Microsoft Q & A Community Forum. I understand that you are trying to set spending limit so that it wouldn't exceed your expected budget and as you said the spending limit isn’t available for subscriptions with commitment plans or with pay-as-you-go pricing. For those types of subscriptions, a spending limit isn't shown in the Azure portal and you can't enable one. See the full list of Azure subscription types and the availability of the spending limit.

For your requirement, I would suggest you to create budgets which allows to manage costs and also alert based on the budget amount you have selected while creating the budget. For more information, on how to create budgets, you can refer to this document.