Budgets and allocation

Overview

Budgets create operating boundaries; they do not guarantee quality or business value.

• Define organization and project ownership.
• Use request ceilings for high-volume paths.
• Alert before exhaustion, not only after denial.
• Document showback or chargeback allocation rules.
• Review budget changes alongside quality and latency evidence.

Production checklist

• Keep credentials in a server-side secret store.
• Set explicit cost, latency, privacy, provider, and regional constraints.
• Capture route and evaluation evidence for incident review.
• Test timeouts, cancellation, fallback, and denied-policy paths before rollout.