Or do what every other industry does, and trigger a conversation. Or even don't let you store more, or restrict access. Why the need to delete?

'By the way old chap, you have gone over your storage limit. Do you want to buy more or delete some stuff?'

>By the way old chap, you have gone over your storage limit. Do you want to buy more or delete some stuff?

Why does my AWS counselor sound British. Am I in eu-west-2?

Why shouldn't it, its just a machine? Wouldn't the world be better if these messages varied a bit!

That's what alarms that you set up are for.

If I reduce my gdrive subscription they don’t simply delete what I have over the new (lower) limit. There is a grace period and it’s standard practice. Why should it be any different in this case?

I've heard that Google keeps Google Drive data around for up to two years if your subscription expired and your account is over quota. They could certainly do the same with other cloud storage.

If only we had the technology to exempt storage from spending limits.

As if that would solve anything? Depending on use, storage could be the largest line item (storage across databases, VMs, object storage).

If only there was a way to pause all the other stuff and only let storage to keep costing you ...

There is, and it would cause an outage while still not achieving the supposed goal of not going over budget. You don't want to be killing your customer's production over potential misconfigurations/forgotten budgets. Especially when you'd continue to bill them for the storage and other static things like IPs.

It's so much easier for them to have support wave accidental overuses.