Cost and billing
Quota
What is quota?
A quota is a ceiling on a countable resource — concurrent jobs, concurrent endpoints, stored bytes. Quotas protect both the account and the platform, and exceeding one should be a clear, typed error rather than a queue with no end.
Quotas and spend limits solve different problems. A quota bounds concurrency and footprint; a spend limit bounds money. An account can hit either without approaching the other.
The failure should be immediate and legible. Silently queueing work that has exceeded a quota converts a clear error into a mysterious delay.
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