During an onboarding exercise you launch a script that tries to provision 150 vCPUs in the us-central1 region. The command fails with the error Quota 'CPUS' exceeded. You already have Owner permissions in the project. The CTO wants to understand why Google Cloud sets such default quotas in every project. Which explanation best describes the main reason these quotas exist?
They reserve unused capacity for redundancy, ensuring every project can fail over to another zone during maintenance events.
They satisfy regional data-protection regulations by capping how many resources a single project may deploy in one location.
They protect the overall Google Cloud user community by limiting unexpected spikes in consumption from any one project.
They enforce each customer's committed-use discounts so that spending cannot exceed budget forecasts.
Google Cloud uses quota limits to prevent any single customer-intentionally or accidentally-from consuming a disproportionate share of shared infrastructure. By throttling sudden, large spikes in resource usage, quotas help maintain service reliability and fair access for all customers. While quotas can incidentally help control costs, are unrelated to regulatory compliance, and do not function as high-availability reservations.
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