I have found I can override the daily usage quotas on AWS Gateway by performing the following steps:-
1 - Create a key and assign to a usage plan with a daily quota assigned;
2 - Immediately go to the usage plan -> API Keys then click on Extension for the key you created;
3 - You should see the "remaining requests this day" filled in , then click save.
4 - Run some API calls through that exceed the quota.
In this scenario I find the quota is not being observed.
If I perform step 1 and then run some API calls through then edit and save the Extension settings then it works fine it seems to be only when I save the Extension dialog before running any API calls through.
Thanks