Lost my google my business login9/7/2023 ![]() ![]() When the cheap, small, always on instance received all the work output from the giant beast server, it would then send a power down command using the aws cli. Since I was charged for each power event, I wanted to minimize the power state changes and just queued up the work that needed GPU acceleration until there was enough to justify the cost of at least an entire hour and two power state events. I had a rudimentary batch job system running. I came to write a very similar story involving a lazy error on my part (no error checking on a shutdown ec2 instance script, resulting in a 64 Xeon, 8 Nvidia Tesla server running 24/7 for about a month) and an astronomical bill resulting. Turns out, no, they are very different, but you need to dig deeper to understand their differences. Tech is not the only place where you see this false equivalence. There are advantages and disadvantages sure, but providers are different. If support matters to you (like when things go wrong) then take that into consideration. Microsoft and Amazon support are well known to be excellent. Google support is well known to be rubbish. In reality of course big companies are not the same. Google has bad customer service, therefore so do Microsoft and Amazon. ![]() You are attributing outcomes (as being the same) as being the result of some common factor, when the cause is a very different factor. You are experiencing a false equivalence here. They are by far the worst of the big tech companies when it comes to developer support. Please stay far, far away from Google services of any kind. This hurts much more than losing a job for me. I feel like I'm a man with literally nothing to lose and I can't live with myself anymore. My whole life has done a 180 in the past week. The end result is that I have apps I spent years of my life building and which currently feed me to only be rendered unusable because some AI at google thought my Google Pay needed additional verification. Unlike Amazon who offers phone lines for resolving billing issues, Google does no such thing. So now I can't pay for GCP usage (firebase) and all my authentication, database, cloud functions, are all not usable since the service is suspended. I go ahead and add my drivers license and fill out their form, but while they verify details they suspend your ability to pay for any Google services. Now I login to find out my Google Pay account is 'temporarily suspended' since I need to verify my account. Not to mention their chat support is useless and doesn't have any power to look into cases. The GCP team couldn't help me since it was an issue with Google Pay. This was done as they need to temporarily suspend me to 'verify' me. Long story short, Google froze my Google Pay account which is used to pay for anything related to Google services, including GCP. I operate multiple apps which were providing my entire livelihood, and I wake up one day to realize it's all gone. ![]()
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