Any cloud provider accepting prepaid?

Posted by zerogvt on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:11AM
from the self-post dept.

I've been trying to create a test account with AWS and Google and they don't accept prepaid cards or paypal (Amazon does not even accept their own card!). I don't feel very well tying up my credit card on a test account (a lot can go wrong and I'd like to have the peace of mind that in worst case my prepaid is drained and that's that). Do you know any provider that accepts prepaids? (Note: I'm mostly interested in testing out kubernetes deployments). Thanks

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Re:Any cloud provider accepting prepaid? by agussell on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:12AM (#18568512)

I have a debit card (VISA) and they accept it. Previously Google did not accept it, only credit cards. I don't know about prepaid but I think the reason you want to use one is why they don't accept them.

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Re:Any cloud provider accepting prepaid? by zerogvt on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:23AM (#18568565)

So they won't accept it because it is convenient to skin you if your usage runs amok rather than get what you can actually pay and terminate the service there. The more I rub shoulders with the cloud the less I like it.

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Re:Any cloud provider accepting prepaid? by agussell on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:27AM (#18588960)

Anyway, in most cloud services you can allocate a maximum budget each month, so you don't risk spending more that you want.

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