GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances

Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by jmb12686 on Monday August 19, 2019 @10:54PM (#20743472)

This definitely limits the usefulness of Google's "always free" tier. This will x2 some bills I have for small personal projects, though will still be a bit cheaper than an AWS alternative after the 12 month free tier.

Sigh.. I suppose it was a matter of time before they figured out the pricing loophole. Back to creating new Google accounts every year to get the year of credits...

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by cameronbrown on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:25PM (#20743584)

> Back to creating new Google accounts every year to get the year of credits...

I'd be careful doing this. You wouldn't want their automated systems to ban all your accounts + personal one by association.

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by rgoulter on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:29AM (#20743851)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/b10c71/google_play... And apparently the company's developer account if you get associated with that account.

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by JamesBrooks on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:48PM (#20743673)

I don't know - seems like a really good opportunity to finally kick that Google habit like I've been meaning to do ;)

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by unixhero on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:11AM (#20744234)

Google - Like nicotine.

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by atomi on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:28AM (#20743844)

I will second this wholeheartedly - please proceed Google.

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by atomi on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:59PM (#20749194)

In regards to the downvotes:

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by SanchoPanda on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:58AM (#20747684)

It's terrifying that this joke, like all good jokes, has a kernel of truth to it.

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:26PM (#20743590)

> Back to creating new Google accounts every year to get the year of credits...

That seems really dangerous (read: good way to get all your accounts banned)

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by jvolkman on Thursday August 22, 2019 @04:34PM (#20772122)

They've since updated the language to keep free tier IPs free:

> Note: Starting January 1st, 2020, GCP will introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances that don't fall under the Free Tier. You will not be charged for other publicly addressed resources, such as forwarding rules.

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