Ask HN: Surprise $700 Google Cloud Identity Platform Charge

Re:Ask HN: Surprise $700 Google Cloud Identity Platform Charge by orbz on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:10AM (#36969757)

Identity platform is also firebase auth if you’re using that.

General steps here are go into billing reports, find the project where that was billed and make sure it’s under your control. Might as well do an audit of all your service accounts and keys if there are charges you are sure you didn’t do.

If you are using a third party cloud administrator service they might have mis-billed you.

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Re:Ask HN: Surprise $700 Google Cloud Identity Platform Charge by gaut on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:57AM (#36970254)

Thanks. I do use Firebase Auth and I see a lot of SMS authentication requests from Pakistan, Ecuador, and Romania, but I don't think those are legitimate users authenticating based on previous usage.

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Re:Ask HN: Surprise $700 Google Cloud Identity Platform Charge by orbz on Friday August 04, 2023 @01:27PM (#37003082)

Might not be legitimate but if they’re sending SMS messages in those regions you’re getting billed a ton.

https://cloud.google.com/identity-platform/docs/admin/sms-re...

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