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I do consulting and use GCP on behalf of clients so I’ve been through this process of creating a new account about half a dozen times now, and your experience i
by phphphphp 4y ago
I do consulting and use GCP on behalf of clients so I’ve been through this process of creating a new account about half a dozen times now, and your experience is mine, every time. Blocked, submit information to verify identity, hear nothing back, chase, eventually get chastised for chasing in the wrong way / submitting to the wrong people, and eventually manage to get approved.
Google are famous for bad support so it’s not surprising but it’s perplexing that it is so consistently bad. I continue to use GCP though and know I’ll someday be paying for trusting Google despite constant reminders not to.
- mrj 4y agoAnd yet they wonder why they've failed to surpass AWS and have fallen to #3 in the cloud space. This whole thing and the stories from others have made me so nervous that I'm moving my personal stuff off of Google, too. Future tech decisions I make will likely exclude Google. They don't seem to understand how devastating this will be for them.