Hello Community Support
I signed up for the Google Compute Engine and did not realise that I would be charged $1000. The payment did not go through as there is not enough money on my credit card and I cannot pay the balance.
I didnt want to phone Google Support as they may hassle me for payment
Can you make any suggestions for a way to resolve this?
Thanks
sas
Google provides free support for Google Cloud billing questions - contact them.
Google Cloud Billing Support
I signed up for the Google Compute Engine and did not realise that I
would be charged $1000.
Google Cloud will automatically charge your card when you reach thresholds. The default for new accounts is $100.00 USD. Were you charged $100.00?
Additionally Google implements quotas for Compute resources. What type of resouce did you create that incurred $1,000.00 in charges? This would have exceeded your new account quota limit, so I wonder how you accomplished this ...
There is something odd about your first credit card charge being $1,000 USD as you should have received a number of charges for $100.00 each. After a credit card payment fails, you will receive billing payment notices. None of this would have happened mysteriously unless you do not read your email or SPAM filters blocked the notices.
Always take the time to learn what cloud resources cost. Understand that pricing, billing, resources and usage are important items not to be overlooked. Google, like most companies, is in the business to provide services and products that customers want and to make a profit while doing so.
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I've got a E2 Micro instance running on Google Compute Engine at the moment.
Although it won't be using bandwidth quickly (expecting a maximum of 600Mbps), it will probably be using a lot of bandwidth in total (expecting around 10TB a month)
Are there any limitations to how much bandwidth my VM can use in total per month, or am I only going to be limited by speed?
You will be limited by your credit limit. Review network pricing. Internet egress bandwidth is apx $0.12 to $0.23 per GB. 10,000 GB is $1,200 to $2,300 per month.
Search for "Internet egress rates" at this link:
Google Cloud networking pricing
Note: for new accounts, IIRC your payment method will be charged at $100.00. Double-check how your account is setup.
For example, if your Cloud Billing threshold is $100.00, and you have not yet incurred any costs for the month, you might see a message that says Your entire $100.00 payment threshold is available.
or
"You'll be charged when your balance reaches $1000.00 or 30 days after
your last automatic payment, whichever comes first."
Find out your Cloud Billing account type and charging cycle
My google calendar usage already exceeded the "Queries per minute" quota, which is 10,000. And my application hits 20,000 requests per minute for the moment, so I'm expecting to increase the quota to 200,000. When I tried to do it I was asked to create a billing account, which I'm going to do, but I need to know the pricing before that.
Despite my effort I was unable to find the exact information on pricing. Please help me understand the pricing involved with increasing the quotas of google calendar API.
To give more information about the application, this is a backup application where we backup all the Google workspace data including the calendar events using service accounts. So all the payment for calendar service will be done by my company.
Thank you.
I would like to see my current bill on my GCP project. I tried using the Billing API and the Budget API but they just give me meta data information. No bill with costs on it. I would like to know the current bill cost for the month.
I know there is a Pub/Sub way to do this, but I don't want to get notified of the billing cost. I would like to see the bill cost when on demand.
At this moment as per the list of available 'Cloud billing APIs', GCP don't have such an API to view usage/total cost of a project. Here is the Feature Request for this.
As per the PIT there is no such API that would provide real-time billing cost and this is Feature Request as billing Engineering team working on this.
About a month ago I opened an AWS account to try out Amazon's own tutorial for EC2 services, only to give up after encountering an error.
Today I accessed my account once again, only to find out three tasks have been running in the background the whole month. My Billing Management Dashboard shows a hefty total in the upper right, but in the "free usage" tier the only exceeded entry is S3 Puts, of about 10%.
I can't seem to find a soruce anywhere in the documentation explaining whether the total billing in the upper right takes into account the Free Tier or not. At the end of this month, will I be billed entirely or only the % difference? I'm more or less okay with the latter, but I can't really afford the former.
I've obviously opened a support ticket right away, but since I'm on the basic plan I'm afraid they might answer me after the current bill becomes active.
Thank you for any answers.
You will be billed only for the % difference.
All services that offer a free tier have limits on what you can use without being charged. Many services have multiple types of limits. For example, Amazon EC2 has limits on both the type of instance you can use, and how many hours you can use in one month. Amazon S3 has a limit on how much memory you can use, and also on how often you can call certain operations each month. For example, the free tier covers the first 20,000 times you retrieve a file from Amazon S3, but you are charged for additional file retrievals. Each service has limits that are unique to that service.
Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/free-tier-limits.html
I was attracted by the AWS free tier to give EC2/S3 a try. However, one thing I'm worried about is the payment process. There's quite a few management menus and it doesn't seem entirely transparent when I would break the free usage tier (or if I decide to pay, when I break that usage tier).
You can download .csv usage reports, but I wish the billing/usage monitoring was a little more interactive so I don't get unpleasantly surprised. Does anyone have experiences EC2, is there some aspect of the management interface that makes this a easier/less worrisome?
You can monitor your AWS resource usage and the resulting fees here:
AWS Account Activity
https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/
You can see how current the report is at the top. In my experience it lags by a few hours, which is pretty amazing if you think of how many different customers AWS has and how many little things they have to keep track of to calculate your fees (e.g., every disk I/O request and network byte sent).
Click "Expand All Services" to see the usage/fees broken down even more.
Note: You don't "decide to pay". You already gave AWS your credit card and agreed to pay according to their fee structure. If your resource usage goes over the free tier, AWS will automatically charge your credit card at the end of the month. Monitor the above page regularly to make sure your charges are accumulating as expected.
Use AWS Billing Alerts to notify when you exceeds the fee tier,
If you currently use the AWS Free Tier, you can set a billing alert to notify you if you exceed the free tier by setting a threshold of $0.00.
refer to,
AWS Billing Alerts