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I am from India .I used my credit card to sign up for Google Cloud Platform Free trial and 300$.
But It charged me Rs. 50 extra while verifying along with Rs. 2.
Why in the name of God, Google is doing this.
Charging money for free trial.
Its not fair.
Guyz help me.
In the official documentation says this:
After signing up, you might notice a $0-1 transaction from Google, which is a pending authorization request between our billing system and the bank that issued your credit or debit card. Authorizations might be converted to local currency by your bank, and these transactions might appear as pending on your statement for up to a month. Please keep in mind they are authorization requests only, not actual charges.
So, I think all of those charges are only authorization requests not real charges. Because 50 + 2 Indian Rupee equals 0.819 US Dollar.
If you aren't sure about this, I recommend you to talk with your bank or you can also contact to Google Cloud Billing Support
I had similar issue, when contacted GCP support, they said that it will be held as pending transaction at bank end and will be credited to customer's bank account within 45-60 days.
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For practicing Kafka, I have created a free GCP account.
I have given my account information and money is deducted from my credit card.
When I try to launch my Kafka application page it is again redirected to account information page and it is asking me for payment. I have made the payment for almost 10 times. Kafka application is never launched.
The same happens when I try to link a billing account to my project or perform anything from the GCP console.
I don't understand what went wrong. Can someone please guide me as I am new to GCP as well.
You can try to change your payment method (they vary depending on the country you live in) and of that doesn't help (or you are not able for some reason) I recommend contacting Google Support - in case of any billing issues it's free of charge.
You can contact GCP Billing Support via the chat and explain what's the issue.
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I've taken a free trial for Google Cloud Platform and would like to cancel free trial for my GCP account. Need help please.
Open the Google Cloud Console in your browser.
Go to IAM & Admin -> Manage Resources (link).
Select your project.
Click the Delete button.
Once you have no projects left, wait a few minutes and then close the Billing Account.
Create, modify, or close your Cloud Billing account
The last step is to optionally delete your Payment account. Only do this if you are not using a Payment account with other services such as YouTube, YouTube TV, Google Pay, etc. From the following page you can delete your credit card.
Payments & subscriptions
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I just started using Amazon web services, and I am using free tier version.
Due to some bitter experiences in past, I made budget to control price AWS charge me if I by mistake go beyond free tier limit.
I budgeted this to $1, so if the price goes beyond that, I get an email.
Is there any other filter/budget conditions I should implement so that AWS will not charge me anything? I am using AWS just for learning purpose.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to set a hard spending limit. This is discussed also in this question and in this one.
However AWS offers various other tools, such as budgets, for managing your costs.
Extensive documentation about cost management can be found at the following resource:
https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/
There is also a page about specifically how to avoid charges with AWS Free Tier: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/free-tier-charges/
In general, I regularly get the feeling people overestimate the capabilities of the AWS free tier version. For any kind of production environment or meaningful computation you should expect actual charges to occur.
If it is just for learning purposes, make yourself familiar with what exactly the AWS Free Tier allows. Other than that, your budget is already a good way of monitoring your cost limit, also take a frequent look at your AWS Billing Dashboard.
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I want to register on the site for free trial, but as I have seen, they want from me a credit card, unfortunately I do not have a credit card (because the conditions of my country to obtain it are impossible), is there another way to register without credit card ?
So far as I know You can get a prepaid virtual credit card and register for AWS cloud
But for the Google cloud you will need a original credit card. These prepaid credit cards wont work
Just in case: if you are affiliated with a public research institute, you can indeed register without a credit card. See section 2.4 in of the AWS Research Cloud Program handbook version 1.2.
Unfortunately there is no way to sign up without a credit card. One possibility would be to find an American or citizen of the UK willing to open the account on your behalf with their own card, maybe pay them with bitcoin or another digital currency.
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Would it be more cost effective for a small business (around 25 concurrent users) to buy a PAF database and code it up ourselves or use a Postcode service such as Postcode Anywhere?
The Royal Mail site is really confusing! http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services/address-management-unit/address-data-products/postcode-address-file-paf/prices
We operate 24 hours a day and at any one time, we have between 1 and 25 users doing postcode searches. We are currently using a PAYG service and it is really pricey so we want to buy a PAF database and create our own. I don't understand the pricing on the link above (basically we're looking at something in the region of £2 to £49,500?!)
Also, what do you actually get with a PAF database? As in what kind of files do they send you, is there an API and do you pay a one off fee or an ongoing fee? Do you have to agree to the delete the data once you stop paying royal mail?
Thanks
For the time it would take to code it up yourselves, it would be more time and cost efficient to go with someone like Postcode Anywhere. They'll also provide guaranteed first class service along with service updates to improve service.
We use them on a lesser-scale (after moving from QAS which were crap in comparison).
Have you investigated pricing with any providers yet - if so, what's it coming out at?
I can't add anymore to the answer by Alan, which describes how the files are provided and how it needs to be done.
You get a bunch of flat files and need to use the PAF programmers guide to help build yourself a system
http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services/address-management-unit/address-data-products/programmers-guide
See also
www royalmail.com/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/01_tell_me_the_basics.pdf
www royalmail.com/pafnews
You're probably better off buying some package www poweredbypaf.com/
You don't need to purchase the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF). There are lots of API's available.
getAddress.io is the only one I've found that's free:
https://getAddress.io