Customer having to request for refund has been documented in their SLA, e.g. https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla Having s

Customer having to request for refund has been documented in their SLA, e.g. https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla Having said that, if Google wants to delight customers, they should give a free tier bonus to all customers for a certain period, but such a thing cannot be fair to everyone.