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Honestly just scared GCP might one day cancel my account and I'll lose all my data unless I meet their demands This hasn't been emphasized enough in these disc

Honestly just scared GCP might one day cancel my account and I'll lose all my data unless I meet their demands This hasn't been emphasized enough in these discussions. Once you're in the cloud, you're dealing with computers as a "utility". Or are you? When you buy electricity from your local utility, you don't just lose it in the middle of some afternoon for some unknown reason. There's a clear and established procedure, supervised by a Public Utilites Commission. You aren't forced to resort to sending emails and receiving some idiotic canned response from a bot. "Sorry we have reviewed your case and our decision is final. By the way, we don't tell you what you did wrong. Fuck you. Ha. Ha. Ha." I don't know if Amazon or Azure are better than Google. But I wouldn't trust Google with my worst enemy's data.

AnonC 6y ago
> You aren't forced to resort to sending emails and receiving some idiotic canned response from a bot. "Sorry we have reviewed your case and our decision is final. By the way, we don't tell you what you did wrong. Fuck you. Ha. Ha. Ha." Incidentally, this is exactly what happened to me on my very first attempt with Digital Ocean this year. Just an autoresponder that kept sending the same email with no way to reach a human. And this was just after creating an account and going through an payment authorization process. No money was lost, but I’m not touching a system where humans refuse to get involved. Edit: To add a comparison on this aspect, Hetzner wanted some verification for a new account and handled it quite well with humans involved (and responsive).