Google eventually forgave the bill in Part 2: https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/ https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/ > Google let go of our bill as a one time

Google eventually forgave the bill in Part 2: https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/ https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/ > Google let go of our bill as a one time gesture! Thank goodness. And it looks like it had to do with not understanding the API / system on the first order, IMO. This hit me hard a few months ago with CloudFront invalidations on AWS. I check billing and the things at 30usd in a single day, from a norm of <1usd per month, so it's showing a 13,000% increase (this is for documentation of open source projects). I'm writing their support and at the mercy so to speak - technically I ran up the bill. I ended up paying up, but I secretly hoped I'd get some AWS credits for the projects, heh Aside: Amazon has some nice features for rule-based alarms on accounts so when you spend more than X dollars, you get an email.