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Can we update the title to say Free trial? The minimum tier is still $40/month (though that is a huge improvement and makes this a reasonable option for startup

Can we update the title to say Free trial? The minimum tier is still $40/month (though that is a huge improvement and makes this a reasonable option for startups). Was really hoping for something that could scale to zero. Better than no change!

choppaface 4y ago
Yeah this article is just pure spam. Google Cloud has always had a max $300 free trial and the change here is now you do Spanner woooptie wooo. The offering is not at all like AWS free tier.
- Havoc 4y ago
  Google has permanent free tier that is perpetual too. Stuff like the free VM is perpetually which to my knowledge has not equivalent aws freebie
  - nrmitchi 4y ago
    That doesn’t change the fact that the current title that Spanner has a “free tier” appears to be wrong.
    - DangitBobby 4y ago
      Sure, but GP made it sound like GCP doesn't have a free tier comparable to AWS which is simply false.
    - GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
      Yeah, we (Googler here) know, but it's not our post, so we can't edit it. :D Best we can do is hope people read the comments (weird thing to say on the internet).
      - jhgg 4y ago
        You can email hn@ycombinator.com and request a title change. I have seen this done before.
        GabeWeiss_ 4y ago
        TIL! Thank you, email sent.
  - plopz 4y ago
    they dont have any free tier database as far as i can tell
    - wstrange 4y ago
      firestore / firebase have a free tier
config_yml 4y ago
You’re right, sorry about that. My non-english brain got it mixed up when I read the tweet here [1] as he previously talked about a free tier. Unfortunately I can‘t edit. [1] https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1570451280665149442 https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/15704512806651494...
dang 4y ago
Fixed now. Thanks!