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Reminds me of my experience with GCP... "here are 300 bucks of credit so you can try out absolutely nothing interesting because we set all relevant quotas to 0.

Reminds me of my experience with GCP... "here are 300 bucks of credit so you can try out absolutely nothing interesting because we set all relevant quotas to 0. Good luck trying to get any support, but if you really want, you can try to contact our business sales teams for very serious businesses that will just ignore you"

S201 3y ago
The zero API quota on GCP hits close to home for me too. Last year I wanted to write a little script that would use the YouTube API to find video URLs from a particular channel. The details on it aren't important; it was something I would only use locally for personal purposes and did a single API call per day. After wondering why it kept returning a 401 I finally figured out that the API quota was set to zero out of the box and that I had to fill out some form with a bunch of ridiculous questions like "what will be the impact to your business if your quota is not increased?" Uh, I won't be able to use the API at all because it's currently zero? The end result was that it took about two weeks of back and forth with Google Support trying to make them understand what I was using the API for before they finally relented and increased the API quota to a non-zero value. I get that Google is probably somewhat protective of the YouTube API and I'm just some Joe Blow looking to query it for non-revenue purposes, but if I were a business it would have been an insanely terrible experience to get set up with a third-party API. Compared to every quota increase request on AWS which is either self-serve or something a support ticket handles in a few hours typically.
- HansHamster 3y ago
  For me it was the GPU quota, but the form was probably the same and assuming that I am running a business so I should provide the name and a link to the homepage or something like that? In the end I never received a reply and gave up after a while. Needless to say, I will not give them any of my money because they clearly do not want it... A friend did the same to play around with the larger Nvidia GPUs and never ran into any issues, but my almost 20 years old google account is not good enough?

S201 3y ago

The zero API quota on GCP hits close to home for me too. Last year I wanted to write a little script that would use the YouTube API to find video URLs from a particular channel. The details on it aren't important; it was something I would only use locally for personal purposes and did a single API call per day. After wondering why it kept returning a 401 I finally figured out that the API quota was set to zero out of the box and that I had to fill out some form with a bunch of ridiculous questions like "what will be the impact to your business if your quota is not increased?" Uh, I won't be able to use the API at all because it's currently zero? The end result was that it took about two weeks of back and forth with Google Support trying to make them understand what I was using the API for before they finally relented and increased the API quota to a non-zero value. I get that Google is probably somewhat protective of the YouTube API and I'm just some Joe Blow looking to query it for non-revenue purposes, but if I were a business it would have been an insanely terrible experience to get set up with a third-party API. Compared to every quota increase request on AWS which is either self-serve or something a support ticket handles in a few hours typically.

HansHamster 3y ago
For me it was the GPU quota, but the form was probably the same and assuming that I am running a business so I should provide the name and a link to the homepage or something like that? In the end I never received a reply and gave up after a while. Needless to say, I will not give them any of my money because they clearly do not want it... A friend did the same to play around with the larger Nvidia GPUs and never ran into any issues, but my almost 20 years old google account is not good enough?