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That's valid feedback. GCP's free tier is more valuable and more flexible than AWS, but only for 2 months instead of 12.

There are also perpetual free tiers for several GCP services - AppEngine, BigQuery, Firebase.

No comments on your specific feedback, but please do join GCP NEXT March 8-10 for some exciting updates [0].

(Work on Google Cloud, NOT in marketing :))

[0] https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/

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The tricky part of a 2 month free trial is that it's not nearly enough time to explore the offerings unless you're a company that's already got a product ready to go and staff to migrate it full-time (and I assume the latter is exactly who you'd want to charge full price to). I took advantage of the 2-month GCP free trial, and ended up using 1 GCE instance, 2 Cloud Storage buckets, your cloud storage webhosting & DNS, and....that's it. I don't even really know what other services exist. It takes time to program things...by the time you get around to realizing that there are other GCP services that may help your project, the trial's already over.

Since there's a dollar cap as well, I don't see the problem with extending the trial out to a long calendar time-period.

Cloud Datastore has a perpetual free tier, too: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ :)

(I work on it.)

Thanks, I forgot.. there are probably others I'm missing :/

Anyway to get a discounted Cloud Next ticket? I'm here in San Francisco, but even the $549 (one-day) is out of budget. Would really love to go. I am a GCP user and have a ops/devops consultancy startup (https://elasticbyte.net).

no livestream?

they should have one up closer to the date.

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