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One annoying (but perhaps understandable) thing of GCE is that in the EU you need to have a VAT number to use any of it, even if only for free tiers.

Uh what no, well maybe it depends on the country ? As a Frenchman I've had a personal GCP account for years.

It's true that my Google account is a Google Apps (an old free one :D) one, but I never entered a VAT number.

EDIT: seeing neighbour's comment, when I say "years" that's probably 2 years :)