alt Hacker NewsGoogle Cloud is also the scariest because of how much damage it can do and how bad their payment system can be.
I recently loaded up on prepaid api credits for gemini and it somehow triggered some billing shenanigans in my linked accounts where it said I had a negative balance (from the credits), and they were going to discontinue my services. I had to reset some settings to sort it out, mainly using their chat ai and mine (because theirs gave me right status info, but wrong conclusions).
It's pretty messy across like aistudio.google.com, and their typical console, and google workspace business account. I'd be so fucked if they froze my account, I'd rather just pay openrouter to access credits in the future.
> Google Cloud is also the scariest because of how much damage it can do
Google is the only cloud platform I'll not just never use, but personally discourage anyone from using it.
Simply because there have been way too many horror stories on here about people who had gotten their personal gmail accounts frozen for whatever BS reason - and absolutely zero recourse. With any other large service you can always get ahold of a human, with anything tied to Google it's impossible and even raising a major stink on HN or "legacy media" often does not help.