I’ve been running my startup on Google Cloud for the past 5 years. Initially got around 100K credits for the first year and have been steady spending $5-10K/mo since - not huge spend, but not nothing either.<p>In the early days, quota increases felt like a formality - put in a request and they’d get approved a few minutes later. Sometimes it was a bit of a puzzle (you can’t increase X unless you also know to ask for Y) - but never a roadblock.<p>Over the past 2-3 years, I’ve starting having the experience of having a quota increase denied and having a helpful account manager insist we jump on a call to get the quota increase. I’m not talking about anything crazy either - like maybe going from an existing 72 vCPU quota to 144.<p>Doesn’t make me feel very confident that I’d actually be able to use the cloud to actually do cloudy things in a pinch, like bursty on-demand scaling
They broke a fresh startup of mine with a similar thing. Working with their support afterwards was a nightmare and I never got it resolved. I love Google Cloud but that turned me off forever.