[mastef]

The weird part is that a Firebase plan for one of my side-projects suddenly auto-updated to the paid "Firebase Blaze". The email notification stated : "Your project was upgraded due to activity in Google Cloud"

"A user has set a new billing account for your project in the Google Cloud Platform console. This initiated billing for your project, resulting in an upgrade to your project's Firebase plan."

Issue with that is that I never made such a change. So how could "A user" have made this change?

The resulting frenzy in inspecting admin and user-logs ( and checking if my account was hacked ) just found a new billing entry called "Google Maps Platform Transition Account" that was suddenly linked to this Firebase project.

And I don't even seem to have permissions to inspect it.

Very confusing indeed.

[dmortin]

AFAIK people who did not set up billing get this transition account so their access is not cut off completely.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?#!topic/firebase-talk/jWRCd...

[mastef]

It seems it was an unintended consequence of the Google Maps change and many users were affected and confused by it [1]. If you add a Billing account to a cloud project, Firebase will automatically upgrade you to Blaze. Since Google Maps added a billing account automatically to your Google Cloud account, that auto-upgraded your Firebase plan.

The response from the Firebase team [2] was that no additional charges would occur based on this incident, and they've opened an incident report [3] in their dashboard.

- [1] StackOverflow Thread with users facing similar confusion https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51373671/project-upgrade...

- [2] Official Firebase response https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-US#!topic/firebase-ta...

- [3] Firebase incident report for issue "Firebase Users who use Maps API get auto-upgraded to Blaze" https://status.firebase.google.com/incident/Console/18016