[walki]

I have personally used a large number of cloud compute services: AWS, packet, Alibaba, Digital Ocean, nimbix, Azure, Oracle, ... I still use all of these services from time to time. If you carefully look at my list of cloud vendors you realize that there is only one of the big cloud vendors missing: GCP. Why?

When GCP came out I wanted to switch from AWS to GCP because AWS was costing me a lot of money and GCP was marketed as being cheaper. So I went to their website and signed up. Or at least I tried to sign up, because GCP did not care about individuals, you had to be a company! No other cloud vendor I tested had this requirement! So up to this date I have never tried to sign up with GCP again.

[packetslave]

Let me guess, you're based somewhere in Europe? I don't remember the specifics, but the "business only in Europe" thing was 100% the fault of the EU's (tax?) laws. Not sure if that ever got resolved, actually.

[walki]

Yes, I am based in Europe. If this was EU's fault then why didn't any of the other cloud vendors have this requirement?

[remus]

I guess it must have done as Im based in the EU and was signed up for a personal GCP account at one point.

[merb]

that was sily because they only asked for a company name but you could've entered "Individual" inside the box and they would not care!

[speedgoose]

That's a bit risky. Google is well known to close accounts and have no humans you can contact.

[murgindrag]

This is one of the many things which prevents me from building to Google.

1) I don't want them closing my account. Doing development is the sort of thing which looks A LOT like suspicious activity, for Google's buggy anomalous behavior detectors.

2) They close accounts on working businesses all the time.

[walki]

They also asked for the VAT number of the company...