[lioeters]

I use DigitalOcean and not GCP/AWS, personally and professionally, for the exact same reason: they provide a way to not give the company a "free for all" access to a bank acccount.

It's too bad that DO only allows pre-payment via PayPal. (I recently lost access to my PayPal account due to them having a wrong phone number - and I can't login to correct it, nor have any contact for support.) I'd love to remove PayPal as a dependency, and pay DO directly from a bank - but not give them permanent permission to withdraw from it.

It's a clear dark pattern that GCP/AWS does not provide a simple way to prevent such unexpectedly huge bills.