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I used to work at Google Cloud, I left about 2 years ago so my advice might be slightly outdated so hopefully it helps someone.

I highly recommend anyone running production workloads to get in touch with sales and meet your account manager, and customer engineer.

You also need to swap to invoice billing and sign the offline payment terms. Credit card payments leave you in a MUCH higher risk category at higher risk of suspension.

You can ask them to put a flag on your accounts so that you won't get suspended in the event of billing issues. Iirc it gives you something like 180 days and blocks any of the automated systems.

The downside is you could get a crazy huge bill if you have an account compromised or some rogue IaC code. But you can manage that with quotas mostly. And with some good negotiation you can get a rogue bill written off. YMMV.