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Ask HN: Surprise $700 Google Cloud Identity Platform Charge

by gaut on 8/2/23, 11:44 AM with 3 comments

I got a surprise $700 charge on my Google Cloud billing account yesterday for Identity Platform. I don't have it enabled on my account, and I have never been charged for this before. I contacted support, but that will supposedly take 48 hours. Has anyone else run into this before? Is there anything else I can or should do on my end to remedy this as soon as possible?

  • by orbz on 8/2/23, 12:10 PM

    Identity platform is also firebase auth if you’re using that.

    General steps here are go into billing reports, find the project where that was billed and make sure it’s under your control. Might as well do an audit of all your service accounts and keys if there are charges you are sure you didn’t do.

    If you are using a third party cloud administrator service they might have mis-billed you.