But now, Google is taking away that advantage from us, it seems. I received the following email today in which they've made it clear that the standard free tier is no longer available. In fact, you'll now have to link your credit card to the system as Google Cloud Build service will be used to deploy the apps which is a chargeable service.
With the globally changing attitude that prioritizes the interests of shareholders and the ever hungry crony capitalism machine, this was perhaps destined to happen sooner or later. There is no such thing as "do the right thing" after all!
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This sounds like entitlement. The service was free, when it never had to be in the first place. Now that it will no longer be free, for reasons unbeknownst to us (perhaps they dealt with abuse of the free tier), you are going to go as far as to say that "There is no such thing as 'do the right thing' after all"?
I'm also absolutely not a fan of neoliberalism and late-stage-capitalism However, the sort of melodramatic wording that you use in your post is not helping the cause, because it is too easy to refute.
And even if you have to link you credit card, there is enough free build time that I have not yet build up any costs on my development and small projects.
Your title is incorrect. The free teir is still there, its just the build process that is changing. Read the email again.
It is worth noting that the three run-times mentioned in the email (Python 2.7, Java 8, PHP 5.5) all reach their end-of-life within the next two months. There will be limited or no security updates after that, so developers should upgrade to newer versions if at all possible.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/java-se-support-roadmap.html
https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
Correction: PHP 5.5 stopped being supported over three years ago. Please upgrade if you are still using it.
Read the last line in that screen shot...
The free tier will stay with Cloud Build. Plus you/re not forced to use CB with all runtimes. Sounds like the only one try appease shareholders with clickbait is you.
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