Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

Google cloud suspended all our projects due to the billing issue in their system they had.

Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday.

All the account payments were made and the billing cards are valid. There are no outstanding bills.

Never use GCP for production.

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Previous month billing didn't went through. Not sure if this was due to the billing outage google had (https://status.cloud.google.com/products/oLCqDYkE9NFWQVgctQTL/history) or financial transaction issue, however we went ahead and made a manual payment covering all the outstanding amount + extra. Despite the payment made, about a week+ later we suddenly started receiving threatening emails "Your Projects are at risk of suspension". Edited and updated the billing cards. Opened a billing support request clearly mentioning this is a production environment and all the bills are paid. They were "investigating" the issue and assured the project will not be suspended.

Backblaze has previously locked our account on a saturday.

They claim we were putting too much pressure on their cluster.

They could've locked the 1! token that was causing 90% of the load, but they locked the whole account which was used by 10 different apps for a veriety of purposes causing unecessary downtime in some production workloads.

Also the workload has been quite consistent for days/weeks, so they could've detected it earlier and/or address it in a better way.