GCP keeps incurring charges!

[Akshay C.S.]

Hello all,

I'm new to GCP, and just shifted from Azure. I've been a free user for a while and really liked GCP, hence decided to try other services which require billing to be enabled.

I had linked my card a few days back to try out those services. I utilize App Engine for application back-end and haven't been using other services.

A thing that I noted is that I'm keep on incurcharges even though I'm not exceeding free quota of GAE. I don't understand how.

The first thing I did was to set up a spending limit of INR 0, so that I won't cross the free tier.

Next, I had specifically set the daily spending limit inside the GAE to USD 0, so that it too won't exceed the free quota.

However I'm surprised to see the charges on Transactions getting higher every day (so far it's just been around 3 days).
I may have turned on the daily spending limit inside GAE, a day after I added my card, so that might have incurred a little amount. But I'm pretty sure that a day had passed, and I had seen the billed amount increased a little more today, compared to yesterday considering both limits are in place.

Here's what it looks like, in the Transactions:

vs 

  Yesterday                                                                                                                     Today  

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Does anyone have an idea, why/how this happens? To prevent further charges, I unlinked the billing from the project.

Thanks.

Regards,

Akshay.

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Akshay, 

You are entitled to a maximum limit of $300 during free trial. Expenses are displayed as you noticed. Your free trial is paused when you reach the $300 level of charges, and you have the option to upgrade to a paid account, should you so wish. The trial is free and you will not be billed. You may get more detail by reading the FAQ page, specifically the reply to the "Do I pay anything for the free trial?" question.