billing - App Engine Backend Instances

[Gerardo Barbosa Lima]

hey folks,

I have some pet projects on GAE (standard), only intended to learn GCP. When my trial period finished, though, I was charged with 158.472 hours (!!) of App Engine Backend Instances for one of those non-used projects. As I think that's a lot of cpu time, I tried to figure it out how the free tier was overrun.

On API & Services, I found a CSV with `time` and `compute` values, that I assume that's were the cpu usage should be found, but it only goes back 1 month and the billing refers to older data and I don't know where to find it. Also, this cpu time is not broken by any service ...

Does anyone could, then, help me understand how the billing works? If there are Google employees here, I would like very much to check my personal situation. I'm not saying anithing wrong was done, but I feel a bit lucky I created a low budget for this project otherwise I could have lost some money here and, mainly, it's very unlikely I will deploy an real application in a service I don't understand how it's charged.

cheers,

Gerardo

[Harmit Rishi (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello, 

Thank you for using Google Groups!

Looks like you would have to contact the Billing team for the issues you have described here. Due to that, you may feel free to contact the Billing team for your inquiry here. Additionally, you may include your concerns discussed on this thread on your ticket to Billing support as well. 

I hope this helps.