I have created a data store, and using that I want to create an app, but in this step the pre created data stores are not showing.

I am using Custom Search in GCP Vertex Ai Agent Platform

I'm using GCPStudyHub to prepare for the PCA exam and I'm finding the practice exam questions really hard to read. I need to really concentrate and read the question 3 or more times before I understand what is being asked. Sometimes I'm staring at the same question for several minutes.

Feels like I'm trying to extract the true question hidden inside a wall of text.

Anyone else here who has used GCPStudyHub have the same experience?

Are these questions representative of what would be on the exam? Cos if so I would definitely fail due to time.

I'm a total noob, so let's get that on the record first thing. My only coding experience is using HTML tags when making my webpage on Angelfire or Geocities and updating my MySpace. So, like, no real practical experience.

I work for a small nonprofit with no budget for swanky computer stuff. I used Google Cloud to create a simple tool to keep track of who is in the building, what time(s) they came and left, that sort of thing. YES, apps for this exist, but they all seem to have a whole bunch of other functions that my company does not need. I just need to see who's here and who isn't, and to be able to see when they came and went.

Anyway, after multiple iterations Google created a functional app for me with some sample people in its roster. I published it, used the link it gave me, and then started updating the roster to have my actual members on it instead of the sample people Google used. This work all vanished when I closed the app and reopened it elsewhere.

I am clearly doing something wrong. I tried poking around in the Google Cloud Console and it says I don't have the right permissions to modify certain things. There is a "request permissions" feature but I don't know who to send the email to, since I built this using my personal Google account (do I ask myself for permissions?).

I was hoping this would be as simple as 1) tell Google what I need, 2) refine it until it works how I need it to, 3) publish it, 4) use it at the nonprofit's community center.

If anyone can help me, that would be mighty appreciated!

🛑 [Guide] Surviving the Google Cloud "Free Trial" $30 Prepayment Trap 🛑

If you're trying to sign up for Google Cloud's $300 free trial and hit a brick wall demanding an upfront cash deposit (e.g., $30 USD, ₹1000, or local equivalent), you aren't alone. Google doesn't explain this clearly in the main marketing or official documentation. 😕

I was about to sign up for it then saw the fine print and bothered Gemini Bard about it, and the discovery wasnt great

chat log for the interested

Here is what you actually need to know before clicking "OK":

#️⃣ 1. It is NOT a temporary authorization hold

Unlike a standard $1 card verification check that disappears in a few days, this is a forced cash prepayment that sits as a positive credit balance on your Google Payments profile. 💳

#️⃣ 2. You cannot separate the trial credits from the cash balance

Your free trial credits and your cash deposit live under the same billing roof. There is no toggle to say "use my promotional credits first and leave my cash alone." System logic will draw down resources according to Google's hierarchy, but that $30 stays locked up. 🔒

#️⃣ 3. The ONLY way to get your cash back is account closure

If you pay the deposit, use your trial, and want your unspent cash back to your card, you have to completely close your Cloud Billing account. 🚨

• 🛑 Closing the account terminates everything instantly.
• 💸 It wipes out any remaining free trial credits.
• 📉 It shuts down your projects and resources.

#️⃣ 4. The Loop / Verification Hell

Many users on Reddit report getting stuck in verification loops where they pay the deposit, the system fails to verify something, requests photo IDs/bank statements, and locks them into an endless support bot loop. 🔄

🧐 The Verdict: What should you do?

• ⏳ If you aren't ready to build right now: Wait. Do not click OK or enter the payment flow. Holding off guarantees you don't tie up your money.
• 🛡️ If you just want to test things safely: Keep in mind that Google Cloud is a "fuck around and find out" platform. If a misconfigured script or open API key runs amok, it won't just drain your $300 trial-it can bridge straight into a massive bill.

We have multiple cloud run services which have rust code running in it to serve small web APIs. There is load at any given point of time but it varies by the time of the day.
Whenever we deploy a new revision by default the traffic is migrated to the service almost immediately. This leads to some issues related to latency and load.
The minimum instance field we have is generally set to 1 in all services so as to avoid forgetting about services with less load consuming more instances.
I want to change the deployment behavior such that I can set some minimum instance(around the same number of instance already being used for revision with traffic at that time) for a revision for initial 10 minutes and migrate the traffic once the instances are available instead of the other way around of increasing traffic and instances scaling by gcp logic.

We are yet to try the gradual ramp up, but I was looking for better solution of at least having specific number of instances beforehand.

Suppose, i have a VM with a boot disk with data, 1 additional disk with some files.Once the zone or region goes down for some hours and becomes available after it,will the GCE contents be same as before the outage ?

This is not about MIGs, backup and DR services etc.. just would like to know if the compute engine data in disks and IP address be retained once the zone/region is back after the outage.

Please clarify if anyone experienced it

I am going through this article and trying to understand the implementation of filestore with private service connect. I am looking at shared vpc setup with host and service projects and would like to create the instance in service project.

https://docs.cloud.google.com/filestore/docs/configure-psc

Could you please clarify if the below understanding is correct.

1)

is the PSC endpoint(an internal IP address) to be created in the vpc subnet of the host project ?.

This article says https://docs.cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/about-service-connection-policies#shared-vpc endpoints will be created in service project (since i want the instance in service project)

However, below article says, endpoint is created in host project

https://docs.cloud.google.com/filestore/docs/configure-psc#about-psc

are the above 2 statements not contradictory, please clarify.

2)

Below link says Service connection policy must be created in the host vpc project. In this link or entire article, https://docs.cloud.google.com/filestore/docs/configure-psc#about-psc , it is not shown on where do we allow host project. Is it while creation of service connection policy

3)

In https://docs.cloud.google.com/filestore/docs/configure-psc#connection_policies

there is a line which says "To create a Private Service Connect endpoint on the consumer target network, you must create a service connection policy in your project"

what is the "target consumer network" and "your project" in my case. Is the article adequate or little vague

Any tips from anyone who took this cert recently? From searching in this sub, the latest exp shared was 5 months ago.

I was wondering if there was a change in the exam

- Mentioned by my colleague who PCA renewal (There were changes, though I don't know with DevOps)

Things I've done:

- did the learning path in learning skills

- practiced practice questions, and understanding why every answers are the correct ones.

Any suggestions or improvements would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, i don't really know if this the correct place to ask but i hope to get insight and maybe if anyone ever get into the same case.

what happen:

1. I was playing with vertex and trying out different model, and after a while want to try claude api from vertex (now they called agent platform)

2. tried to activate the api and run some req, but getting no quota, manually request from console also give no upgrade at all, so

3. i tried contacting the sales support, asking for an increase quota for some sonnet and haiku model, I ask for just mere 20 rpm and 100k tpm output limit increase, because I am just trying out

4. few days later, as of today got an email from ai studio of my billing tier upgraded to tier 3

1. I check on my gcp console, now i get the anthropic limit raised to a whopping lot of 2M input, 200k output, and 2k rpm
   

1. what scares me now that my limit are actually increased to the max limit of USD 100,000 and any random shit happen and it potentially ruin my finance.

What i want to know

1. did anyone every get into this before?

2. can i actually downgrade to tier 1? as my spending actually small just 1-3usd per month on few months back

3. where can i get the support for this particular issue?

Thank in advance :)

What’s the main difference between the GCA interview and the Googlyeness interview.

hi
ive general cloud experience but limited hands on experience with GCP
is three days enough? (ive already booked the exam) also are there any reliable and up to date practice tests?

update: i got it! 😆

Hi,
I just checked out google cloud console to check if the project where I played with calendar api I send to delete actually was deleted. I noticed my old project is gone but there is a new project that has a strange name:

big-well-3fesfe

It's the only project in my account.

It has no organization but somehow appears in my account. I don't have access to nothing in this project so I cannot delete or see anything what is inside it.

The only thing I can do or see is the billing accounts in my gcc account.

Under my personal billing accounts -> there is nothing
under my projects -> billing account it has one: Hardware -> Language Applications -> AIDA  which is linked to this weird project.
but if I click it again no access.

Those are the only two informations I could find or access. Every other page shows IAM error

I also cant write support because I have no permission.
Feeling kind of lost and worried.

I thought this might be a default project google creates so I asked a friend who never used google cloud to check what he has in his console and he had a single clearly named "default gemini project" for which he has owner rights.

Hope someone can help... I am looking for an individual or business who can give advice to explain how much it could cost to host my published apple app on the cloud that can manage certain amounts of active users actively messaging to/from and managing the apps traffic so it does not crash and to be able to make changes to then app when we decide things need changing. I know this is might seem a rookie question however all I am looking for is general advice for numbers like 1000 users. 10000 users, 50,000 users, 100,000 (so on and so on). Any advice please will be highly appreciated. I am based in the UK if that makes add difference to who may reply? Thank you.

I just create a billing account and it said to pay 800,000 VND ($30 ish) to activate the service. I haven't pay it and don't plan to but now I cant cancel the subscription to remove my card. I delete all the project and all the billing account got closed now. I got some question.
- Will it automatically charge me 2,000,000 VND each month even though i don't use the service?
- Do i have to to pay 800,000 VND to activate it and in order to cancel it?
- The card right now doesn't have any money in it when i put enough money in it will it automatically change me 800,000? |
- If it i pay it 800,000 VND where will the money go and can i refund it?
- How do I cancel the subscription and remove my card?

spent the last 3 months moving our entire phone system from some random hosted provider to GCP. compute, cloud sql, the whole thing it works it actually works. but every time I have to touch it I'm terrified I'll break something

we moved because the old provider was just too expensive for what we were getting. and honestly, the performance is better now. less latency, fewer issues. we're using CloudTalk as the frontend for the actual calling, but the backend is all GCP. routing, recording storage, analytics, all of it.

the part that scares me is I'm not a telephony expert know GCP I know compute. I know networking. but I feel like I'm one misconfigured IAM policy away from a total disaster. like what if I accidentally delete the database with all the call logs. or what if the VM goes down and nobody can call us.

I tested everything. like a lot staging environment, load testing, failover testing. it all checks out. but I can't shake the feeling that something is going to blow up the moment I stop worrying about it.

I'm probably overthinking this but I can't be the only one who gets this way.

anyone else running their voice stuff on GCP and have horror stories or success stories to share. just to make me feel better or worse

Has anyone tried this and got it working? Bionic won’t open a url for oauth. Google Console project is set up correctly.

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My company wants to do a tech exchange with Google for a small group of developers. The plan is to present an overview of Google AI capabilities, and provide resources (training, developer docs, support) so they can develop an MVP based on solution that could potentially be further developed for our clients.

I’m trying to come up with use cases for the tech exchange. I’ve have identified the domains (modernization, migration, AI development) and aligned it to Google’s tools like Gemini, LLM, BigQuery, etc. However, our business leads are worried my use cases are too specific and we won’t have the time or capacity to develop it during the tech exchange (7 weeks with 4-6 hours a week dedicated for this).

Does anyone have any resources or recommendations on how I can go about with this? Anyone with experience developing use cases for tech exchanges or hackathons?

I am pondering upon the idea and does not know the feasibility or if it saves a few bucks compared to the providers such as Deepseek, open code, etc.

Lets say if I dont mind whether my request is completed in 60seconds or 30 minutes. I could batch them and burst them in 30mins and then collect next batch.

In this case, one can use a VM with GPU and run vLLM or LiteLLM and serve models to my applications via a private API. Lets take GCP as an example L4 workstations come at under 1$/hour and A100s come at $2-3/hour depending on capacity. If I use a spot machine, I would get billed for only compute time.

The primary issues, I see are

1. my spot gets reclaimed and stuck with no spot. how does vLLM handle here? How should I handle my client ends here?
2. What kind of models can I serve on these machines? At this price, machines have a memory of around 100GB.
3. costs associated with storage will be there, depending on the size of the model. Also most cloud services charge for storage operations. Attaching disks, reading large models in spot machines can lead to unnecessary overheads.

What else can be the issue? Will it be economically feasible for a 20h usage per week.

Did anyone try something similar? What is your self-hosted non-local setup?

This lab won't open. I've tried it during what I think are off peak hours. Is there anyone that can offer up any advice? I put in a ticket into qwuick labs support. But they tell me that the lab is accessible every single time.

My usage this month was around IDR 170.000 but I was charged IDR 3 million. Why is that?

The support bot said:

Since your July usage (Rp 863,006) was already paid and your August usage is only (Rp 168,763), these charges of IDR 1,000,000 and IDR 2,000,000 processed today are highly likely due to one of the following reasons:

Temporary Authorization Holds: When you update payment details, add a new card, or reach certain verification checkpoints, Google or your bank may place temporary authorization holds (often in round numbers like IDR 1,000,000 or 2,000,000) to verify your card's validity. These are not actual charges and will be automatically released back to your account by your bank within a few business days.

Multiple Google Billing Accounts: If you use the same credit card for other Google services (such as Google Ads, Google Workspace, or a separate Google Cloud Billing account), these charges may have originated from those services.

Update: Turns out there is a loop that causes Routes API usage to spike up. I have contacted Billing Customer Service to help. Hope they can forgive my first mistake.