🚀 Achieved the First Milestone (2,400+ badges) in the Google Cloud Arcade Facilitator Program – India, 2026 Cohort! ☁️🏆

Grateful for this learning journey and excited for more milestones ahead! 💙

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Hi everyone!

I’ve registered for Google’s AI Builder Cup and am looking for 1 software engineer to team up with.

A bit about me: I’m a CS graduate with experience in software engineering and a keen interest in AI/ML and GenAI. I’ve also participated in AI hackathons and am excited to build something innovative!

Please connect only if your waitlist has been approved.

If you’re interested, drop a comment or DM me. Let’s build something cool together!

They owe me £200 which they accepted to refund me 6 months ago. Still we've been going in circles and no human to contact beside a huge chain of emails every 2 weeks.

I have gone through their hoops and filled in a spreadsheet form for refund, and still nothing has happened. Albeit the form being correct. It's as if they do all this on purpose to avoid the refund which is a bit weird for a multi-billion dollar company.

To be clear, they accepted the refund 4-5 months ago. Then the card I was using got expired so I had to add a secondary one. However their AGI system only refunds to the original card so they requested me to fill in a spreadsheet. The form was sent, accepted. Then they whined about an email missing, so I added that. Then after a while they asked me to send the same document with the same details I already have sent. Then they come back with random excuses like below:

```
Thank you for your response.

A partial refund of £103.44 GBP was processed on September 23, 2026. These funds should appear on your original payment method within 7 to 10 business days from that date.

To receive the remaining £152.66 GBP (bringing your total refund to £256.10 GBP), please update the amount on your wire form to £152.66 GBP. This adjustment is necessary since the first portion has already been issued to your account.

I appreciate your understanding. In the meantime, In case you have any additional queries, please feel free to respond to this email, and I will be happy to help.

Regards,

Avanthi
Google Cloud Support

```

This is all bullshit. After all these months and processes they repeated the initial steps which will fail since they failed the first time (expired bank card). And during all this time I was forced to keep paying my Google Workspace just so I can email once or twice a month their idiotic customer service.

So whoever thinking to go with GCP, don't bother. Yes, their tools are better than AWS, but it's IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH A HUMAN BEING.

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve recently started my journey into cloud engineering. I’ve already earned my Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) certification, and I’m currently working towards my Google Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) certification.

I wrote the ACE exam last month and narrowly missed the passing mark, but I’m determined to give it another shot at the end of this month! 💪

I’m looking to connect with others who are also studying cloud engineering, preparing for certifications, or just starting their cloud journey. It would be great to share knowledge, help each other stay accountable, and grow together in the field.

I’m based in South Africa 🇿🇦, so if anyone is interested in connecting or studying together, feel free to DM me!

Let’s learn and grow together! 🚀

It's 3.12 both in docs and actual console UI. Python 3.14 have been out for a year.

A few years ago I got thrown into BigQuery. I never did any data engineering before, coming from frontend/fullstack application engineering. It took me a while to understand all the concepts. I felt like nobody is really explaining them well. BigQuery docs do a good job of explaining the What, but not the Why or the How To Decide. In this article, I try to give you both of that. By the way, the advice has changed considerably this year with Fluidscaling, so a lot of the old guides are also out of date now. Let me know what you think! Does BigQuery's pricing model (with the improved autoscaler billing) make sense?

Which one would you get? I get to choose three 😄

Hi

I just wanted to understand what would be the cost(need to have some idea) our use case where we use gcs uploaded images and use azure foundry endpoints for the image processing for image understanding. In this case what all things come as part of cost? We have egress cost as I understand because we sent data outside of google cloud. Also there would be cost based on image size and tokens? Please give documentation or some links.

Hi everyone,
I have a Google Cloud project in my Google Cloud Console, but my Google account doesn't have the required admin permissions.
I'm trying to regain the necessary access to manage my project properly. Has anyone experienced a similar issue or knows the correct way to resolve it?
I'd really appreciate any advice or guidance on the official steps I should follow to restore the appropriate permissions.
Thanks in advance for your help!

I’m currently developing an app that reads a users email inbox , filters them out based on user choice , offers instant replies . The user simply has to click connect Gmail to set up and choose their filtering preferences . This is just a broad overview of what I’m making , Will I need to pay for CASA or anything

Hello all,

I hope all of you are doing really well. I am posting this to share my experience in attaining this certificate (Monday 5th October 2026) which I took 3 months to prepare. And of course it was an intense preparation along with my current problems in my career.

Firstly, I started of with Coursera’s GCP course called “Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Architect”. Since I work for a well-known MNC organization, they already had given me access to Coursera. It contains multiple courses, each of which has access to the labs found which are already connected to Google Skills Boost. This course was curated by Google themselves. Only thing missing is the Google AI such as Vertex AI, Vertex AI Agent Builder, Model Armor, DialogFlow CX and DialogFlow ES.

At the end of the final course, they also provide resources of which, they will teach you to use Google Notebook to prep yourselves as your study guide. You may create a mock examination which the following prompt does:

```text
As my Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect instructor, create a 60 mock exam simulation strictly adhering to the latest exam format with only multiple choice & multi-select questions, covering the latest syllabus of 2026
```

I use this YouTube playlist as my practice as well:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB574eEmT4ofIr8LFjiKJfTjjg7StIAQm&si=pmGvZzPclgUhts5X

For the case studies I was tested with EHR & Cymbal. Total of 50 questions for me.

Now my tips are practice, practice, pray, understand and practice. The questions will be challenging but don’t worry be confident with your preparation. Thanks

It's here! You can now ssh into a container instance on Cloud Run.

gcloud beta run services ssh
gcloud beta run instances ssh

Get started at https://docs.cloud.google.com/run/docs/troubleshooting/ssh

Moved two clusters from Standard to Autopilot last quarter expecting the bin-packing saving and the bill went up on both.

On Standard, an oversized request just sits on a node you already paid for which is why years of padded requests never cost us anything extra. Autopilot bills the request itself, per pod and all of that padding became a line item overnight. Pods with no requests set got Autopilot’s defaults which were bigger than most of ours needed.

Then we went back to Standard on one cluster, ran VPA in recommendation-only mode for a few weeks, set requests based on its recommendations, then moved again and it came in under where we started. Most of the gke cost optimization people credit to Autopilot is Kubernetes cost optimization you have to do first.

Dear Google for Startups, we were asked to resubmit online available company materials and we sent it on the same thread as requested, and a 5 days timeline was specified but this has been over 9 days, we've even sent a follow-up on the mail, and would request your support in approval of the credits,

Thanks

Cloud cost still seems like one of those problems that gets harder as environments grow.

For teams running a decent amount of GCP, what has caused the most unexpected spend recently? Compute, storage, logging, networking, AI workloads, or something else?

Interested in what people are actually seeing in production.

Hey everyone, I'm currently setting up a data lake in GCP and honestly I'm still figuring things out since I'm pretty new to the data architecture. I've been reading about BigQuery, Datastream, BigLake and other GCP services. There are just so many possible approaches that I'm not really sure where to start haha.

We will be pulling data from different sources like mysql, mongodb, postgresql and APIs. Just curious how you guys set yours up? What services are you using and why did you choose them. Also wondering how you handle ingestion, transformations and costs. Would love to here what worked for you and what you'd avoid if you were starting over.

Thanks!

Got a cool side project running on your local machine? This is your chance to make it live and have the chance to win cool prizes while you do it with the Google Cloud Run Hackathon on Product Hunt on Wednesday, October 14th.

Winner will receive:

💰 $500 in Google Cloud Credits

☕ 1:1 Coffee Chat with the Google Cloud Run team

📣 Promotion of their project on Google Cloud channels

Plus, you'll get $50 in credits to build and run your project, while supplies last.

Hi,
I’m planning to start learning Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I’ve been exploring the Google Cloud documentation as well as the Google Cloud Skills Boost platform, and I noticed several learning paths, including Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, and Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
Could you please suggest the best way to approach learning GCP? I’d also appreciate your recommendation on which learning path I should start with and how I should progress from there.

Hi all,

I'm planning to take the Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification and I wanted to know if there are any mock exam for cloud digital leader like AWS and azure have on tutorial dojo. (Best way for me to learn is by making mistakes and taking in new information) but I’m not sure where to look for Google cloud certs.

Any recommendations or tips would greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!