Google Cloud Platform Blog: $50 Credit for new billing signups and budget changes

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$50 Credit for new billing signups and budget changes

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

At Google I/O this year, we announced that App Engine will be going out of preview before the end of the year. One aspect of leaving preview is our new pricing model. As promised we have started providing the ability for any application Admin to compare their existing cost to their new costs in the Admin Console (under “Billing History”). Now that you have an idea of what changes may impact your app, we’ve also written an article to help you optimize your application. We know many of you would rather code than think about your budget and billing settings, so to help with the transition we are extending a one-time courtesy credit of $50 to all free Apps that sign up for billing and all paid Apps that modify their budgets between now and October 31, 2011. Once you have signed up or made changes to your billing settings, a $50 credit will appear in the “Billing History” area of the Admin Console for your application. For more information on how to enable billing or change your settings, please see Billing and Budgeting Resources.

This is a big step for the App Engine Team; thank you for your continued support and feedback, and we hope you find these tools useful as we get closer to our goal of leaving preview!

Posted by the App Engine Team