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He spent a few credits for the learning, and then spent $1000 (cash and credits) to leave it up in production for a year.

I guess he could have spend the money in training and would be better off.

There is no replacement for hands-on experience.

I agree, the title of this article is absurd. I feel like he could have moved his sites to Cloud Run or Functions, also on GCP, and paid pennies.