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Comment by bcjordan | Hacker News Reader

Can we update the title to say Free trial? The minimum tier is still $40/month (though that is a huge improvement and makes this a reasonable option for startups).

Was really hoping for something that could scale to zero. Better than no change!

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Yeah this article is just pure spam. Google Cloud has always had a max $300 free trial and the change here is now you do Spanner woooptie wooo. The offering is not at all like AWS free tier.

Google has permanent free tier that is perpetual too.

Stuff like the free VM is perpetually which to my knowledge has not equivalent aws freebie

That doesn’t change the fact that the current title that Spanner has a “free tier” appears to be wrong.

Sure, but GP made it sound like GCP doesn't have a free tier comparable to AWS which is simply false.

Yeah, we (Googler here) know, but it's not our post, so we can't edit it. :D Best we can do is hope people read the comments (weird thing to say on the internet).

You can email hn@ycombinator.com and request a title change. I have seen this done before.

TIL! Thank you, email sent.

they dont have any free tier database as far as i can tell

firestore / firebase have a free tier

You’re right, sorry about that. My non-english brain got it mixed up when I read the tweet here [1] as he previously talked about a free tier. Unfortunately I can‘t edit.

[1] https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/15704512806651494...

Fixed now. Thanks!

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