Have you ever negotiated Google cloud or others for more credits?

2 points by realmech 1y ago ↗ HN

I'm the cofounder of an AI Startup. We are burning quickly through our Google Cloud credits that we got from the startup program ($250k over 2 years).

We're trying our best to drive down costs with spot instances, optimizations, etc. but short of those, has anyone ever successfully negotiated for more / discounted credits? We're inclined to stick with GCloud but may migrate our training and inference over to AWS or others temporarily in order to defer cloud costs.

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remram 1y ago ↗

You mean like committed use discounts?

QuinnyPig 1y ago ↗

It can be done, but usually as a part of a longer term commitment deal. They (understandably) don’t want to give you a pile of credits just for you to flit off to AWS when they’re exhausted.