Can I use the Google App Engine without activating my free trial?

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I just want to use the free tier (doesn't matter if I would have to put in my credit card) without 'wasting' my free trial -- I think so much money for trial could be spent better elsewhere...

If I visit the GCP Dashboard now, I see a box saying "Sign up for a free trial and you'll get $300 in credit and 60 days to explore Google Cloud Platform." and buttons Dismiss and Sign up for free trial. However, there are still cards (in the main Dashboard space) cards saying Try Compute Engine (button Get Started), Try App Engine (button Get Started), create a GCS bucket...

Thanks for any reply!

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2 Answers

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The free trial is available to test paid Google Cloud Platform services.

If you don't need to use any paid services at the moment, you can just ignore them. You can just go ahead and deploy your app engine app. This will remove all the getting started links from your app's home dashboard :)

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Trying GAE is independent of the GCP free trial. Or at least it was ~1.2yr ago when I started playing with GAE. At the time GAE wasn't included in GCP, it had its own console/etc. I ran into the free GCP trial later on and started/wasted it accidentally when checking out a Cloud Storage related tutorial (yep, a Create your GCS bucket button!)

You might be OK as long as you don't use Cloud services (like Cloud Storage or Compute Engine). If you do want to use those I'm unsure if you can actually "delay" starting the free trial for later :)

If you're willing to enable billing you should have no problem - you can always set your daily spending limit to 0 so that you don't actually pay (but that won't help with the 60 days trial lifetime).