Data and AI struggles

1,758 problems · 344 companies

Cloud and tool cost

Vertex AI bills are surprising and hard to attribute

2 posts from 2 people2d activeFading, +0 this weekunverified

Posts per day

Posts per day2 posts, Sep 15 to Nov 10

The posts behind it

Redditr/googlecloud · u/Spirited_Maximum762Sep 17

Google Cloud charges I did not knowingly authorize were sent to collections - how can I get a manual review?

Hi everyone,. I’m looking for advice regarding an unexpected Google Cloud billing issue that has now been escalated to collections.. I am a student and was experimenting with Vertex AI . I did not knowingly intend to incur the resulting charges. Google Cloud later identified...

Redditr/googlecloud · u/DependentRevenue2048Sep 15

Google Cloud bill of ₹24k+ sent to collections - student/hackathon project. What can I do?

...no evidence of that. I just want to resolve this honestly and understand my options.. Any advice from people who have dealt with Google Cloud billing/collections would be greatly appreciated..

Companies and products named

2 posts
About this problem

Evidence

2 posts from 2 people in 1 place, about 2 a week over 3 days. Mostly on r/googlecloud. Tools named alongside: Google Cloud.

Frustration Frustration 0 of 3· Seen on Reddit

How it was grouped

Posts that state a pain and match the "cloud-bill" rule about Vertex AI. First post Sep 15, 2026, latest Sep 17, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method

The same problem elsewhere

Google Cloud bills are surprising and hard to attribute

10 posts from 10 people on Reddit, Community forums.

Cloud bills are surprising and hard to attribute

6 posts from 6 people on Reddit, GitHub issues, Mastodon.

AWS bills are surprising and hard to attribute

5 posts from 5 people on Reddit.

Microsoft Azure bills are surprising and hard to attribute

4 posts from 4 people on Reddit, GitHub issues.

Other Vertex AI problems

Vertex AI users keep asking for help

Top post: "Check your Vertex AI bills: Google is secretly breaking your KV cache (and how to request a refund)", one of 5 posts from 5 people on Reddit, GitHub issues.

Vertex AI outages and slowdowns disrupt work

2 posts from 2 people on Glyph Ibis. Unverified.

History

First seen with 2 posts.

Sep 26, 2026