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Using Google Cloud Platform for personal use?

I've been learning a lot about GCP lately and am starting to think about using this for some personal things such as

  • Firestore as a personal database for automated daily logs of personal stats (habits, finances, weight, etc).
  • Using cloud storage as long term storage of backups and other personal files
  • Cloud functions to interact with my iOS shortcuts

From my calculations the free tiers of these products would last me a very very long time, and if I ever do have to start paying for the services it would be pretty cheap. I would also have a cloud function to pull my billing account in case of being hacked and racking up a huge bill.

Is it okay to use GCP for personal use or am I missing something? I don't want to go down this path if it will be problematic.

Solution

  • There is no restriction as such that prevents you from using for personal use. So you can keep using it for free until you hit the limit.