The number of people that still trust google not to screw customers over is amazing.

They got you into their tech by offering something for free - now they're upping the price to match the leading competitor (in cloud that is).

Better than getting you into their ecosystem and discontinuing a service I suppose.

I hope this backfires on them and they provide it 'free forever' as they would have received a lot of customers drawn in from their free GKE control plane offering