we are developing services on IBM Bluemix and are working in multiple Bluemix orgs. We’ve noticed recently that the SendGrid free plan no longer is available (isn’t listed in the Select Plan dropdown). We see only Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. Is this a bug? Was the free plan intentionally removed? #BenRondeau et al.
Thanks!.. Duane
The SendGrid free plan in Bluemix is temporarily unavailable for maintenance per the Bluemix status page:
http://ibm.biz/bluemixstatus
Here is the maintenance text for your convenience:
Maintenance: SendGrid service - US South and United Kingdom regions
The SendGrid 3rd party service has been removed from the catalog
temporarily for maintenance. This page will be updated when that
maintenance is complete. Users can not create new instances of the
service during this time. Existing instances will continue to work as
expected.
Update 2016-02-19 19:03 UTC: Maintenance of the paid SendGrid plan
offerings is complete and those plans have been restored to the US
South, United Kingdom regions. The team is working to restore the
free plan as soon as possible.
I'm not sure how the integration is with Bluemix, and if there's an interface within orgs for SendGrid that you're referring to, but you can easily get it the old fashion way: from the settings page on SendGrid's site. I made a free account just yesterday and am currently using it today without being billed.
If you need help navigating their site, they have a page dedicated to their free plan.
Just click the Try for free button. It takes you to a modal page where you can add your credentials and sign up. :)
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I had a simple Google Cloud Storage Account (for the last 5 years) that I had a small online backup service offering for my clients.
About a month or so ago I began getting messages about my "Trial" was expiring ... I ignored it mostly since I had not setup a trial anything. Then about a couple of weeks ago, my backup service quite working with the message I had no cloud account.
I went back and found the emails and clicked and "Upgraded" the account (which again I have no idea why since I have been paying Google Cloud Storage for years) and the backup began to work again.
But now when I go to look at the Project it states I have no permission for anything. I had access until this garbage happened ... of course there is absolutely no way to get support from Google.
I have tried to see how to give me admin access again, but there does not seem to be any way to do this ...
BTW ... I am the only login
Help please
about a year ago, some requirements were changed with GCP and storage. as such, you will need to ensure you have an attached billing account and manager access on the accounts that you are using to back up with. Typically these are service accounts with service credentials.
You can find the IAM roles here: https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/iam
you will have to ensure you are in the correct project, then select the user that you are using to authorize with the backup service (or potentially create one).
Then you will want to edit the roles this account has with any of the following, or their subset permissions:
Storage Admin
Storage Transfer
Storage Object Admin
I also highly recommend getting a Google/Firebase technician to look at your GCP project, you can contact them through support here as they can debug if there are any backend issues. Just clarify that your project may not be a Firebase project. They are often more helpful than typical Google Support.
https://firebase.google.com/support/troubleshooter/contact
Update:
If for some reason your account was hijacked or migrated to an account you don't have access to when you should. contacting GCP support is your best option, they are able to restore access, roll back changes, and otherwise assist with any potential lockouts you have.
I want to use Microsoft Security Code Analysis in Azure DevOps is there any cost involved with it.
Please refer to this doc: Onboarding and installing
If you have one of the following support offerings, contact your Technical Account Manager to purchase or swap existing hours to get access to the extension.
If you do not have one of the mentioned above support agreements, you can purchase the extension from one of our Partners.
Based on the doc, you need to purchase for this tool. So it is not free.
You need to contact the corresponding email to obtain the specific payment method
I created a free service that permits to control a French set-top box (which provides different services like TV, playing media, Netflix, …).
This set-top is a 3rd party product for me because I do not own the material, but because the constructor provides an API I've been able to create a service from end-to-end that controls the box. The box provider doesn't have any service published on Google to control their box and they do not plan to do it in the future.
I tested everything with my own Google Home account and everything is working fine. I'd now like to deploy/publish my service to all my users in Google Home… While I'm filling all the steps to publish my project, it's asking me to complete a form (Smart Home Certification form), but at the top of the form it says: “if your action is non-commercial (personal/hobby project) or you are implementing only the SCENE trait, do not submit the form.”
My action is non-commercial (it's a free service) and I'm maintaining it on my personal time (hobby project), so I'm not supposed to submit the form. But if I don't, then I cannot have my service published/deployed?!
Is it possible to publish a Smart Home Action without being a company that sells products/pays a developer to maintain the service?
For your information, I already published an Alexa Skill for this service 1 year ago and it works very well. I was waiting for Google to publish the Channel trait in French to release it. Right now I have to ask my users to create applets in IFTTT to make the service works with Google, which is not optimal and very painful…
I tried to reach to the ha-certification Google team but no answer after 2 weeks… So maybe someone in the community would already have experimented the same case as me!
Thanks
After sending emails around, I finally got an answer from a Google employee:
due to our new policies, we are now not launching any partners who are not tied to commercial products
I am using Microsoft Bing Maps for my mobile app project. The API which I am using is REST-Imagery Metadata. It shows on my account that it is billable after 25 hits. 490 hits have already occured. If the API is billable, how the billing is happening and what is the criteria for payment? Someone please clarify in detail.
It's buried in the Terms of Service - but you still get a certain number of "billable" transactions for free provided you're making a mobile-app, even a commercial app, if it's available for a non-Microsoft mobile device platform (i.e. Android and iOS). I imagine because it's free advertising for Bing Maps when users would otherwise be using rivals Google Maps or Apple Maps respectively.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/product
(c) Limited website and mobile app use.
If you are using the Services in an Application for commercial, non-commercial (except for Education or Non-profit use) or government use under these TOU, without entering into Standard Terms, then your Application must be available on a website or a mobile app running in a non-Microsoft Windows operating system, and must not exceed (i) 125,000 cumulative Billable Transactions (which will be free of charge) as defined in the Documentation, per calendar year or (ii) 5 queries per second, calculated as the sum of client-side and server-side queries. If your use will exceed these limits, please contact us to license additional transactions
It looks like Microsoft will deactivate your account or block further requests once you hit that limit of 125,000 transactions/year and then you'll have to register for paid access and provide payment method details.
If you are using a basic Bing maps dev account than you will get 125k free transactions per year. Those billable transaction in usage report will be billed from your free limits. You don't have to pay anything until you exhaust the free limits. I found the below text from the Bing maps documentation.
"Only billable transactions count towards the free-use limits for Basic keys, and Enterprise keys are only charged for billable transactions. Non-billable transactions do not incur charges and do not count towards free-use limits. To determine if your application will qualify for free use and for info about licensing and transaction limits, please see the Bing Maps licensing page and review the Bing Maps Terms of Use."
-Bing maps dev center
early on during the setup of my VSO account, i either missed the region setup field or probably ended up with the default, which turned out to be South Central US.
i would like to change that field to West US. however, when i go to the named VSO account (https://username.visualstudio.com)>Control panel>Settings>Region, there does not seem to be a way to make the change.
in Azure, the Region information is displayed under the column titled "Location" and all other Azure services i use are configured as West US.
how do i change the Region/Location setting for my named account?
The last I saw (mentioned in here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/10/28/visual-studio-online-is-in-europe.aspx) this not currently possible but is planned for the future. Blog does say it is possible for support to move to a different region but it looks like they will judge on a case by case request.
Currently there is no such self-service to change region in VSTS "Settings" page. But according to this post, there is a official channel to do such change by submitting a service request to Microsoft at(https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/support/).
VSTS support group will contact account owner based on your request and do the change offline until the mentioned self-service become available online.