Google can suspend or cut off your access to its cloud services in several situations, including if it believes your use poses a risk, if you violate the agreement, if legally required, or even if you simply have not used the services for more than six months.
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Suspension without prior notice can cause immediate operational disruption for businesses that depend on GCP for production workloads, and the 'risk' standard gives Google significant discretion in making that determination.
Interpretive note: The 'risk' standard for suspension is subjective and its application in practice may vary; the document does not specify whether advance notice is required in all suspension scenarios.
This provision means your Google Cloud access can be suspended at Google's discretion for broadly defined reasons, including inactivity over six months, with potentially immediate effect and significant consequences for applications or data hosted on the platform.
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"Google may suspend Customer's use of or access to the Services or pause Google's performance if: (a) Google reasonably believes Customer's use of the Services or Customer's use of Google Accounts poses a risk to the Services, Google, or any third party; (b) Customer is in breach of the Agreement; (c) required by law or at the request of governmental entities; or (d) Customer has not accessed the Services for more than 6 months.Excerpt from Google Cloud's Terms
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The suspension provision interacts with GDPR obligations in situations where suspension affects data availability or the ability of a data controller to comply with data subject rights requests.
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Suspension without prior notice can cause immediate operational disruption for businesses that depend on GCP for production workloads, and the 'risk' standard gives Google significant discretion in making that determination.
This provision means your Google Cloud access can be suspended at Google's discretion for broadly defined reasons, including inactivity over six months, with potentially immediate effect and significant consequences for applications or data hosted on the platform.
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