title: Google Cloud Shell won't start; throws usage limits exceeded msg
body: <p>This is a <strong>Google Cloud Storage</strong> service related question; specifically about <strong>Google Cloud Shell</strong> and inability to start it. It worked fine for the past week. But today, about 3 hours earlier onward, when I visit:</p>
  
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    <p><a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/storage" rel="noreferrer">https://console.cloud.google.com/storage</a></p>
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  <p>...and click on <strong>Products &amp; Services</strong> (the side-drawer menu, top left corner), and then choose <strong>Storage</strong> (under STORAGE services), and then click on <strong>Activate Google Cloud Shell</strong>, it says:</p>
  
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    <p>Connecting: Provisioning your Google Cloud Shell machine...</p>
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  <p>...and then the following message:</p>
  
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    <p>Service usage limits temporarily exceeded. Try connecting later. If
    you believe this is an error, please <strong>report via feedback</strong>. <strong>Close</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5R5z2.jpg" rel="noreferrer">Screenshot here</a></p>
  
  <p>The message clearly says limits exceeded... But all I've been doing is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>gsutil -lhr gs://some-bucket/my-dir/** | tail -10
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>watch -n 25 'gsutil -lhr gs://some-bucket/my-dir/** | tail -10'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I let the <code>watch</code> command running (BTW: does this operation incur a cost?).</p>
  
  <p>I am <strong>uploading about 205 GBs of podcast archives (MP3s)</strong> that I need to hold onto for my research. So far I've transferred 89.9 GBs of data using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>gsutil -m cp -r my-dir gs://some-bucket
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...from my laptop (sadly, Win 10 Pro for the moment). I don't have access to a Linux box to get a <em>simple, clean listing with human-readable file sizes and summary, the last few lines, <code>tail -10</code> i.e. (to keep an eye on progress of uploads, nor does <code>gsutil cp</code> provide any).</em></p>
  
  <p>Trying to do the same on my Windows laptop involves some trashy PowerShell BS which I have no inclination in spending time on! :(</p>
  
  <p>But now I <strong>can't start a Google Cloud Shell</strong>, which indeed was a great convenience...</p>
  
  <p>I checked billing and see this:</p>
  
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    <p><strong>Cloud Storage Durable Reduced Availability Storage:</strong> 2.541
    Gibibyte-months (Source:some-bucket), US$ 0.05 debited</p>
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  <p>and</p>
  
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    <p><strong>Cloud Storage Class A Request:</strong> 13998 Counts (Source:some-bucket), US$
    0.14 debited.</p>
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  <p>That's fine with me, as I am OK to pay for the storage I use and the operations I make.</p>
  
  <p>Any tips on why cloud shell access won't start and give that limit-exceeded message?</p>