Permission denied by location policies using me-central-2

[AmalSalah]

Hey folks,

I'm wondering if anyone else ran into the same issue as me when trying to set up a new GKE cluster in a specific region (me-central2). Every time I try to create a Kubernetes cluster or a container registry, give me this errors "Permission denied by location policies." Any idea what's causing this, and can you help me figure out how to fix it?

I found here: https://cloud.google.com/docs/dammam-region-access#non-ksa-based_customers that free trial users are not allowed create resources unless they are setup for invoiced billing?

[lawrencenelson]

Hi @AmalSalah,

Welcome to the Google Cloud Community!

Yes, you are correct. You need a certain billing account to provision resources in me-central-2. So, this is not an issue but working as intended.

For more information, you can view my answer in this GCC thread.

Thank you.

[AmalSalah]

Thank you for your response.

Could you please clarify what you mean by 'certain billing account'? There is no trial?

Is payment required for using me-central-2?