Account recovery support for cloud platform users

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Problem

Cloud infrastructure users face account lockouts due to policy violations or security flags, with no clear escalation path for recovery. During lockouts, users remain billed without visibility into charges, cannot control their infrastructure or domains, and support teams classify account recovery as "out of scope."

Solution concept

A third-party account recovery and visibility service that acts as an intermediary between locked-out users and cloud providers. The product would help users regain access through guided recovery workflows, provide transparent billing visibility during lockouts, enable domain and DNS management of assets held in inaccessible accounts, and offer human support with clear escalation paths—removing the catch-22 of needing account access to get support, and accountability when providers continue charging locked accounts.

Who has it

Businesses and community operators who depend on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) for hosting critical services and have registered domains through the same provider, ranging from startups to small-to-medium operations serving hundreds to tens of thousands of users.

How they handle it today

Today, users facing account lockouts must navigate fragmented support channels: submitting appeal forms, filing recovery requests with promised 48-hour responses, contacting standard support (which often requires account access they don't have), escalating through unrelated teams like Maps Platform, and posting on community forums. Each path either dead-ends or loops back to inaccessible systems. Meanwhile, they have no visibility into active services, ongoing charges, or billing, and cannot manage critical assets like domain registrations held in the same account.

Why now

Large cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure) auto-suspend accounts for policy violations and bot activity with opaque processes and fragmented support, creating recurring lockout incidents. As more critical infrastructure and domains consolidate on single providers, lockouts cause cascading business damage. The gap between provider accountability and user visibility has become acute enough to trigger public complaints and community discussion.