(I'm a product manager on the serverless team at Google Cloud)
The early access was based on a user account being added to an access list. But, I'm not sure why your team member had access without explicitly asking for it.
Hi thanks for the reply. The only thing he could think of was that he skipped through a couple of videos on Google's official YouTube developer channel that day. But likely coincidental. (On a sidenote, when my coworker had access, autoscaling was broken, like completely, hence in part my curiosity).
The early access was based on a user account being added to an access list. But, I'm not sure why your team member had access without explicitly asking for it.