Google Cloud – Price Cuts, Reserved Instances, Dataprep, Cloud Functions, More
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Google Cloud – Price Cuts, Reserved Instances, Dataprep, Cloud Functions, More
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#2> Then there’s our improved Free Tier. First, we’ve extended the free trial from 60 days to 12 months, allowing you to use your $300 credit across all GCP services and APIs, at your own pace and on your own schedule.
That definitely convinced me to launch on Google. That's a crazy amount of resources that a lean application can get started on.
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#3> Then there’s our improved Free Tier. First, we’ve extended the free trial from 60 days to 12 months, allowing you to use your $300 credit across all GCP services and APIs, at your own pace and on your own schedule. That definitely convinced me to launch on Google. That's a crazy amount of resources that a lean application can get started on.
yep huge change. Will def give them a shot now.
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#4According to my records (which might be wrong?), they raised the price on their highmem instances, from $0.096/hour to $0.1184/hour for n1-highmem-2. This sucks for me, because I use mostly use highmem instances.
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#5App Engine Flexible now out of beta. But still no signs of availability in Europe?
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#6According to my records (which might be wrong?), they raised the price on their highmem instances, from $0.096/hour to $0.1184/hour for n1-highmem-2. This sucks for me, because I use mostly use highmem instances.
The price for g1-small also increased from $0.021/hour to $0.0257/hour. Here's the diff for where I track this: https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/commit/13edcd3772daf07d0d...
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#7Seems like tons of nice changes.
Free f1-micro instance! That is nice. I was paying for one to dev test a webapp on. Not quite clear if it is per account or per project. Guessing per project.
Google Cloud Shell: Not sure that was free before? Looks like an excellent place to run ansible playbooks from. I could swear I had thought that before, but rejected it due to costs.
I can see myself giving some of the other services a try, not sure what didn't have free tiers before that do now other than the above.
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#8According to my records (which might be wrong?), they raised the price on their highmem instances, from $0.096/hour to $0.1184/hour for n1-highmem-2. This sucks for me, because I use mostly use highmem instances.
The price for g1-small also increased from $0.021/hour to $0.0257/hour. Here's the diff for where I track this: https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/commit/13edcd3772daf07d0d...
g1-small and n1-highmem-2 US prices were actually lowered by ~5%. You can see the old prices here: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20170304211331/https://cloud....
In general, Compute Engine's US region got a 5% price drop, Europe got a 4.9% drop and Asia (Japan) got an 8% drop.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
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#9According to my records (which might be wrong?), they raised the price on their highmem instances, from $0.096/hour to $0.1184/hour for n1-highmem-2. This sucks for me, because I use mostly use highmem instances.
No prices went up. I think you might be comparing the list rate to the rate if you use the VM continuously (i.e. if you get full sustained use discounts)
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#10> Then there’s our improved Free Tier. First, we’ve extended the free trial from 60 days to 12 months, allowing you to use your $300 credit across all GCP services and APIs, at your own pace and on your own schedule. That definitely convinced me to launch on Google. That's a crazy amount of resources that a lean application can get started on.
I signed up in February and the 60 day trial was a concern. I'm quite happy that they extended my trial to the full year without needing to ask.