June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 44m
English
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Billing
Google offers a very easy-to-use tool to estimate the cost of running your instance with a particular configuration.
VMs range in price from pretty cheap to really expensive. In the following screenshot, you can see that a VM with 1 vCPU and 2 GB of memory is projected to cost $21.90 per month:
However, scaling this instance to 20 vCPU cores and 170 GB of memory will incur a hefty $830 per month, as seen in the following screenshot:
VMs are very transparent about their pricing, while when provisioning one, you are told what the base ...