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Google Cloud – Price Cuts, Reserved Instances, Dataprep, Cloud Functions, More

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> 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.

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.

Seems 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.

Cloud shell was free. Works fine for Ansible. Only trick is you have to reinstall it each launch.

Disclaimer: This is some totally untested work, but is the direction I intend to go

I have a docker ansible image, which I could just DL to the local storage they give: https://github.com/chad-autry/wac-ansible

According 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.

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)

App Engine Flexible now out of beta. But still no signs of availability in Europe?

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