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how can a instance with 1gb cost 35 USD per month... also I would've hoped that google won't add tiers, more like "limits" and that if I only host 1mb on my instance that I would only pay for 1mb... besides that I could scale to XGb (depending on my limit)...

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I totally get the benefits of a managed service, but...$35/month for 1GB is just silly.

Are you sure you fully understand the benefit?

$35 is, what, 30 minutes of an engineer's time from a company's perspective? If the management of the service would take any more than that every month (and it easily could!), you're ahead.

Not everyone works in the Bay making boat-loads of cash. My comment was from the perspective of a small business in Europe.

Even then, I think it'd be unlikely that the time-cost wouldn't make it worthwhile. People generally underestimate how much time gets soaked up by managing a computer service.

$35 seems to be 3x more cost than AWS's smallest tier (no further comparison of features/value beyond price), so it does seem expensive for an introductory project, considering a single $35~ Digital Ocean VPS might all some companies need their first year. On the other hand, the number of times I've seen an engineer suggest spending $500-$2000 in labor/hours (when already behind on mission critical work) as alternative to spending $5/month in some SaaS is just staggering.

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