Google Compute Engine Pricing

“You won't have a problem with cost because Google's pricing is affordable and near the same as AWS. … You can scale your projects accordingly, and you will know how much it will cost due to their transparent pricing.”

“We are promised lower total cost and some discounts are in place In practice, at first migration, the cost is just as high as any prior cloud However, with clever use of APIs we should get a positive... … Cost, seemingly cheaper than Azure and AWS, yes.”

“Google's free trial of their services through a platform credit (which AWS doesn't offer), also helped us test their compute platform, which helped us figure out how to integrate the GPU-accelerated... … Customizing the number of cores, RAM beyond what Google offers in their standard compute plans can get quite expensive.”

“The pay as you go model has been very beneficial during the budget excercise to save additional cost. … On prem servers have been decommissioned which has saved a lot of money The infrastructure support is provided by Google which has reduced our operational cost The security has multiple layers and...”

“Although the cost is effective, for some small business enterprise this might be a big issue because the cost can be a bit higher. … Also the cost efficiency as this tool offers pay-as-you-go pricing model, which allows us to pay for the resources we use makes it very unique and highly recommended cloud engine platform.”

“From a purely cost-based perspective, Google Compute Engine is ideal if you're building an application from scratch, as it allows you to start small with the free tier or promotional credits and then... … Resources allocation Monitoring Catalogue deployment Awesome free tier and discount credits.”

“Competitive on demand pricing Spot/Pre-emptible market is added bonus Overall great experience with GCP wrt cost managment. … My switching between on-premise and cloud resources, we aim to optimize cloud cost as well to enterprise customers.”

“The pricing model of GCE offers first 10 mins free and then charging in increments of 10 mins.
Both Ec2 and GCE offers high CPU/high memory and standard images.”

“Reasonable pricing for the VMs help to reduce the overall budget.”

“This is likely due to a combination of the savings mentioned in my earlier point, better pricing on GCP, (and likely Moore's law to some extent where the necessary compute just gets cheaper over... …

That practical caveat aside, I believe that the GCP brings a strong suite of tools to the table overall and is good value for money at this time as well.”

“Always free usage limits -- you can run a small VM on it completely free of charge! … Sustained use discounts could be combined with committed use discounts -- just give me cheaper price if I'm running a VM for a year.”