A t2.micro will run you about $10/month (you have to have some amount of EBS to go with it). By comparison, an f1-micro on Google Compute Engine (GCE) is just

A t2.micro will run you about $10/month (you have to have some amount of EBS to go with it). By comparison, an f1-micro on Google Compute Engine (GCE) is just under $5/month thanks to lower prices and "sustained use" discounting: https://cloud.google.com/compute/#pricing https://cloud.google.com/compute/#pricing Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine.