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Sorry for being off-topic: can you guys consider introducing something similar to AWS's free tier? It doesn't have to have a lot free resources but it should be

by geoka9 10y ago

Sorry for being off-topic: can you guys consider introducing something similar to AWS's free tier? It doesn't have to have a lot free resources but it should be lengthy (6+ months, ideally at least 1 year). I recently started a new project, and while I'd prefer to use GC, I had to go with AWS because they offer one year for free (and GC's 2 months is not nearly enough to validate an idea).

vgt 10y ago
That's valid feedback. GCP's free tier is more valuable and more flexible than AWS, but only for 2 months instead of 12. There are also perpetual free tiers for several GCP services - AppEngine, BigQuery, Firebase. No comments on your specific feedback, but please do join GCP NEXT March 8-10 for some exciting updates [0]. (Work on Google Cloud, NOT in marketing :)) [0] https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/ https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/
- wsh91 10y ago
  Cloud Datastore has a perpetual free tier, too: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ :) (I work on it.)
  - vgt 10y ago
    Thanks, I forgot.. there are probably others I'm missing :/
- nivertech 10y ago
  no livestream?
  - vgt 10y ago
    they should have one up closer to the date.
- nostrademons 10y ago
  The tricky part of a 2 month free trial is that it's not nearly enough time to explore the offerings unless you're a company that's already got a product ready to go and staff to migrate it full-time (and I assume the latter is exactly who you'd want to charge full price to). I took advantage of the 2-month GCP free trial, and ended up using 1 GCE instance, 2 Cloud Storage buckets, your cloud storage webhosting & DNS, and....that's it. I don't even really know what other services exist. It takes time to program things...by the time you get around to realizing that there are other GCP services that may help your project, the trial's already over. Since there's a dollar cap as well, I don't see the problem with extending the trial out to a long calendar time-period.
- nodesocket 10y ago
  Anyway to get a discounted Cloud Next ticket? I'm here in San Francisco, but even the $549 (one-day) is out of budget. Would really love to go. I am a GCP user and have a ops/devops consultancy startup (https://elasticbyte.net https://elasticbyte.net).
drenvuk 10y ago
You should really reevaluate whether you should use an entire 6 months to validate an idea. That's a lot of sunk time.
- boulos 10y ago
  To each her own! The most common issue is that you have some idea you start working on (T=0), put it away for a while (T=3 months), and come back to realize your free trial has expired. Alternatively, if you're just tinkering in the background or on weekends, 60 days is suddenly just 9 weekends.
- teraflop 10y ago
  What if you have one idea, and then another one 6 months later?
- mnbbrown 10y ago
  A product like ours (ML based medtech) takes a lot longer than 6 months to validate - and we make extensive use of GPUs (both AWS and Google)
- dastbe 10y ago
  Ideally perpetual free tiers are the best, especially their usage becomes a rounding error.

by geoka9 10y ago

vgt 10y ago

That's valid feedback. GCP's free tier is more valuable and more flexible than AWS, but only for 2 months instead of 12. There are also perpetual free tiers for several GCP services - AppEngine, BigQuery, Firebase. No comments on your specific feedback, but please do join GCP NEXT March 8-10 for some exciting updates [0]. (Work on Google Cloud, NOT in marketing :)) [0] https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/ https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com/

wsh91 10y ago
Cloud Datastore has a perpetual free tier, too: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ :) (I work on it.)
- vgt 10y ago
  Thanks, I forgot.. there are probably others I'm missing :/
nivertech 10y ago
no livestream?
- vgt 10y ago
  they should have one up closer to the date.
nostrademons 10y ago
The tricky part of a 2 month free trial is that it's not nearly enough time to explore the offerings unless you're a company that's already got a product ready to go and staff to migrate it full-time (and I assume the latter is exactly who you'd want to charge full price to). I took advantage of the 2-month GCP free trial, and ended up using 1 GCE instance, 2 Cloud Storage buckets, your cloud storage webhosting & DNS, and....that's it. I don't even really know what other services exist. It takes time to program things...by the time you get around to realizing that there are other GCP services that may help your project, the trial's already over. Since there's a dollar cap as well, I don't see the problem with extending the trial out to a long calendar time-period.
nodesocket 10y ago
Anyway to get a discounted Cloud Next ticket? I'm here in San Francisco, but even the $549 (one-day) is out of budget. Would really love to go. I am a GCP user and have a ops/devops consultancy startup (https://elasticbyte.net https://elasticbyte.net).

drenvuk 10y ago

You should really reevaluate whether you should use an entire 6 months to validate an idea. That's a lot of sunk time.

boulos 10y ago
To each her own! The most common issue is that you have some idea you start working on (T=0), put it away for a while (T=3 months), and come back to realize your free trial has expired. Alternatively, if you're just tinkering in the background or on weekends, 60 days is suddenly just 9 weekends.
teraflop 10y ago
What if you have one idea, and then another one 6 months later?
mnbbrown 10y ago
A product like ours (ML based medtech) takes a lot longer than 6 months to validate - and we make extensive use of GPUs (both AWS and Google)
dastbe 10y ago
Ideally perpetual free tiers are the best, especially their usage becomes a rounding error.