> This pretty much eliminates the motivation for having a $5/mo Digital Ocean droplet for personal tinkering DO gives you 1TB of transfer for your $5, Google g

> This pretty much eliminates the motivation for having a $5/mo Digital Ocean droplet for personal tinkering DO gives you 1TB of transfer for your $5, Google gives you 1GB for $0 and 12c/GB after that. Depending on how much egress traffic your VM generates, the Google "free" tier could be very, very expensive.