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Ah well except it is literally called the "always free" tier so you would think that something as core as being connected to the internet would be, you know...
by clhodapp 7y ago
Ah well except it is literally called the "always free" tier so you would think that something as core as being connected to the internet would be, you know... free?
- ggm 7y agoDid they promise you'd have a static IP? 99% or more of the internet for free is behind CGN or home NAT and has little or no persisting address binding for incoming, hence ddns services. Did google distinguish as saying in the 'forever free' bucket they'd do that? being "on" the net is not the same as being "always reachable at a stable IP endpoint"
- MGATOR 7y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like they are going to charge for ephemeral IP addresses as well, not just static ones. This means any VM which accesses an external service via IPV4, i.e. making a request to a transactional mail service, will now have to pay for this privilege even if ingress is via a load balancer.
- ggm 7y agoI understood it to be a fee for static IP binding, used or reserved. Sad to be corrected (I mean, happy to be corrected but the news won't be happy)
- clhodapp 7y agoYou are incorrect. They are going to begin charging a small fee for public IPs (i.e. IPs that can talk to the internet), not static IPs. They do support NAT as an alternative, but they charge for it (and are slightly lowering that cost as a part of this change). To be clear, none of this is going to have any measurable impact on me, I'm just pointing out the fact that they didn't really hold true to the promise of the free tier. Source: the email that they sent out to customers about this
- ggm 7y agoWell that's bad. Thanks for clarifying and you were right from the start.