There actually was a 15/cent/hr fee a few years back: https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2017/11/29/google-drops-cluster-management-fee-from-its-managed

There actually was a 15/cent/hr fee a few years back: https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2017/11/29/google-drops-cluster-management-fee-from-its-managed-kubernetes-service-offering/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2017/11/29/google-... YMMV, but I think the value prop of using a managed GKE cluster vs the raw costs and engineering time to run your own control plane is still strong.