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Any word on pricing?

travisd 5y ago
Changes over time and ranges from 60-91% discount, according to the docs: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#pricing https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#pricing
- remram 5y ago
  If it changes at most once in 30 days, that seems different from AWS.
teraflop 5y ago
Among other things, the price cuts are a nice change for ultra-cheap hobby projects that have extremely low resource demands. So far the lowest Spot VM price I've found is e2-micro in us-west4, which costs a whopping $0.69/month for 2GB of RAM and 0.25 of a shared core. That's only 25% the cost of Amazon's comparable t3a.small.
- sodality2 5y ago
  Keep in mind as far as I can tell there's a $1.44 fee for an external IP address (only if it's in use by a preemptible VM). If it's not in use, it's even higher.
  - londons_explore 5y ago
    It isn't written anywhere in the documentation, but the first 744 IP address-hours per month are charged at $0.00. Link to pricing page: https://cloud.google.com/skus/?currency=USD&filter=C054-7F72-A02E%2509 https://cloud.google.com/skus/?currency=USD&filter=C054-7F72... That means if you just need one VM, you won't pay for IP charges. Obviously that might change anytime without notice.
    - sodality2 5y ago
      Nice, thanks!
  - remram 5y ago
    Is there a way to avoid paying that fee, if you don't need a public IP address? E.g. can you get NAT for free?
superasn 5y ago
Also what is the granularity? Right now on AWS you have to pay for the full hour even if you use it for 5 minutes. A per minute granularity can make Google's offering more enticing for a lot of users.
- ur-whale 5y ago
  >Also what is the granularity? Don't have an authoritative answer, sorry, but granularity is an area where Google has historically been better than the competition.
- tecleandor 5y ago
  On AWS you only pay for full hours if you're using RHEL or Suse. Any other Linux distro or Windows pay by seconds: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-interruptions.html#billing-for-interrupted-spot-instances https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-int... On GCP seems like you pay per seconds, but if you use a Premium OS and GCP stops your instance, you would pay for the premium OS pricing anyway: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#spot-with-premium-os https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#spot-wi...
  - superasn 5y ago
    Thank you this is great news for me. I always assumed it was by the hour, or maybe it was and they changed it and I missed the announcement. Regardless this is great news for me!

Changes over time and ranges from 60-91% discount, according to the docs: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#pricing https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#pricing

remram 5y ago
If it changes at most once in 30 days, that seems different from AWS.

teraflop 5y ago

Among other things, the price cuts are a nice change for ultra-cheap hobby projects that have extremely low resource demands. So far the lowest Spot VM price I've found is e2-micro in us-west4, which costs a whopping $0.69/month for 2GB of RAM and 0.25 of a shared core. That's only 25% the cost of Amazon's comparable t3a.small.

sodality2 5y ago
Keep in mind as far as I can tell there's a $1.44 fee for an external IP address (only if it's in use by a preemptible VM). If it's not in use, it's even higher.
- londons_explore 5y ago
  It isn't written anywhere in the documentation, but the first 744 IP address-hours per month are charged at $0.00. Link to pricing page: https://cloud.google.com/skus/?currency=USD&filter=C054-7F72-A02E%2509 https://cloud.google.com/skus/?currency=USD&filter=C054-7F72... That means if you just need one VM, you won't pay for IP charges. Obviously that might change anytime without notice.
  - sodality2 5y ago
    Nice, thanks!
- remram 5y ago
  Is there a way to avoid paying that fee, if you don't need a public IP address? E.g. can you get NAT for free?

superasn 5y ago

Also what is the granularity? Right now on AWS you have to pay for the full hour even if you use it for 5 minutes. A per minute granularity can make Google's offering more enticing for a lot of users.

ur-whale 5y ago
>Also what is the granularity? Don't have an authoritative answer, sorry, but granularity is an area where Google has historically been better than the competition.
tecleandor 5y ago
On AWS you only pay for full hours if you're using RHEL or Suse. Any other Linux distro or Windows pay by seconds: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-interruptions.html#billing-for-interrupted-spot-instances https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-int... On GCP seems like you pay per seconds, but if you use a Premium OS and GCP stops your instance, you would pay for the premium OS pricing anyway: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#spot-with-premium-os https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#spot-wi...
- superasn 5y ago
  Thank you this is great news for me. I always assumed it was by the hour, or maybe it was and they changed it and I missed the announcement. Regardless this is great news for me!