"We’d like all customers to experience AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. That's why AlloyDB is available at no cost during the preview period. The no cost usage during pr

"We’d like all customers to experience AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. That's why AlloyDB is available at no cost during the preview period. The no cost usage during preview is governed by fair usage limits, after which the full pricing shown on this page applies. Below are the monthly fair usage limits for each cost component: Compute: $15,000 of usage, equivalent to at least 125 vCPUs and 1,000 GBs of RAM in us-central1 Storage: $650 of usage, equivalent to at least 2 TB in us-central1" Hadn't seen this mentioned anywhere yet, but looks like it's basically free for most use cases while it's in preview. The pricing otherwise does seem a bit excessive. For the absolute minimum compute/memory resources in an HA setup, you're looking at a minimum ~$120/month. Non-HA is half that. But that's exactly 1 vCPU and 8 GB RAM per instance. If you're curious, max cost per month based on the constraints of the VM's that run the service is about $15k/month in a minimum HA setup, not excluding storage and egress costs. If you need a transactional DB that's fine, but idk that still seems kinda pricey to me. If you can get away with it, it still makes much more sense to try and use BigQuery, append mostly, and keep your queries efficient.