Compute Engine looks promising. It used to require a subscription to Gold support ($400/month) before you could create any VMs, but they removed this restrictio

Compute Engine looks promising. It used to require a subscription to Gold support ($400/month) before you could create any VMs, but they removed this restriction last week. It still has very limited quotas, though: Maximum of 8 instances or 8 total CPUs. You can request a quota increase through a web form, but I did this a week ago and haven't heard back yet. Also, it's still in a "limited preview" period, which means your entire zone can go down for weeks for scheduled maintenance, which is pretty inconvenient: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/faq#maintenance https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/faq#maintenance