Google Cloud

Entry plans and the real monthly bill

In US dollars, per month, as listed by Google Cloud (Iowa (us-central1)). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.

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Where Google Cloud has datacenters

42 in 28 countries, as listed by Google Cloud.

Where it stands among 43

Each fact with every host's answer. Google Cloud is outlined.

Add-ons and extra charges

Public IPv4

$3.65/month extra Monthly figure stated by Google for an IP in use on a standard VM ($0.005/hour)

Automatic backups

Not stated No backup plan; standard snapshots billed by stored GB

Snapshots

$0.05 per GB-month Standard snapshot storage in us-central1

Extra traffic

Not stated No allowance; egress is metered per GiB: Premium Tier from Iowa to North America $0.12/GiB after 1 GiB free, Standard Tier $0.085/GiB after 200 GiB free

How you pay

Hourly billing

YesYes Per-second billing after a 1-minute minimum

Minimum term

None (per second) 1- and 3-year commitments lower prices

Setup fee

None 'No up-front fees. No termination charges.'

Always-free server

Always Free: 1 e2-micro VM per month in us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1, 30 GB-months standard disk, 1 GB egress from North America

New-account credit

$300 for 90 days Free Trial account closes after the credit or 90 days unless upgraded

Payment methods

Card Credit and debit cards; other methods vary by country and billing currency

Signup checks

Name, address and a payment method to verify identity; a pending card authorization; bank verification in some countries

Refunds

None stated; usage billed per second No refund window stated for Compute Engine

What you get

Processors

Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC (E2, chosen by Google); Ampere Altra and Google Axion on Arm series

ARM servers

YesYes Tau T2A (Ampere Altra) and C4A (Axion), not in the E2 series

IPv6 included

YesYes No charge for external IPv6 addresses assigned to VMs

What comes with it

Block storage

YesYes Persistent Disk; a 200 GB standard disk is $8.00/month at US prices

Object storage

YesYes Cloud Storage; its XML API works with some S3 tools

Private network

YesYes VPC networks

Cloud firewall

YesYes VPC firewall rules

Load balancers

YesYes Cloud Load Balancing, billed separately

DDoS protection included

YesYes Standard network DDoS protection is covered by Cloud Armor Standard

Managed databases

MySQL, PostgreSQL, sql-server Cloud SQL; AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

Managed Kubernetes

YesYes Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

API

YesYes REST API

Terraform provider

YesYes Terraform provider for Google Cloud

Custom ISO

NoNo Compute Engine can't boot from an ISO; custom images can be built or imported

Windows

Extra licence fee Windows Server images carry a licence charge; eligible own licences avoid it

Who you're renting from

Company

Google LLC

Owned by

Alphabet Inc. Google LLC is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

Based in

United States Mountain View, California

Founded

2012 Compute Engine launched in preview in June 2012; Google was founded in 1998

Support

Basic support (docs, community, billing help) included; paid Standard, Enhanced and Premium technical support

Certifications

ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 Google Cloud-wide; the trust centre lists more programmes

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