Get hands-on experience with 20+ free Google Cloud products and $300 in free credit for new customers.

Compute Engine Free Tier Confusion

I'd like to run a small flat file CMS php site with google cloud's free tier offering. I could use other free hosting providers, but they tend to be slow with page speed even if I'm serving just static pages (I presume google will be faster). When I follow any of the guides online, selecting everything specified in the free tier offering, it still shows a monthly estimated cost associated with it. Why do they call it a free tier if it's not? Or have I missed something? Thanks!

Solved Solved
4 3 10.4K
1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Hello @MC208  ,Welcome on Google Cloud Community.

It is free tier IF you will not utilize more resources than listed in this [1]page. In other words, if you will not exceed free tier limit quotas, your billing should not be charged.

[1]. https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#free-tier-usage-limits

All info about free tier: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features

--
cheers,
DamianS
LinkedIn medium.com Cloudskillsboost

View solution in original post