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Hello,

I'm too new to google cloud...And I have created a VM Instance with e2-medium (2 vCPUs, 4 GB memory) with 100 GB storage with us-central1-a, and I want to and I facing the charges of that going high anyone here can help me to understand in more depth. and How I can reduce the charges.

Thanks

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glen_yu
Google Developer Expert
Google Developer Expert

Google has an Always Free tier of resources (provided that you use them within their defined limits)

The one you're looking for is probably the free tier compute engine .  So if you just need a VM for learning GCP, I would go with that, but if you're using it for running something and the e2-micro instance type isn't enough, then there isn't much you can do about it.

 

If you need a larger instance then you can consider reducing some of the resource sizes that may be overprovisioned (i.e. storage), which I see you've left at their default values.

Or if you're running an app, can consider modernizing it and running it in App Engine or Cloud Run , both of which are also in the free tier program above and limits for both are pretty generous.

jkg
Google Developer Expert
Google Developer Expert

Agree with Glen's suggestions. Another option is that if your workload is stateless or fault-tolerant and can handle termination at any time, then Pre-emptible VM's may be an option for you. You can save 60-91% of the cost.