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What is the exact resource limit of Google Cloud instance type f1-micro?
Hi all,
Just get started on Google Cloud for a tiny web app of mine. Now there are not that many visitors so I simply ordered a f1-micro virtual machine. The app now occupies about 30% CPU at all time. Meanwhile, the f1-micro instance type was allocated 1 shared virtual core by default.
What does the 'shared core' mean? What if one f-series vm costs too much CPU?
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You share the core with others, its not dedicated to just you.
I would't worry to much about that.
They most probably are setting a maximum of CPU time you can use or just limit you, if you are going over some threshold for a certain amount of time.
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According to this page, your f1-micro "offer[s] bursting capabilities that allow instances to use additional physical CPU for short periods of time".
Given the fact, that the next bigger instance features 1.38 GCEUs (Google Compute Engine Units),
I would place your instance somewhere in between.
You don't have to worry about cpu use with ec2 or Google cloud.
Their hypervisors do the limiting on vendor end.
Correct me if I'm wrong.