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Google Cloud Platform will charge for External IP on their VMs
I just received an e-mail from GCP saying that:
First, we’re increasing the price for Google Compute Engine (GCE) VMs that use external IP addresses. Beginning January 1, 2020, a standard GCE instance using an external IP address will cost an additional $0.004/hr and a preemptible GCE instance using an external IP address will cost an additional $0.002/hr.
Second, we’re reducing the price for Cloud NAT. Beginning January 1, 2020, Cloud NAT gateway will cost $0.0014/hr per GCE instance up to a maximum of $0.044/hr and Cloud NAT data processing charges will be fixed at $0.045/GB for all regions.
They will discount any external IP usage for the first 3 months (until April 1, 2020)
I'm using their free f1-micro VM, but it's time to avoid GCP now.
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$2.94/month per IP.
Woo.
Francisco
ouch not good
So free tier is now dead as it seems? I didn't receive such e-mail
ipv4 only or are they charging for ipv6 too?
I got that email 1 hour ago
Looks like I'm gonna need to look for some cheaper alternatives cause paying 3$ for an IP doesn't really seem like a good deal.
Had a long chat last night with a friend who tried hard to convince me of gcp's many pros. There might be many, but now this....
The biggest pro was that it was "Always-Free", the f1-micro didn't even cost you a cent and the performance was acceptable for basic uses. But now, with the prices for IP however...
April Fools.
Aww dreams shattered.
Brace for it. RIPE.is going to be out this year, you’ll see what IP prices will look like ;-)
I read GCP only supports IPv6 in the load balancer, not on VMs. Which I think is a joke. IPv6 support in the cloud isn't what it should be. For example Amazon only allows a couple of IPv6 addresses per VM, and not a routed prefix.
https://killedbygoogle.com/
about $3 per month? emmmmm the ip prices increased alot
They actually changed the page of the Free Tier and added this:
So the free f1-micro is still free?
It seems like. This sentence wasn't on the page before (at least is what a Way Back Machine from Aug 9th shows), I guess they added to specify that the free tier would still be "possible"
This is the best news I heard today. I'm so happy this is a false alarm
Well, tbh, I'd wait to be totally sure. Make backups of your instances, just in case.
Just to be more sure, I also asked on GCP Billing Support.
That's awesome. Thank for that.
Just started using gce...thanks for this info.
My English isn't very good, and I wasn't sure what it meant. Thanks for the clarification.
Ive got some Google Cloud Coupons. $100k each. If anyone need, we can talk.
I've just got this
My English is not good enough to understand what Google has wrote
Should I worries for the Apr?
I think no. If you are using free f1-micro.
IP cost will wipe out all lowend forum someday.
yup, but will lead into more smarter use of IP's more a push for using more ports in a single ip.