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Get $1000 free in Google Compute Engine credits
Check this out, Google are giving away free credit for GCE here:
https://cloud.google.com/resources/starterpack/
I just received mine earlier. It's an easy process: just fill in their form, once you get an email saying you've been selected, add a project to your account and enable billing (on both GAE and GCE), fill in another form, and you'll get the credits.
$1000 is enough to run a standard instance 24/7 for 6 months, but you can do whatever with it. Pricing is here: https://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine
For the promo code in the application, you can use swsoc-org (found it on a company's Facebook page).
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How long did you have to wait before you got a response?
About a day after the initial form, and another after the second.
Thanks for the post. I've just submitted it and waiting
Couldn't you run the f1-micro or g1-small instances instead?Should be 6 full years with the 1st one.
As always, check the (not very)small print: These credits expire in 6 months.
So what They have 6 months of free service. Google can afford it. I wonder how they put up with abuse.
@Maounique Personally I don't want to bother signing up for anything from Google, fill in numerous forms, leave my personal details (all of this to be kept by them forever), for just 6 months of service. I'd think about it for 6 years, though.
On the other hand you can make a fake account with data you will write down and reuse. If I will have the time i will test how well are they able to cope with fake sign-ups.
I can say myself that they don't look into the "company" you submit in the form, since I just put in fake info and it got approved.
Though you will, of course, have to use your real info when enabling billing for the GAE and GCE projects, which they require in the second form.
They might be more strict later once they realize what's going on.
Gave it a shot.
We'll await details.
Just submitted my application. Wish I can get it.
I did too. Need to add CC info too. lets see when I will get credits.
Thanks.
I got it, feedback will follow.
Got mine too. Continue with 2nd form now.
Got mine also. Thanks!
now its 2000 dollars.
Applied.
It's only $1000 for Compute Engine, the other $1000 can only be used for App Engine.
i see, ty @awson
Got one today!
after the promo expiration , can i cancel the billing? Its just for trial anyway. so i will not be charge after it. Thanks.
You should be able to cancel billing before the 6 months are up, yes.
i'm confused about the compute engine billing. how much will i actually pay if i chose 1 instance for example n1-standard-1-d and running 24/7 for 6 months. including Network Pricing/Persistent Disk Pricing/IP Address Pricing. are they billing it separately? i think $1000 is not enough?
It would cost $96/mo to run a n1-standard-1-d 24/7, so you have plenty left for persistent storage and traffic. Ephemeral IPs are free, and static IPs are free so long as they are assigned to a running instance.
Nice!, But quite expensive if your internet destination is mostly in APAC. Freaking $900 already for 6 months
Internet Egress (APAC destination)
0-1TB 0.21x24=5.04x30=151.2x6=$907.2
Instance n1-standard-1-d
0.132x4=3.168x30=95.04x 6 = $570.24
908+571 = $1476 for 6 months?
Or my computation is wrong?
It's expensive because you're using 1GB bandwidth per hour.
So what is it for?
Uh, for Google Compute Engine?
Ooh they are like VMs! I thought it was some proprietory BS like that app engine of theirs. Mind you they don't provide any details except that these are Linux VMs. Do we get root access? how much does it cost?
Yes, you get root access, they are KVM VMs. Pricing is at https://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine
You'll find a lot of information at Google Developers: https://developers.google.com/compute/
ah damn your right! im wrong