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free chicken for grabs, google cloud shell

dbadudedbadude Member
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I recently rediscovered the free tier google cloud shell.
What google enginering gave for your grabs is an ubuntu virtual machine with 2 cores and 8GB ram and 5GB of storage. the machine recycles itself after 12 hours of usage. Shell and sudo access all from within your browser. You can install software and access the net from it. No need to install much software as it has most coding utilitys available, even midnight commander i found on it.

Overall I think its a handy machine for small coding tasks and try outs of open source software and or install some of your vibe coding slob.

https://shell.cloud.google.com

Thanked by 3abtdw ElonBezos JerryHou

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  • DrNutellaDrNutella Member

    No egress limit?

  • dbadudedbadude Member

    @DrNutella said:
    No egress limit?

    Yeah there are limits, for example i couldnt get yabs to finish the run. Quota exceeded message i got.

  • cxplaycxplay Member
    edited April 23

    fastfetch

    It might be better suited for some testing and showcase usage; I ran yabs once and noticed that it doesn't support IPv6 :lol:

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2025-04-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Thu Apr 23 02:28:45 PM UTC 2026

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 27 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.20GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2199.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 7.8 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 101.0 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel     : 6.6.123+
VM Type    : DOCKER
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Google LLC
ASN        : AS396982 Google LLC
Host       : Google Cloud (asia-east1)
Location   : Taipei, Taiwan (TPE)
Country    : Taiwan

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/disk/by-id/google-home-part1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 408.00 KB/s    (102) | 5.85 MB/s       (91)
Write      | 430.00 KB/s    (107) | 6.16 MB/s       (96)
Total      | 838.00 KB/s    (209) | 12.02 MB/s     (187)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 27.87 MB/s      (54) | 38.10 MB/s      (37)
Write      | 30.04 MB/s      (58) | 40.83 MB/s      (39)
Total      | 57.92 MB/s     (112) | 78.93 MB/s      (76)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.62 Mbits/sec  | 3.46 Mbits/sec  | 215 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 2.05 Mbits/sec  | 59.9 Mbits/sec  | 207 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 2.11 Mbits/sec  | 11.4 Mbits/sec  | 288 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 7.41 Mbits/sec  | 42.3 Mbits/sec  | --             
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy            | 4.93 Mbits/sec  | 127 ms         
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.74 Mbits/sec  | 16.6 Mbits/sec  | 219 ms         
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | busy            | 2.10 Mbits/sec  | 311 ms         

Running GB6 benchmark test... *cue elevator music*
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 784                           
Multi Core      | 903                           
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/17768588

YABS completed in 32 min 38 sec
    Thanked by 2tux xms
  • hyperblasthyperblast Member

    can i run wireguard on this machine?

  • farsighterfarsighter Member
    • The default weekly free Cloud Shell quota is 50 hours.
    • Non‑interactive sessions get killed automatically after 40 minutes.

    This could have been an nice free dev box but Google they went out of their way to cripple it with arbitrary limits

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited April 23

    Wtf thats not worthy of being called a chicken.

    Thanked by 4suyadi92 xvps Fubukibox ariq01
  • DrNutellaDrNutella Member

    @dbadude said:

    @DrNutella said:
    No egress limit?

    Yeah there are limits, for example i couldnt get yabs to finish the run. Quota exceeded message i got.

    NaN

  • blaneholblanehol Member

    I’d rather spend $7/yr.

    Thanked by 2dbadude lovelyserver
  • MonocleMonocle Member

    Tip: Don't store anything even slightly important there. They flag accounts very easily. I once had my account banned for just building a java app (I guess they considered the 100% CPU usage for 2/3 minutes malicious? got banned the next day)
    And on a few other accounts I simply got banned for doing iperf3 tests to my servers.
    You lose all your data stored there and you can't message the support to appeal unless you have GCLOUD support subscription.

    I once had bad internet so it was a nice testing environment (till I got banned and lost my projects files :).)

    Thanked by 1dbadude
  • dbadudedbadude Member

    @Monocle said:
    Tip: Don't store anything even slightly important there. They flag accounts very easily. I once had my account banned for just building a java app (I guess they considered the 100% CPU usage for 2/3 minutes malicious? got banned the next day)
    And on a few other accounts I simply got banned for doing iperf3 tests to my servers.
    You lose all your data stored there and you can't message the support to appeal unless you have GCLOUD support subscription.

    I once had bad internet so it was a nice testing environment (till I got banned and lost my projects files :).)

    i got locked out yesterday too.

    'You have temporarily exceeded a Cloud Shell limit. Upgrade to Cloud Workstations for development environments on Google Cloud without limits. '

  • dbadudedbadude Member

    @blanehol said:
    I’d rather spend $7/yr.

    big spender! LOL

  • dbadudedbadude Member

    @Neoon said:
    Wtf thats not worthy of being called a chicken.

    chicken bones

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    @dbadude said:

    @Neoon said:
    Wtf thats not worthy of being called a chicken.

    chicken bones

    Rename the Thread, asap.

  • xmsxms Member

    I got 4 cores and 16GB in SG.

  • dbadudedbadude Member

    @xms said:
    I got 4 cores and 16GB in SG.

    wow mine 2c.8g in AMS euro. Lucky you, i will fireup my vpn overthere. Check it out

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