Using the Pricing Calculator
Google provides a Pricing Calculator to help GCP users understand the costs associated with the services and configuration of resources they choose to use. The Pricing Calculator is an online tool at https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/.
With the Pricing Calculator you can specify the configuration of resources, the time they will be used, and, in the case of storage, the amount of data that will be stored. Other parameters can be specified too. Those will vary according to the service you are calculating charges for.
For example, Figure 18.45 shows some of the services available to use with the Pricing Calculator. Currently, there are almost 40 services available in the Pricing Calculator.
FIGURE 18.45 Pricing Calculator banner with a partial display of services available
Figure 18.46 shows part of the form for estimating the cost of VMs. In this form you can specify the following:
- Number of instances
- Machine types
- Operating system
- Average...
