In GCP, it is not notified when a virtual machine of with resources higher than the free tier limit is created. An error message of following pattern arises in the notification. So, what is the maximum allowed resourced for Google cloud platform virtual machine?
Create VM instance "instance-2" and its boot disk "instance-2" Quota 'C2_CPUS' exceeded. Limit: 0.0 in region asia-south1.
As written in the documentation:
Compute Engine
1 non-preemptible f1-micro VM instance per month in one of the following US regions:.
- Oregon: us-west1
- Iowa: us-central1
- South Carolina: us-east1
30 GB-months HDD. 5 GB-month snapshot storage in the following regions:.
- Oregon: us-west1
- Iowa: us-central1
- South Carolina: us-east1
- Taiwan: asia-east1
- Belgium: europe-west1
1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month Your Free Tier f1-micro instance limit is by time, not by instance. Each month, eligible use of all of your f1-micro instances is free until you have used a number of hours equal to the total hours in the current month. Usage calculations are combined across the supported regions.
- Google Cloud Free Tier does not include external IP addresses.
- Compute Engine offers discounts for sustained use of virtual machines. Your Free Tier use doesn't factor into sustained use.
- GPUs and TPUs are not included in the Free Tier offer. You are always charged for GPUs and TPUs that you add to VM instances.
NB: This is subject to changes, check the link for up-to-date information.
Now go create the instance at https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instancesAdd
You can check "view billing report" to make sure you did it right.
You can found more information at the documentation Google Cloud Free Tier:
The Google Cloud Free Tier has two parts:
- A 3-month(previously 12) free trial with $300 credit to use with any Google Cloud services.
- Always Free, which provides limited access to many common Google Cloud resources, free of charge.
At the section 12-month, $300 free trial you can find Program coverage details:
Your free trial credit applies to all Google Cloud resources, with the following exceptions:
- You can't have more than 8 cores (or virtual CPUs) running at the same time.
- You can't add GPUs to your VM instances.
- You can't request a quota increase. For an overview of Compute Engine quotas, see Resource quotas.
- You can't create VM instances that are based on Windows Server images.
You must upgrade your account to perform any of the actions in the preceding list.
In addition, have a look at the End of the free trial:
The free trial ends when you use all of your credit, or after 12 months, whichever happens first. At that time, the following conditions apply:
- You must upgrade to a paid account to continue using Google Cloud.
- All resources you created during the trial are stopped.
- Any data you stored in Compute Engine is lost.
- Your account enters a 30-day grace period, during which you can recover resources and data you stored in any Google Cloud services during the trial period.
- You might receive a message stating that your account has been canceled, which only indicates that your account has been suspended to prevent charges.
and at the Recovering data:
Caution: There is no automated way to recover data that you used on VM instances you created with Compute Engine. You must manually export any data that you want to keep from your Compute Engine VM instances before the trial period ends.
I do recommend you to upgrade your account before free trial ends.
After the free trial period ends you just have to register a credit card to continue to use their services if/when you accrue charges from them. If you set it up right it might charge you .02 cents every now and then. I just set up my first one with wordpress and at first I would get charged .02cents/month but once I updated the software and the config it rarely charges me. p.s. I started getting hack attempts pretty quickly.
