Google cloud platform free tier limits from compute engine

Question

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.

Answer 1

As written in the documentation:

Compute Engine
1 non-preemptible e2-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 e2-micro instance limit is by time, not by instance. Each month, eligible use of all of your e2-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.

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Step-by-Step guide to create a free instance:

Create instance

Now go create the instance at https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instancesAdd

• region: us-east1 or one of the region indicated in the documentation.
• Select General Purpose -> N2 -> e2-micro. You will see "Your first 744 hours of e2-micro instance usage are free this month"
• Select Boot disk -> public image -> ubuntu -> 20.04LS -> boot disk type: Standard persistent disk (HDD) -> size 30gb (or as per documentation)
• Allow http and https traffic (or don't check the boxes, if you don't intend to use port 80 and 443)
• Click on Create

You can check "view billing report" to make sure you did it right.