Google Cloud – Price Cuts, Reserved Instances, Dataprep, Cloud Functions, More

&gt; <i>Then there’s our improved Free Tier. First, we’ve extended the free trial from 60 days to 12 months, allowing you to use your $300 credit across all GCP services and APIs, at your own pace and on your own schedule.</i><p>That definitely convinced me to launch on Google. That&#x27;s a crazy amount of resources that a lean application can get started on.

Seems like tons of nice changes.<p>Free f1-micro instance! That is nice. I was paying for one to dev test a webapp on. Not quite clear if it is per account or per project. Guessing per project.<p>Google Cloud Shell: Not sure that was free before? Looks like an excellent place to run ansible playbooks from. I could swear I had thought that before, but rejected it due to costs.<p>I can see myself giving some of the other services a try, not sure what didn&#x27;t have free tiers before that do now other than the above.

According to my records (which might be wrong?), they <i></i>raised<i></i> the price on their highmem instances, from $0.096&#x2F;hour to $0.1184&#x2F;hour for n1-highmem-2. This sucks for me, because I use mostly use highmem instances.

App Engine Flexible now out of beta. But still no signs of availability in Europe?