{"id":20661,"date":"2017-03-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/?p=20661"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T05:00:53","slug":"google-cloud-platform-free-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/2017\/03\/12\/google-cloud-platform-free-tier\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud Platform Free Tier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google recently provide&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240412133721\/https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/free\/\">the&nbsp;free tier on their Google Cloud Platform (GCP)<\/a>. The free tier will be free forever (but what Google offered are subjected to changes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also included in the free tier is $300 credit for 12 months (I think this was 2 months \u2013 good !)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I applied, created&nbsp;Google Compute Engine (GCE) f1-micro instance, ran the same benchmarks as I did on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240412133721\/https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/5-a-month-do-vs-vultr\/\">Vultr, DO<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240412133721\/https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/2016\/12\/06\/e2-99mo-scaleway-vc1s\/\">Scaleway<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best results I got from the instance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">dd write bs=4k count=10k  100k  1M\n                    1500  39.6  37.5 MB\/s<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">dd read bs=4k \n63.1 MB\/s<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=10000 run\n11.7567 sec.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">stress-ng --cpu 1 --cpu-method all -t 30 \n156.75 ops\/sec<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BUT \u2026<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The results were not consistent.&nbsp; I ran the dd write&nbsp;5 more times, the results&nbsp;varied from 211 MB\/s to 1.5 GB\/s.&nbsp;sysbench results varied from 11 to 13 sec. stress-ng varied between 50 \u2013 150 ops\/sec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this is because almost all the resources for free tier (CPU, disk, network) are shared among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s free, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently provide&nbsp;the&nbsp;free tier on their Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The free tier will be free forever (but what Google offered are subjected to changes). Also included in the free tier is $300 credit for 12 months (I think this was 2 months \u2013 good !) I applied, created&nbsp;Google Compute Engine (GCE) f1-micro instance, ran &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/2017\/03\/12\/google-cloud-platform-free-tier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Cloud Platform Free Tier<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[126,335,5],"class_list":["post-20661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-admin","tag-cloud","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20662,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661\/revisions\/20662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}