My Google Cloud Bill

2025-07-01

I just got my Google Cloud bill for the month.

50¢

(or for the kids)

$0.50

Not too bad for 10 gb of storage, 1 gb of ram and 2 cores. This VM has been powering my combined web/gemini vert.x server for the last 18 months. I've had no issues and no downtime, AFAIK.

Unless something has changed, anyone with a gmail address can get one of these VMs. I've always thought it would be interesting to set up multiple instances and link them together with a vert.x cluster manager. This is how I know I may be insane.