Pricing Calculator

Google offers help when it comes to calculating the cost of running your apps in GCP. Instead of checking the prices in the documentation of each service, you can use the GCP Pricing Calculator. This calculator is available online via https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator. It allows you to choose the services and configuration you want to use for your application. You can also add your estimated storage and network requirements. The total price will be calculated for you:

Figure 16.26 – Pricing Calculator

Here, you can see an example of the cost for five nodes on the GKE cluster with 500 GB disk space. To add your estimated egress networking traffic, simply choose the NETWORKING icon and define where your traffic will go:

Figure 16.27 – Pricing Calculator – Networking

Let's look at another example, this time for Cloud Storage. In this example, we are showing you how much it will cost...