Estimating the cost of your end-to-end data solution in GCP

While trying out the exercises in this book, we briefly discussed the costs that might be incurred when using various GCP services. You may have already been billed for some of the resources, so you may be wondering, “How much will they cost in a full production system?” This question is important and is often asked by stakeholders.

As a data engineer, it would be great if you could estimate the end-to-end data solution cost upfront. To estimate the cost in GCP, first, we need to understand that not all GCP services use the same pricing calculation.

Note

The pricing model that’s described in this book is based on the latest information at the time of writing. Google Cloud can change the pricing model for any service at any time.

There are three types of pricing models:

Virtual Machine (VM)-based: There are GCP resources that are billed with the VMs. The bills that are generated by the machines...