Hi Jeff, yes you are correct they currently use these resources, but according to Google from https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing these prices will increase (which I assume is to the standard GAE prices) once flex environment becomes GA.
"Instances within the flexible environment are charged the cost of the underlying Google Compute Engine Virtual Machines <https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing>. This is Beta-only pricing and will increase once the flexible environment is GA." So these lower prices seem to be only temporary. On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 2:25:28 PM UTC-7, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > > “nearly exact” I meant to say. EB and Flexible runtimes are both mapped to > a whole hypervisor VM. > > Jeff > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <je...@infohazard.org > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> If you want a nearly close comparison to ElasticBeanstalk, use a Managed >> VM (or “Flexible Runtime” I think they’re being called now). They are >> currently billed at the same rate as the underlying Compute Engine instance. >> >> Jeff >> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Susan Lin <susan...@gmail.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> I tested out Google App Engine 4 years ago and am coming back now to see >>> if it is a possibility for another project I will be working on. I see the >>> pricing for instances are still the same as they were 4 years ago: >>> >>> This table summarizes the CPU, memory, and hourly billing rate of the >>> various instance classes. >>> Instance ClassMemory LimitCPU LimitCost per Hour per Instance >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> F1 128 MB 600 Mhz $0.05 >>> F2 256 MB 1.2 Ghz $0.10 >>> F4 512 MB 2.4 Ghz $0.20 >>> F4_1G 1024 MB 2.4 Ghz $0.30 >>> When compared to Amazon's PaaS ElasticBeanstalk a 1 cpu 1GB instance >>> costs $0.013 an hour which is almost 30 times cheaper than Google App >>> Engine front end instances. I understand they offer different services, but >>> as far as front end instances it is hard to see why in 2016 (Moore's Law) a >>> 1gb GAE instance is still so expensive. Does Google have any plans to lower >>> the costs of these instances in the very near future? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Google App Engine" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to google-appengi...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> To post to this group, send email to google-a...@googlegroups.com >>> <javascript:>. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/9020a9f4-886b-4841-9de0-314c14c0ffee%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/9020a9f4-886b-4841-9de0-314c14c0ffee%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/4a50cbef-7fc0-49f2-a275-67feebdcd990%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
