I'm a first time user for Google Cloud. I'm a software developer investigating the use of Google Cloud for a customer. I'm trying to figure out how much different stuff costs before committing to a design. Frankly the free tier got me interested in using Google Cloud. Customer will be starting small, but wants the flexibility to grow in the future.
I built a simple test app using the instructions for the Bookshelf Tutorial App at https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/tutorials . I did this two or three days ago. I've probably had ten hits/ submissions to the site. Nothing fancy. What I'm trying to understand is pricing. As I look at my billing summaries (Google Cloud Platform --> Billing --> Transactions --> Detailed Transactions View) , I see the biggest charge by far is "*App Engine Flex Instance Core Hours.*" That had me wondering. I doubt if I used the site for more than 20 minutes total. Next step is to go to Google Cloud Platform --> Dashboard --> App Engine --> Go to App Engine Dashboard. When I get there, I see a graph. Select All Versions, Instances and then an appropriate time interval... in my case, lets use seven days. Yup, I see a baseline of 2 instances, with a short pop up to four (which corresponds to my testing the site...) . But what's up with those two instances at idle? Seems expensive for doing nothing. I would have thought there should be zero instances at idle. Or am I just doing this wrong? Many thanks. -- 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/7c23a6cf-f2f3-456c-9a70-9d3b88fb3637%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
