GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances

Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by reilly3000 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:54AM (#20744424)

This is cheaper than AWS EIP for instances that are using an EIP. It is free for GCP VMs to have a resevered IP and use it vs $3.60/mo for AWS EIP whether its used or not. With GCP, unused reserved IP is $7.20/mo. I can't think of a lot of scenarios where you need to hold on to an IP you're not using for an extended period of time, but I could be wrong.

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by vasco on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:42AM (#20744650)

EIPs are free when attached. And public addressable instances in AWS do not need an attached EIP, that's only if you want the public IP to be static and to be able to replace the instance without updating DNS records. So both are free compared to GCP's paid.

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by mitchs on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:06AM (#20744471)

Amazon EIPs are free when attached to a running VM. (Unless you have more than one attached to the same VM.)

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Re:GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addres... by openstep on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:00AM (#20744443)

huh? aws eip is free if you're using it on an ec2 instance

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