Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think

Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by jdelman on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:03PM (#33110909)

Out of curiosity, how much are you paying a month using Cloud Console that way?

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by aleksiy123 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:20PM (#33111130)

It's free tier. But storage is limited to 5GB.

I'm pretty sure you can pay for more storage but I just haven't hit the limit yet.

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by paxys on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:17PM (#33111079)

Why would they be paying for it out of pocket?

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by petercooper on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:12PM (#33111823)

I don't know about Google, but as far as I heard, AWS folks pay for their own AWS resources for side projects, at least.

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by rfoo on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:56PM (#33113226)

Google too.

Microsoft does give cloud credits per month for employees tho.

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by jdelman on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:34PM (#33112926)

They said they were using it for side projects. Even if Google is subsidizing the bill, I'm interested to know how much something like this would cost.

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by aleksiy123 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:02PM (#33113302)

Google does not provide any discounts for employees personal projects.

Cloud Shell is free up to 5GB additional storage is $0.02/GB a month.

Alternatively someone linked https://www.gitpod.io/ which also has a free tier.

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