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Difficulty: EasyEstimating GCP Costs with the Pricing Calculator

A cloud engineer is using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the base monthly cost of a Compute Engine virtual machine instance. The pricing calculator specifies an hourly rate of $0.12\$0.12 for the selected machine configuration. Assuming the instance runs continuously for 730730 hours in a 30-day month, what is the total estimated baseline cost in USD before applying any sustained use or committed use discounts?

Answer: 87.6 USD

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The baseline cost for running the instance continuously for 730730 hours is $87.60\$87.60.
Multiplying the base rate of $0.12\$0.12 per hour by 730730 monthly hours gives $87.60\$87.60, which represents the raw cost prior to any discount structures.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Determine operational hours and hourly price
Hourly price = $0.12\$0.12, total monthly runtime = 730730 hours
The pricing calculator baseline estimate uses standard monthly operational hours multiplied by the hourly resource rate.
2
Compute total monthly compute charge
$0.12×730=$87.60\$0.12 \times 730 = \$87.60
Multiplying hourly cost by total elapsed running hours gives the total un-discounted monthly cost.

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Baseline monthly Compute Engine cost calculation in the GCP Pricing Calculator
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