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Planning and Estimating with Pricing Calculator

In this hands-on lab, we will price out Compute Engine infrastructure to deploy in our environment using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator. Then we will deploy all three instances using the Google Cloud Shell.

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Clock icon Intermediate
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Clock icon 1h 0m
Last updated
Clock icon Sep 03, 2025

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  1. Challenge

    Price Out and Estimate Using Compute Engine Instances

    Here you will price out using three Compute Engine instances for your deployment:

    1. Head to [Google Cloud Pricing Calculator]1. Select + Add to estimate.
    2. Select the plus icon next to Compute Engine.
    3. Enter the following information:
      • Number of instances 3
      • Provisioning Model Spot (Preemptible VM)
      • Series E2
      • Number of vCPUs 2
      • Amount of memory 1
      • Datacenter location South Carolina (us-east1)

  2. Challenge

    Deploy the Instances

    Here we will deploy our Compute Engine instances using Google Cloud Shell:

    1. Activate Google Cloud Shell Terminal.
    2. Deploy all three instances to view priced out calculation.
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