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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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Challenge
Price Out and Estimate Using Compute Engine Instances
Here you will price out using three Compute Engine instances for your deployment:
- Head to [Google Cloud Pricing Calculator]1. Select + Add to estimate.
- Select the plus icon next to Compute Engine.
- 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)
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Challenge
Deploy the Instances
Here we will deploy our Compute Engine instances using Google Cloud Shell:
- Activate Google Cloud Shell Terminal.
- Deploy all three instances to view priced out calculation.
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