Planning and Estimating with Pricing Calculator

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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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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 22, 2025

Duration

1h 0m

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)
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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