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Calculate Google Cloud Network Costs

One responsibility of a Google Cloud network engineer is understanding the networking costs incurred. Charges include those for egress traffic from one region to others, VM-to-VM traffic, load balancing traffic, and reservation of IP addresses. In this hands-on lab, you'll use the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to figure the estimated monthly costs, given a specific networking infrastructure and scenario.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Sep 14, 2025
Duration
15m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Calculate Egress Charges

    Use the Pricing Calculator to estimate egress charges for the appropriate networks.

  2. Challenge

    Estimate VM-to-VM Costs

    With the Pricing Calculator, add egress charges for VMs in one region to VMs in other regions.

  3. Challenge

    Include Load-Balancing and IP Address Costs

    Use the Pricing Calculator to calculate monthly costs for load balancing and utilizing a number of static and ephemeral IP addresses.

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