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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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Calculate Egress Charges
Use the Pricing Calculator to estimate egress charges for the appropriate networks.
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Estimate VM-to-VM Costs
With the Pricing Calculator, add egress charges for VMs in one region to VMs in other regions.
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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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