Preface – This post is part of the Google Cloud Computing series.

Introduction

Google Cloud offers many services and products which cost some charges on using them. It offers a complete suite of cloud computing that can run on the Google platform to provide you with better facilities and services for your organization. Different types of models regarding services and prices are offered by Google cloud. Among all these, google cloud offers a free account for a limited time period, due to which you can enjoy many services within the account for a limited time without paying. In this article, we will see about the free tier of Google cloud and the services which are offered in this account.

What is a Free program?

Google Cloud offers a free tier account where one can utilize services and products without paying. You can use services that will not expire for the time period you get in the free trial. From this service, you can take the experience of all the products and choose wisely that can fit perfectly in the needs of the project and organization. This program is divided into three significant aspects; free tier account in which you can take the experience of services such as compute engine, cloud storage, and development that are entirely free for monthly usage. Another division is of 90 days trial period that will cost you around dollar 300 to explore services, much more than other programs. The third program is a monthly credit program in which you have to pay a dollar 200, and you can take the experience of some additional services such as maps along with your pricing, and also you can create a billing account. These are the three major programs from which one program is entirely free with limited services, and another two programs cost some charges and provide some extra facilities along with free services.

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Top Services in Free tier program

Compute engine

This service allows you to utilize instances in different regions and availability zones along with 30 GB of month days and 5GB of storage in different regions. You can create your free instances in e2 micro in supported regions.

Cloud storage

Cloud storage offers you high performance and reliability at a free cost to store your data in US regions. You can make use of 5GB per month for storage and 1GB of network storage in all regions except China and Australia.

Big Query

For Bigquery, you can use 10GB of storage per month and 1TB of querying requests. You will get 100 slots which can be increased by paying a small amount per need.

Google Kubernetes

In this service, you can manage the fees for one cluster in 1 autopilot. To enhance the service you have to pay some charges.

Speech to text

This is the most reliable service through which you can easily convert your speech into text. You can enjoy the service for 60 minutes in one month.

Secret Manager

It acts as a manager to make documentation of all the prices and their details. The service is free of cost within the free tire account and offers limited functions such as management operation and destroyed secret version. You must pay some cost for adding each function to the pack.

Conclusion

In this article, we get information about a free trial account of Google cloud to use its services for free of cost and to choose the services after experiencing them for the organization. The account is much helpful in saving a lot of money and getting rid of adding wrong services in the package while selecting. This program is popular among all the users starting from new developers for learning to experience developers and organizations.