>During the beta period you will be charged only for the Google Cloud Storage storage and network egress consumed by your Docker images.
Dammit google, this is not how you price things. Especially when people have been burned by price jumps on your service before. I don't know why i'd bother integrating with a service when I have no idea what the cost will be.
It actually is the way Google quite often prices things.
> I don't know why i'd bother integrating with a service when I have no idea what the cost will be.
Then maybe a pre-release service for which Google has not yet developed the experience with usage patterns that will let it price the service appropriately isn't for you. But that's okay, its not intended for everybody -- even everybody for whom the service would be appropriate when GA -- hence the Beta label.
> It actually is the way Google quite often prices things.
True, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
> maybe a pre-release service (...)
Also true.
The advantage of Docker based compute engines is that your lock-in is a lot lower - providers have to compete on price and features without locking customers in.
Where I work, we're always balancing using new AWS features against how hard it would be to migrate out to another provider or take our solutions on-premises.
Is there any guarantee the cost will be a linear function of those things? Quadratic? Quartic? Exponential?
Fine print, fine print everywhere.