Free Tier Compute Instance

Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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On Feb. 7, I created a compute instance which I thought met the requirements for free tier:

  • Machine type: e2-micro (2 vCPUs, 1 GB Memory)
  • Location: us-east1-c
  • Storage: 10 GB boot disk

But yesterday, I received a charge for $1.60 for the instance. Any idea where I may have gone wrong in creating my free tier instance? I can provide additional information about the instance if there’s something I may have missed.

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For anyone else who comes across this, I figured it out by checking the “by SKU” billing report. I had the default disk type of BPD (Balanced Persistent Disk). I re-created the VM with an SPD (Standard Persistent Disk), hopefully that corrects it.