To many hours (almost three times more) in month GCE billing

[Костя Хомко]

Hello.

We have only several standard servers and more than 1700 hours were calculated from the beginning of current month. That is strangely!
By my calculations it should be around ~600 hours from the begin of this month in total.
How it is possible that Google Cloud  Engine calculate three times more then we have (All VM * 24 hours * 7 days)?
As far as i know server (virtual machine) can`t work more than 24 hours per day.
Does GCE calculate each separate processor core of each VM per hour?

[Digil (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Could you please explain a little bit more about your concern? How many instances are there in your GCE project? Have you checked the detailed invoice?.

The calculation for the monthly invoice depends on several factors including the number of instances you are having. In order to avoid confusion you can always make use the Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator, which will provide you an estimate of your usage. You can also check the pricing list for various machine types and its sub-component as well. 

If you are concerned about the usage and price, you can always request for refund by filling a ticket to the billing team.

[Костя Хомко]

Hi.

In more datails we have about 9000 of VM hours for 5 servers for windows Licensing. Is it related that Windows Licensing needs core workload licensing but not the whole server?

On Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 6:14:12 PM UTC+2, Digil (Google Cloud Platform Support) wrote:

Could you please explain a little bit more about your concern? How many instances are there in your GCE project? Have you checked the detailed invoice?.

The calculation for the monthly invoice depends on several factors including the number of instances you are having. In order to avoid confusion you can always make use the Google Cloud Platform Calculator, which will provide you an estimate of your usage. You can also check the pricing list for various machine types and its sub-component as well. 

[Костя Хомко]

Hello.

The issue is with Windows Licensing for 2008 server. There is about 9000 hours per month. That is to much for 5 VMs. But probably Google Cloud calculate every hour for cpu core workload but not for the whole server uptime. Thereby 5 servers * 22 hours * 30 days * 4 cores  = 14400 hours.

Am i right in mu assumtion?

On Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 6:14:12 PM UTC+2, Digil (Google Cloud Platform Support) wrote:

Could you please explain a little bit more about your concern? How many instances are there in your GCE project? Have you checked the detailed invoice?.

The calculation for the monthly invoice depends on several factors including the number of instances you are having. In order to avoid confusion you can always make use the Google Cloud Platform Calculator, which will provide you an estimate of your usage. You can also check the pricing list for various machine types and its sub-component as well. 

[Digil (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Have you checked the Google Cloud Platform Calculator? This will give you a precise idea on cost estimate. And yes, the instance uptime is also taken into account while generating the final bill. 

[Paul Nash]

Hello,

As described in our pricing documentation, Windows Servers are billed per vCPU, per minute. I've copied the relevant part of our docs page below. Note that this is a standard billing model for Windows licenses in cloud, and it is strongly tied to the way Microsoft prices Windows licenses (that we resell to you).

Windows Server images

Public images for several versions of Windows Server are available in either the Server Core configuration or the Server with Desktop Experience configuration. Both configurations are available at the following prices:

• $0.02 USD/hour for f1-micro and g1-small machine types
• $0.04 USD per core/hour for all other machine types

Standard machine types, high-CPU machine types, and high-memory machine types are charged based on the number of CPUs. For example, n1-standard-4, n1-highcpu-4, and n1-highmem-4 are 4-core machines, and are charged at $0.16 USD/hour (4 x $0.04 USD/hour).

Windows Server images are charged a 1 minute minimum. After 1 minute, Windows images are charged in 1 second increments. SQL Server images are charged a 10 minute minimum. After 10 minutes, SQL Server images are charged in 1 minute increments.

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