Is the GCP/AWS free tier sufficient for the lab exercises?

ChihitoX

I just signed up for this course and wanted to ask those who've gone through it, or the administrators. From your experience, is the GCP/AWS free tier sufficient for the lab exercises?

fcioanca

Hi, the labs were designed in such a way that they can be done on a free tier without issues.

ChihitoX

Thank you. That should make life a little simpler.

chrispokorni

On GCP you receive a "credit" of a certain amount for 1 year. Your usage for the "free tier 1 year" is billed against that credit. If you are not cautious about your usage, you will run out of credit pretty fast. I used to stop my instances as soon as I was done working on them, to avoid wasting my credits. I used the 2 vCPU instances and I was ok for an entire year.

-Chris