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Shielded VM pricing
This document explains Shielded VM pricing details. You can also use the
Google Cloud Pricing Calculator to estimate the cost of
using Shielded VM.
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on
Cloud Platform SKUs
apply.
Pricing overview
Shielded VM does not incur additional costs on top of Compute Engine
pricing. For more information on Compute Engine pricing, see
Compute Engine pricing.
Using Shielded VM does not affect contractual discounts that are
applied to underlying Compute Engine services.
For Compute Engine, disk size, machine type memory, and network usage
are calculated in gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 230 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB).
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on
Cloud Platform SKUs
apply.
You can also find pricing information with the following options:
See the estimated costs of your instances and Compute Engine
resources when you create them in the Google Cloud console.
With Google Cloud's pay-as-you-go pricing, you only pay for the services you
use. Connect with our sales team to get a custom quote for your organization.
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