Google Cloud

Obtaining Access to Google Cloud Platform

Sign up for the Google Cloud Free Tier.
Google will offer additional credits and resources (e.g. IOT kits) to participating teams in the prototype and MVP phases of the challenge based on team needs and goals.
We also have additional credits available for teams with needs exceeding the free tier of services. Email us at nittanyai@psu.edu for additional details.

Google Cloud Free Tier

The Google Cloud Free Tier offers $300 in initial credits in addition to a number of Always Free services, including:

Service	Always Free Limits
App Engine	28 frontend instance hours per day, 9 backend instance hours per day 5 GB Cloud Storage 1 GB of egress per day Shared memcache 1000 search operations per day, 10 MB search indexing 100 emails per day App Engine Free Quota
Cloud Datastore	1 GB storage 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes, 20,000 deletes Cloud Datastore Free Quota
Compute Engine	1 non-preemptible `f1-micro` VM instance per month in one of the following US regions: Oregon: `us-west1` Iowa: `us-central1` South Carolina: `us-east1` 30 GB-months HDD, 5 GB-months snapshot 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations per month (excluding China and Australia) Your Always Free `f1-micro` instance limit is by time, not by instance. Eligible use of all of your `f1-micro` instances each month is free until you have used a number of hours equal to the total hours in the current month.Usage calculations are combined across the supported regions. Compute Engine offers discounts for sustained use of virtual machines. Your Always Free use doesn’t factor into sustained use. GPUs and TPUs are not included in the Always Free offer. You will always be charged for GPUs and TPUS that you add to instances. Compute Engine Free Usage Limits
Cloud Storage	5 GB-months of Regional Storage (US regions only) 5000 Class A Operations per month 50000 Class B Operations per month 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations per month (excluding China and Australia) Always Free only available in `us-east1`, `us-west1`, and `us-central1` regions. Usage calculations are combined across those regions. Cloud Storage Free Usage Limits
Cloud Pub/Sub	10 GB of messages per month Cloud Pub/Sub Free Usage Limits
Cloud Functions	2 million invocations per month (includes both background and HTTP invocations) 400,000 GB-seconds, 200,000 GHz-seconds of compute time 5 GB network egress per month Cloud Functions Free Usage Limits
Google Kubernetes Engine	No cluster management fee for clusters of all sizes. Each user node is charged at standard Compute Engine pricing Google Kubernetes Engine Pricing
Stackdriver	Free monthly logging allotment Free monthly metrics allotment Free Stackdriver Products
BigQuery	1 TB of querying per month 10 GB of storage each month BigQuery Pricing
Cloud Vision	1,000 units per month Cloud Vision Pricing
Cloud Speech-to-Text	60 minutes per month Cloud Speech-to-Text Pricing
Cloud Natural Language	5,000 units per month Cloud Natural Language Pricing
Cloud Shell	Free access to Cloud Shell, including 5 GB of persistent disk storage Cloud Shell Details
Cloud Build	120 build-minutes per day Cloud Build Pricing
Cloud Source Repositories	Up to 5 Users 50 GB Storage 50 GB Egress Cloud Source Repositories Pricing

Training

Android

Cloud

Google

developers.google.com
Google Play Console (for app developers)
Learn to develop the next generation of web applications
An open-source library for machine intelligence (org)
Interactive environment for research: CoLab
Google Assistant SDK
Google Awareness API
Google APIs Explorer
ML Kit
Nearby (enable experiences among nearby people and devices)
Google products and services index
BLE (Blue tooth low energy) API

Wearables

Building apps for wearables

Design

“Design Artificial Intelligence into your DIY projects” (article on design.google)
Design.google (Material Design specs and other UX resources)

Help

Google Cloud Platform Developers Slack Channel
Community Support: Whether or not you have a paid support plan, as a Google Cloud Platform customer you have access to a large community of enthusiasts and experts to share ideas with and get support from. In many cases, the Googlers who write, maintain, and support Cloud Platform contribute to these communities, including Stack Overflow and Google Groups.
Cloud Platform Consol Help

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