[tecleandor]

> Google charges for static IP addresses on GCP which should not be a thing if they get allocations for free.

Same as in AWS (IIRC) in Google Cloud you don't get billed for static IP addresses if they are in use:

"If you reserve a static external IP address and do not assign it to a resource such as a VM instance or a forwarding rule, you are charged at a higher rate than for static and ephemeral external IP addresses that are in use.

You are not charged for static external IP addresses that are assigned to forwarding rules."

https://cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing

[bullen]

That's not true, I have 3 static IPs connected to VMs and they charge me for them:

External IP Charge on a Standard VM Usage 2021-11-01 2021-11-30 2,XXX.XXX hour 50.XXXXXSEK

So ~$2 per IP in USE per month!

>gcloud compute addresses list

ERROR: (gcloud.compute.addresses.list) Some requests did not succeed:

- Request had insufficient authentication scopes.

We need to move away from these companies before it's too late... they are incompetent and rent seeking.

They also do not rebate your free instance if you shut it off and change the instance type of the instance that had the rebate, even if you change it back.

And there is no recourse, no support, no way to get help.

[bullen]

I just had to authenticate apparently:

  NAME  REGION        ADDRESS          STATUS
  euro  europe-west1  X.X.X.X          IN_USE
  asia  asia-east1    X.X.X.X          IN_USE
  iowa  us-central1   X.X.X.X          IN_USE

[tecleandor]

OK, now I see. I got certified a couple years ago and seem like they introduced this pricing past year.

So "...you are not charged for static external IP addresses that are assigned to forwarding rules", yes, but a VM is not a forwarding rule :P

So you gotta pay for external IPs attached to a VM, but not to a Load Balancer. Seems like they're trying to incentivize using LBs to use less IP addresses, I guess...