[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...