Standard Tier
This tier is designed for maximum not unusual load balancing use cases. It gives lots of capabilities, such as worldwide load balancing, nearby load balancing, and network load balancing. The popular tier is billed primarily based on the amount of information processed by using the load balancer.
Pricing:
- Inbound data processed by using load balancer: $0.008 – $0.012 in step with GB (based on place)
- Outbound statistics processed by load balancer: $0.008 – $0.012 per GB (primarily based on region)
- Forwarding rules: $0.025 in step with an hour for the primary 5 rules, plus $0.01 per hour for each additional rule.
Features of Standard Tier
- Global load balancing: Distributes traffic to backends across multiple regions or zones.
- Regional load balancing: Distributes traffic to backends across a single region.
- Network load balancing: Distributes traffic to backends at the IP and port level.
- Autoscaling: Automatically scales the number of backends based on demand.
- Health tests: Tests the availability and health of backends.
- Session affinity: Directs traffic to the same backend for a sticky session.
- SSL/TLS termination: Terminates SSL/TLS connections on behalf of backends.
- HTTP/2 guide: A protocol that improves the performance of web applications.
Advantages of Standard Tier
- Most fee-effective tier for most use cases
- Offers a huge variety of capabilities
- Highly scalable
Disadvantages of Standard Tier
- Not as customizable as the top rate tier
- Does not provide all of the functions of the top class tier
Google Cloud Load Balancer Pricing – Analyzing the Cost and Benefits
Google Cloud Load Balancing is a completely managed service that distributes visitors throughout more than one instance of your application. It offers loads of features to help you enhance your programs’ performance, scalability, and reliability.
Important Topics for Google Cloud Load Balancer Cost
- Pricing structure of the Google Cloud Load Balancer
- 1. Standard Tier
- 2. Premium Tier
- 3. Internal tier
- Example Pricing according to the scaling of your application
- Free or trial version in Google Cloud Platform
- Pay-As-You-Go version
- Factors that affect the Pricing
- Use cases for which Google Cloud Load Balancer is a cost-effective solution
- How Scalability affects the cost of the Google Cloud Load Balancer?
- Hidden Costs in Gooogle Cloud Load Balancer
- Paid or free customer support for Google Cloud Load Balancer
- Benefits of using Google Cloud Load Balancer