[ This is part 3 of the series. Check-out the Introduction and AWS .] Google's Cloud Computing platform was unknown to me when I started this experiment. I knew it was there, and I knew people used it. Just not as many as Amazon or Azure. However, if an organization could rival Amazon's technology footprint, it would have to be the massive efforts of the ubiquitous search and email giant. Unlike AWS, Google's computing platform offers a $300 credit for the first year of service and Always Free service model; you can read more about GCP Free Tier . With a free $300 in burning a hole in my pocket, I build a machine using the 'n1-standard-1' template and placed it in the US-Central(Iowa) region. The n1-standard is a 1vCPU machine with 3.75GB of RAM, running Debian Linux. With the exception of the region, all of these configurations are similar to the t2.micro instances built in AWS. NOTE: There are shared core f1-micro and g1-small instances that I could have bu...