Google Cloud VM Instance Recommendations

Today, when I logged into my Google Cloud VM Instance Overview, it greeted me with a recommendation! I pay about 5USD/month for that instance, and it’s running hot (according to the graphs). – Therefore I was more than happy to hear that I could basically continue running this at 0 cost.

Clicking on that “Save $5/mo” turned up this:

Seems like Google wants to tell me something…

GCLOUD: The Annoyance

Whenever I need to do something urgent on glcoud, this will greet me for 15 (or 30) minutes:

Provisioning your Google Cloud Shell machine...