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GCP Compute Engine VM Instances

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GCP

GCP c2 and c3 VMs are good choices according to performance per price. It's even cheaper than customized VM types with reduced memories! GCP c2 VMs are compute optimized and are ideal for CPU intensive workloads. Note that GCP c2 spot VMs are even cheaper than AWS t2.nano VMs if you can stand your VM being preempted.

Investment

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General Tips

  1. Spend less money than you can make.

Low Risk Investment

Please refer to Low Risk Investments for detailed discussions.

Diversified Investment

Please refer to Diversified Investment for detailed discussions …

Diversified Investment

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. Index funds, ETFs and mutual funds are some popular ways of diversified investment. A mutual fund is actively managed (by a portfolio manager) while an index fund or ETF is passive …