Best Practices for Installing Tableau Server on the Google Cloud Platform

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Introduction

The following best practices make installing Tableau Server in the cloud a better experience.

Keeping Costs Down

The Google Cloud Platform offers cloud-based services on a pay-as-you-go basis. Costs are determined by the services you run and amount of time you use them. Different combinations of instance types and sizes have different costs. For more information about services pricing, see Google Cloud Platform pricing(Link opens in a new window). You can estimate your total monthly costs using the Google Cloud Platform pricing calculator(Link opens in a new window). You can also compare on-premises vs the cloud using the Google Cloud Platform TCO calculator(Link opens in a new window).

To help monitor and control usage costs on an ongoing basis, you can set up billing alerts for the Google Cloud Platform to alert you when your monthly Google Cloud Platform costs reach your predefined spending threshold. For more information, see Set budgets and alerts(Link opens in a new window) at the Google website.