This has been around for quite sometime[1].
It's also cool to note that there are usually free credits involved in most Google Cloud competitions and some Google Udacity courses. Off the top of my head, I think I might have enjoyed a total of about $3000 since 2013.
Oh and there's the $100000 for Startups[2] that'd be cool to get at some point in time.
1: [http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/11/google-cloud...]
I signed up for this last month. Apparently only most things are free, as I got a bill for $4 after one month. I tried contacting support to figure out what's up with that. I haven't heard back yet.
The submission's title is somewhat misleading, it's $300 in credit to use for 60 days. Comparing to other IaaS trials this is better than Azure[1], the same amount but less time as vCloud Air[2], and difficult to compare directly with AWS[3].
[N.B. I work on vCloud Air]
[1] http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/
If you are getting started with Google cloud and looking for apps (WordPress, Drupal, etc) or dev environments (Rails, Node.js, PHP, etc.) give a try to the free Google Cloud Launchpad http://google.bitnami.com (Disclaimer, I am one of the founders)
For new customers only, apparently.
I've signed up for some of Google's cloud services in the past, but not their IaaS stuff, and never as a paid account. I wonder if it's safe to create a new account to get this free trial, or will that just risk getting my account banned?
I find Google Cloud ridiculously expensive.
I can get a VPS for $1.5 per month and it will have 50GB SSD, 1GB RAM, 2 CPU cores, 1 Gbps link.
Google Cloud's cheapest server, f1-micro, costs $7.3/month, comes with 0.6GB RAM, a shared CPU, and zero storage.
Google has to do something extraordinary to prove it can provide adequate support. It's support reputation is absolutely abysmal - why would I build a business on system of a company that tries to not have human contact?