The quota of 24 CPUS per Region is mentioned in the Google Cloud. Is that distributed as 8 per zone in the region?
We are not able to allot more than 8 CPUS for the instances in the same zone and the error says "Quota 'CPUS' exceeded. Limit: 8.0"
The limit is based on the Regions and Zones only. I was able to create more VCPUs in the other Regions and Zones. Free Trial doesn't limit you with the number of VCPUs. We have not such statement even in the google documentation that it will limit you to 8.0 VCPUs for the free trial.