Google Cloud unknown "Storage PD Capacity" charges
Recently, a charge for "Storage PD Capacity" started showing up in Google Cloud. According to the charge, I'm using 7.27 GiB somewhere even though I don't directly use any VMs or Storage Disks.
The only Compute Engine product that I use is 1 Google Cloud Run service which has no persistent storage. My service uses a static outbound IP address which I configured using this guide. This uses a Serverless VPC Access Connector which has 2 f1-micro instances active at all times (it never scales past that). However, I don't see any mention of persistent storage used by these instances on the pricing page (nor can I think of why they would use 7GB).
The only other product I use is Google Cloud API Gateway which I don't think would need storage, especially considering it doesn't even cache responses.
The only thing that I have to go off of is that these charges started appearing on April 16. On this day, I made the following changes:
- moved my Cloud Run service from us-central1 to us-east4
- moved my API Gateway from us-central1 to us-east4
- moved my static IP address from us-central1 to us-east4, following this guide again
By "moved" I mean deleted and recreated from scratch.
$0.32 a day isn't much but just trying to understand where this storage is being used!
After a few weeks of wasted back and forth with Google Cloud support, I was able to get to the bottom of this.
TLDR; Persistent Disk (PD) Storage has a free tier in us-central1 but no free tier in us-east4. So after moving VPC Serverless Access Connector to us-east4, I started getting charged for PD storage.
VPC serverless access connectors use Compute Engine Instance Groups under the hood. Here's a screenshot from Google support (this seems to be an internal-only view as it's not visible from for me in the console): 
These are VMs that use Persistent Disk (PD) Storage. When I switched the VPC serverless access connector from us-central1 to us-east4, the PD storage also changed: 
Previously, I hadn't noticed the "Storage PD Capacity" charge because it was 0. After switching to us-east4, the cost became non-zero and so I noticed it. Based on the SKUs,
- https://cloud.google.com/skus/?currency=USD&filter=D973-5D65-BAB2 shows that PD in us-central has a free tier "0.00 USD (Free) per gibibyte month, for 0 to 30 gibibyte month, per month per account"
- https://cloud.google.com/skus/?currency=USD&filter=8AF1-1146-E7DA shows that PD in us-east4 does NOT have a free tier, which is why I only started getting charged for this after migrating
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