Migrate to Virtual Machines pricing
The pricing plan for Migrate to Virtual Machines is based on your current version:
You can use the Google Cloud Platform pricing calculator to create an estimate of your monthly Google Cloud charges, including VM pricing.
Migrate to Virtual Machines 4.x pricing
The Migrate to Virtual Machines 4.x software solution is provided at no charge for migrations into Google Cloud. However, Google Cloud charges for resources such as Compute Engine instances, storage, and networking which are necessary to perform migrations.
Pricing for Migrated Workloads
Migrate to Virtual Machines uses Google Compute Engine instances. You are billed for each of those instances according to Compute Engine's pricing, until the instances are deleted. Compute Engine resources are billed on a per-second basis with a one-minute minimum usage cost.
Prior to migration, you can utilize the Migrate to Virtual Machines rightsizing feature which, along with instance type recommendations, provides estimated costs for VMs using published Compute Engine pricing and sustained use discounts. Additional compute discounts may apply
During migration, customers incur costs for:
- Compute VMs to support Migrate to Virtual Machines Manager, Cloud Extensions, and worker nodes
- VMs Storage
- Cloud Storage
- Network traffic
Google Cloud does not charge for inbound data transfer, such as migrating storage from another environment to Google Cloud.
If enabled in the Migrate to Virtual Machines Manager, customers incur costs for:
After migration, workloads running on Google Cloud incur costs according to regular Google Cloud pricing. You can use the Google Cloud Platform pricing calculator to create an estimate of your monthly Google Cloud charges, including VM pricing.
Pricing for AWS to Google Cloud migrations
Migrations from AWS incur costs on AWS for:
- EC2 instances launched by Migrate to Virtual Machines on AWS
- EBS volumes and usage
- Network traffic
See AWS Pricing for details.
Pricing for Azure to Google Cloud migrations
Migrations from Azure incur costs on Azure for:
- VM instances launched by Migrate to Virtual Machines on Azure
- Disks and usage
- Network traffic
See How Azure pricing works for details.
Migrate to Virtual Machines 5.x pricing
The Migrate to Virtual Machines 5.x service is provided at no charge for migrating VMs to Google Cloud. However you can incur charges for resources consumed during replication, such as charges for storage and for processing instances.
Use of Compute Engine instances
VMs instantiated on Compute Engine as part of the test-clone or cut-over operation incur costs according to regular Compute Engine general-purpose machine types pricing.
After migration, workloads running on Google Cloud incur costs according to regular Google Cloud pricing. You can use the Google Cloud Platform pricing calculator to create an estimate of your monthly Google Cloud charges, including VM pricing.
Support Pricing
Paid Support for Migrate to Virtual Machines is available. For more information, see Getting Support.
What's next
- Read the Migrate to Virtual Machines documentation.
- Try the Pricing calculator.
- Learn about Migrate to Virtual Machines solutions and use cases.