Do load balancer run inside a compute engine in gcp?

Question

I have created 2 load balancers (for http and https) and they are connected to a backend storage. Now when I check the Infrastructure summary in the monitoring tab, I could see 2 different vms running. Do the cost for load balancer is related to these vms?

I have read the load balancer documentation and it was not clear how the LB's works internally.

Answer 1

It depends on what type of Load Balancer you're running, but basically it is all running and managed by the internal infrastructure of Google.

The HTTPS/HTTP are managed by the GFE and Andromeda which are the software-defined.networks build by Google. You can read about this in the following documentation .

About the cost of the Load Balancer, it depends on the architecture of your environment. For this reason, I suggest you to check the following documentation which explains on detail the Load Balancer's pricing . In summary you will be charged depending on the traffic that goes trough the LB. This can be stimated using the GCP calculator .