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Spec sheet

Purpose
Cloud Workstations provides fully managed development environments aimed at security-sensitive enterprises.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Free plan
NoRead 22 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Compliance
Google announced that Cloud Workstations is covered under the Google Cloud HIPAA BAA on September 24, 2026.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, USARead 28 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Founded
1998Read 28 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Access
Developers can access workstations through a browser-based IDE, local IDEs, or SSH.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
AI integration
Gemini Code Assist can provide code guidance, generate code, and offer inline suggestions in the Cloud Workstations base editor.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Code protection
BeyondCorp Enterprise integration provides context-based access policies and can prevent code exfiltration through actions such as download, copy, paste, and print.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Company headquarters
Google lists its headquarters at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043.Read 30 Sep 2026 · about.google
Cost components
Charges include Compute Engine and Persistent Disk resources, a management fee of $0.05 per virtual CPU per active hour, and a control plane fee of $0.20 per cluster per hour.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Custom environments
Teams define reproducible environments using preconfigured or custom container images, including tools, libraries, extensions, files, and startup scripts.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Developer tools
The product supports third-party tools such as GitLab and TeamCity, including tools hosted externally, on premises, or in other clouds.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Encryption
Google-managed keys encrypt workstation resources at rest by default, and customers can use customer-managed keys with Cloud KMS.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
IDE support
Supported options include Code OSS, JetBrains IDEs through JetBrains Gateway, Posit Workbench, and other container-runnable editors.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Idle cost control
An inactivity time limit can automatically stop workstations after the specified inactive period.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Network security
Workstations can run inside a VPC and use VPC Service Controls, private ingress and egress, Cloud Audit Logs, and granular IAM controls.Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com

Plans and prices

Workstation management fee $0.05 a month Metered while the workstation is running Charged for each active workstation Read 22 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Control plane $0.20 a month Pricing applies in the us-central1 example region; regional pricing may vary Applies regardless of whether workstations are in use Read 22 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Usage-based pricing — e2-standard-2 (us-central1) $0.17 a month $0.16701142 / 1 hour; compute and workstation management, with control plane and Persistent Disk billed separately 2 vCPUs · 8 GiB · us-central1 price; regional prices may vary Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com

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