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# Best Practices for Installing Tableau Server on the Google Cloud Platform

## This is archived content

Deployments on public clouds continue to be supported but the content for third-party public cloud deployments is no longer updated.

For the latest Tableau Server deployment content, see the [Deploy](https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/install.htm) section of Tableau Server help.

For those customers who have access, we recommend Tableau Cloud. For more details, see:

- [Tableau Cloud Manual Migration Guide](https://help.tableau.com/current/guides/migration/en-us/emg_intro.htm)
- [Tableau Cloud Trial for Admin](https://help.tableau.com/current/server-linux/en-us/install.htm)
- [Tableau Cloud: Get Started for Admin](https://www.tableau.com/learn/get-started/online-admin)

## Introduction

The following best practices make installing Tableau Server in the cloud a better experience.

- Read the Tableau Server [Plan Your Deployment](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/server/en-us/plan.htm) section.
- Read the Tableau Server on [Google Cloud Platform Prerequisites](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/server/en-us/ts_gcp_prerequisites.htm).
- Read the Tableau Server [Security Hardening Checklist](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/server/en-us/security_harden.htm).
- If you’re new to the cloud, use the [Google Cloud Platform free tier](https://cloud.google.com/free/) to get familiar with working in the cloud before you deploy Tableau Server on the Google Cloud Platform.
- Read Google Cloud Platform [best practices for enterprise organizations](https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations).
- Read about and understand [network topology](https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/vpc) on the Google Cloud Platform and how to architect it.

## Keeping Costs Down

The Google Cloud Platform offers cloud-based services on a pay-as-you-go basis. Costs are determined by the services you run and amount of time you use them. Different combinations of instance types and sizes have different costs. For more information about services pricing, see [Google Cloud Platform pricing](https://cloud.google.com/pricing/). You can estimate your total monthly costs using the [Google Cloud Platform pricing calculator](https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/). You can also compare on-premises vs the cloud using the [Google Cloud Platform TCO calculator](https://cloud.google.com/pricing?authuser=0&hl=fi#calculators).

To help monitor and control usage costs on an ongoing basis, you can set up billing alerts for the Google Cloud Platform to alert you when your monthly Google Cloud Platform costs reach your predefined spending threshold. For more information, see [Set budgets and alerts](https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6293540?visit_id=0-636416330629139015-862362861&rd=1) at the Google website.