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When I opened my GCP cloud shell today the "boost" feature was gone! Tried all the menus, even tried the option given here : Enabling Google Cloud Shell "boost" mode via gcloud cli but still no progress. Does someone else also have the same issue?

Vardaan Singh
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The Cloud Shell boost mode feature option is no longer available or needed. They removed that feature, also I noticed that they removed the boost mode information in Google Cloud Shell official documentation website but they upgraded/boosted everyone's Cloud Shell.

I saw the changes of my Cloud Shell memory was upgraded from before - 1.7G(default) / 3.7G(boosted) to present - 15G or 16GB(default mode). To check it in your Cloud Shell run the command free -h.

I'll update my answer once I have a link or more information or they provide documentation about this.

JM Gelilio
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  • Previously, Google allocated a `g1-small` instance size for Cloud Shell and an `n1-standard-1` for boost mode. Your link does not refer to boost mode. Do you have another link? Do you know what instance size is now allocated for Cloud Shell? – John Hanley Nov 13 '20 at 06:27
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Running the free -h command produced this result in my Cloud Shell as of December, 2020:

total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         15Gi       1.0Gi        12Gi       4.0Mi       2.6Gi        14Gi
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