Say you want a quick way to get started with GCP with minimal effort. That's what Google Cloud Launcher provides. It's a tool for quickly deploying functional software packages on Google Cloud Platform. There's no need to manually configure the software, virtual machine instances, storage or network settings. Although, you can modify many of them before you launch if you like. Most software packages in Cloud Launcher are at no additional charge beyond the normal usage fees for GCP resources. Some Cloud Launcher images charge users fees, particularly those published by third parties with commercially licensed software. But they all show you estimates of their monthly charges before you launch them. Be aware that these estimates are just that, estimates. In particular, they don't attempt to estimate networking costs since those will vary based on how you use the applications. A second note of caution. GCP updates the base images for these software packages to fix critical issues and vulnerabilities. But it doesn't update the software after it's been deployed. Fortunately, you'll have access to the deployed systems, so you can maintain them.