title: Does stopping google cloud instance stop all charges?
body: <p>Ive read: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/stopping-or-deleting-an-instance" rel="noreferrer">https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/stopping-or-deleting-an-instance</a>. In it they explain that:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>You can stop an instance temporarily so you can come back to it at a
    later time. A stopped instance does not incur charges, but all of the
    resources that are attached to the instance will still be charged.
    Alternatively, if you are done using an instance, delete the instance
    and its resources to stop incurring charges.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>However, i don't know how things are allocated in google cloud so im not sure what this means.</p>
  
  <p>Say I stop my instance, I guess i am still using their storage, but im not using any CPU right? Does that mean that i will only pay for storage but not for the CPU and GPU hours? </p>
  
  <p>Also how does google stop my instance? I know that if you suspend an instance in something like "Virtualbox" you can start it and start from when you left off. Is that what google does? Can I stop the instance halfway through running something and have it continue where it left off when i start the instance again?</p>