# GCP Marketplace - Weaviate Shared Cloud

A Weaviate cluster is easy to deploy with Google Cloud Marketplace (GCP).

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- A Google Cloud account with sufficient credit / payment method.
- (Recommended) Familiarity with Google Cloud and the Google Cloud console.
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## Installation instructions

1. Go to Weaviate's [Google Cloud Marketplace listing](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/weaviate-gcp-mktplace/weaviate) page and click :kbd[Subscribe].
2. Configure and deploy Weaviate by following the on-screen instructions.

Once completed, you will have a [Weaviate Shared Cloud](../cloud/overview.md) deployment.

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- When you deploy Weaviate Shared Cloud through the GCP Marketplace, you're subscribing to a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that is specifically built for GCP customers.

- GCP will notify you once your Weaviate Shared Cloud cluster is available.

**This solution is ideal for:**

- Organizations requiring GCP billing integration.
- Organizations with regulatory requirements who need specific regional deployments.
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## Billing

You will be charged for Weaviate and associated resources directly by Google Cloud.

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If you cancel your Weaviate GCP marketplace subscription, your Weaviate organization and its clusters will be deleted by Weaviate.
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## Questions and feedback

Have a question or feedback? Here's how to reach us.

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Ask questions and connect with other developers on our **Community forum**.
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Weaviate Cloud user or customer? Find the right channel on the **Support page**.
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## Related pages

- [Agents](./agents-index.md)
- [AI-assisted Weaviate code generation](./ai-assisted-vibe-coding-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Authorization and authentication](./authorization-and-authentication-index.md)
- [Benchmarks](./benchmarks-index.md)
- [Best practices](./best-practices-index.md)
- [Client libraries](./clients-index.md)
- [Client Libraries / SDKs](./client-libraries-index.md)
- [Cloud](./cloud-index.md)
- [Cloud account management](./cloud-account-management-index.md)

# Agent Instructions

This portal answers questions programmatically. To receive a synthesized,
source-cited answer instead of crawling page by page, append the `?ask=`
query parameter to any page URL on this site:

    /guides/quickstart?ask=how+do+I+authenticate

Optional parameters:

- `&goal=<what-you-are-trying-to-do>` steers the answer toward your
  objective (e.g. `&goal=write+a+python+client`).
- `&version=<label>` scopes the answer to a mounted version when the
  portal publishes more than one.

The response is `text/markdown`: the answer followed by a `# Sources` list
of the portal pages it was grounded in. Status codes are the contract:

- `200` — the answer; `402` — the portal owner’s plan or answer credits are
  exhausted (surface this to your operator; do NOT retry); `429` — you are
  rate-limited; back off for the `Retry-After` seconds; `503` — the answer
  lane is temporarily unavailable; fall back to crawling the `.md` pages.

For the full corpus map read `llms.txt` at the site root; for the tool
surface (search + page fetch as MCP tools) see `/mcp`.