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Reservations

Commit for 1 year or 3 year plans for cost reduction

  • Like advanced hotel booking
  • Secures space at lower rates
  • Ensures availability on arrival
  • Avoids premium on-the-spot rates

Use case:

  • consistent resource usage / workloads with predictable resource needs
  • long-term projects

How reservation works in Azure:

  • Save up to 72% off pay-as-you-goPay as you go* No upfront costs and pay for what you use * Scale resources as needed for cost optimization Status: #idea Tags: az-900, azure, cloud, cloud-billing, ccp, aws, gcp, google-cloud-engineer References

How reservation/committed use discounts works in GCP:

  • Up to 70% discount based on machine type and GPUs
  • Applicable for instances created by Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Compute EngineGoogle Compute EngineGCP service used to provision and manage virtual machines * Create and manage lifecycle of Virtual Machine (VM) instances Load balancing* and *auto scaling* for multiple VM instances Attach storage** (& network storage) to your VM instances * Manage network connectivity and configuration for your VM instances Steps when creating a VM Instance in Google Compute Engine Similar to AWS EC2, Azure Virtual Machines Status: #idea Tags: gcp, google-cloud-engineer, cloud, cloud-compute References
  • RESTRICTION: Does NOT apply to VMs created by Google App Engine flexible and Dataflow

How reservation works in AWS:

  • AWS EC2 Reserved Instances

Status: #idea
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