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Sustained use discounts

  • Automatic discounts for running VM instances for significant portion of the billing month
    • Example: If you use N1, N2 machine types for more than 25% of a month, you get a 20% to 50% discount on every incremental minute.
    • Discount increases with usage (graph) sustained-disc-gcp.png
    • No action required on your part! Automatically applied by the platform itself
  • 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 * Associated with a project 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 Setup Billing Live Migration & Availability Policy Scenarios Similar to AWS EC2, Azure Virtual Machines Status: #idea Tags: gcp, google-cloud-engineer,
  • RESTRICTION: Does NOT apply on certain machine types (example: E2 and A2)
  • RESTRICTION: Does NOT apply to VMs created by Google App Engine flexible and Google Dataflow

Status: #idea
Tags: gcp, google-cloud-engineerGoogle Associate Cloud Engineer Noteswhy use cloud? https://www.in28minutes.com/gcp-bookshelf https://www.in28minutes.com/downloads/09-google-certified-associate-cloud-engineer/CoursePresentation-GoogleCertifiedAssociateCloudEngineer.pdf how do projects work in gcp? cloud projects and accounts Resource Hierarchy Organization Level Folder Level Project Level IAM who * single account * group can do what (rules) * basic * predefined * custom scope observability monitoring billing account load balancing Regions and Zones, CloudCloudCase just like cloud computing (SaaS, etc) * [ ] UI * [ ] book * [ ] zulfani * [ ] exercises * [ ] UI * [ ] assignment * [ ] responsi, cloud-billingBilling and Cost Planning in CloudMost providers: * Pay as you go pricing model * Reservations or Committed Use Discounts * Spot Instances * Preemtible Instances How billing works in GCP: * Sustained use discounts * Google Compute Engine - Billing How billing and planning costs works in Azure: * Azure Free Account * Azure Hybrid Benefit * Azure Pricing Calculator * Total Cost of Ownership Calculator * Azure Cost Management Dashboard * Azure Advisor Status: #idea Tags: Cloud References

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