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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!
  • 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 on certain machine types (example: E2 and A2)
  • RESTRICTION: Does NOT apply to VMs created by App Engine flexible and 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? Regions and Zones Compute Billing and Cost Planning Google Compute - Optimizing Costs and Performance in Google Cloud Platform Gcloud for Associate Cloud Engineer Instance Groups in Google Cloud Load Balancing in Google Cloud Platform Managed Services in Goog, cloud, cloud-billingBilling and Cost Planning in CloudMost providers: * Pay as you go pricing model * Reservations * Spot Instances How billing works in GCP: * Sustained use discounts 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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