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Billing optimization strategies - Google Cloud Platform Tutorial
From the course: Google Cloud Foundations
Billing optimization strategies
- [Instructor] All right, so this is a very popular topic coming up next. And that's billing optimization strategies. Just think of it as cost reduction, but more importantly, when you're looking at cost and value within GCP, you're trying to find that balance. Whether you're a big enterprise or whether you're a small developer working on an application, you're trying to find that right balance. And ideally, everyone wants to be able to lower cost. So let's kind of go over a few options here to do that within GCP. First thing, let's look at rightsizing. Now rightsizing is a way that you can optimize all your workloads by basically reducing some of the hardware you're using or just overall the utilization of it. And for the first thing, what we want to do, let's take a look at what that looks like in the console. First thing, this is what Google shows you on the webpage here. So when you go to the Google Cloud docs for…