CDL - Pricing

Question 1

What is a pricing report?

Answer 1

Report detailing SKU for each product or service

Question 2

What are the 7 types of pricing options offered by GCP?

Answer 2

A) Free trial

1. Free tier
2. On-demand
3. Committed use discounts
4. Sustained use discounts
5. Preemptible VM instances
6. Flate-rate pricing
7. Sole-tenant node pricing

Question 3

What are the differences between Sustained, Preemptible pricing?

Answer 3

Preemptible - think of it like short term rentals with steep discounts, but the product can be stopped at any time.

Batch and bursty jobs?

Sustained - think of it like a subscription service, with greater discounts with greater use.

Question 4

What is the difference between flate-rate and sole-tenant pricing?

Answer 4

Flat rate - A fixed free for certain services/resource regardless of utilization.

Sole-tenant pricing - Pricing for a physical compute engine SERVER that hosts your projects ONLY.

Eligible for sustained, not committed, use discounts only.

Question 5

What is on-demand pricing? What is it ideal for?

Answer 5

Billings based on the degree consumption of cloud resources.

PAYG - hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds OR by API calls ($1 ever 1000 transactions)

Ideal use case:
1. low costs + flexible
2. Only pay per hour
3. Short-term, spiky, unpredictable work loads

Question 6

What are Sustained Use Discounts (SUDs)? Under what condition to SUDs not apply?

Answer 6

They are automatic discounts for running specific compute engine resources for a significant portion of the month.

Do not apply to VMs created using the App Engine Flexible environment & Dataflow & E2 & A2 machine types

Question 6

What are CUDs? (GCE)

Answer 6

A deeply discounted VM for committed year/multi-year contracts of 1-3 yrs.

Ideal use case:
1. Predictable workloads

Con:
1. You pay regardless of actual use

Question 7

What types if machine-typea are associated with SUDs?

Answer 7

1. compute-optimized machine types
2. Memory “ “ “
3. Sole-tenant nodes (10% premium costs)
4. general purpose custome & predefined machine types.
5. GPU devices

Question 8

What is Flate Rate pricing? Which GCP service does it apply to?

Answer 8

Applied to BigQuery

BQ offers flat rate pricing for high-volume or enterprise customers who prefer stable monthly costs versus paying on-demand for price per GB processed.

Question 9

How does Flate rate pricing work?

Answer 9

Works by purchasing dedicated query processing capacity, measured by BQ slots.

If you exceed capacity, BQ will queue up slots (w/ no additional fees)

Question 10

What is sole-tenant node pricing?