Pricing Flashcards
1
Q
What’s the on-demand pricing scheme ?
A
standard price - pay per resource usage (can be time (hours/min/sec), or API call)
2
Q
Explain commited use discounts
A
agree to 1 or 3-years contract and you get a lower price than the on-demand scheme
3
Q
Explain sustain use discouns
A
when using resources for a period of continous usage, you get passive savings
4
Q
Explain preemtible VM instances pricing scheme
A
cheap instances but the risk of being interrupted
5
Q
Explain flat-rate pricing
A
only for BigQuery - prefer a query based price rather than paying on-demand
