Tag: Billing

Resources about Billing collected from the weekly GCP Weekly newsletter — a hand-curated collection of Google Cloud Platform news, technical articles, tutorials, videos and release notes. Each entry below links back to the original GCP Weekly issue and retains its publish date and title, giving you a focused, searchable knowledge base for this topic.

BigQuery Billing Nov. 18, 2024

BigQuery HLL: How we cut COUNT(DISTINCT) query costs by 93% using HyperLogLog - COUNT(DISTINCT) is a fundamental operation, but it doesn’t scale efficiently — so we turned to HLL to address this challenge.

Billing GKE Autopilot Istio Kubernetes Nov. 11, 2024

From Autopilot to Standard GKE: The Key to 15x Cheaper Istio - Istio proxy costs for 10-nodes GKE cluster reduced from $3065 to $185 per month.

Billing FinOps Nov. 11, 2024

My FinOps Collection - A collection of articles about FinOps.

BigQuery Billing FinOps Nov. 4, 2024

How we save tens of thousands of dollars on BigQuery - By implementing targeted optimizations, Capchase reduced their BigQuery costs by up to 54%, saving tens of thousands of dollars each month. Strategies included understanding their bill, optimizing third-party tool usage, clustering and partitioning tables, building tables incrementally, querying smaller tables, removing zombie analytics, only querying what is needed, defining data freshness, and using BigQuery quotas.

Billing DevOps FinOps SRE Oct. 21, 2024

How We Reduced Costs on GCP by Optimizing a Single SKU: Network Inter Zone Data Transfer Out - Significantly reduced GCP costs by optimizing a single SKU: Network Inter Zone Data Transfer Out. By analyzing data transfer patterns, consolidating workloads, and leveraging zonal resources, a 45% reduction was achieved in inter-zone data transfer, resulting in monthly savings of approximately 20% for the GCP bill.

BigQuery Billing dbt Looker Sept. 30, 2024

Linking Looker activity with BigQuery costs - Monitoring and optimizing the BigQuery costs generated by Looker usage.

Billing Cloud Dataflow Data Analytics Official Blog Streaming Sept. 9, 2024

Cut costs and boost efficiency with Dataflow's new custom source reads - Dataflow's new custom source reads feature helps cut costs and boost efficiency in streaming environments by better distributing workloads and proactively relieving overwhelmed workers with load balancing.

Billing FinOps Gemini Vertex AI Vertex AI Agent Builder Sept. 2, 2024

Decoding the Price Tag: Estimating Google Gemini AI Costs - Navigate the complexities of Google Gemini AI pricing and make informed decisions for your business.

BigQuery Billing Storage Sept. 2, 2024

Uncover the upcoming BigQuery Price change in autumn `24 - Google‘s upcoming storage transfer cost and network changes for BigQuery and how to get ready for them!

Billing FinOps July 29, 2024

Cloud Cost Cutting Myths Busted: How We Unlocked Huge Savings With Minimal Effort on GCP - By focusing on simple, high-impact actions such as eliminating unnecessary logs, optimizing cloud storage, migrating legacy data, right-sizing Cloud Run resources, and resizing Compute Engine instances, the team at Adauris made over $30,000 in annual savings.

Billing DevOps Docker Terraform July 22, 2024

Deploy Cost-Effective Spot Instances for Testing Environments in GCP with Terraform - This article discusses how to set up cost-effective spot instances for testing environments in Google Cloud Platform using Terraform.

Billing Generative AI LLM July 22, 2024

Control LLM costs with context caching - Context caching is a cost-saving technique for large language models (LLMs) with extensive context windows. The cached content can be used for subsequent prompts, and the number of input tokens cached are billed at a reduced rate.

Billing Compute Engine FinOps Official Blog June 17, 2024

Five more ways to save on Compute Engine costs - Google Cloud offers various ways to optimize Compute Engine spending. You can save costs by letting go of external IPs, automating machine on and off cycles, considering Spot VMs, comparing regions for the best deals, and introducing automated time limits for VMs. These strategies can help you manage your cloud spending effectively and make the most of your cloud investment.

AI Billing Data Analytics June 10, 2024

How We Halved Our Data Pipeline Costs Using Applied AI - A digital marketing agency built a data pipeline using Google Cloud Platform to ingest data from various marketing APIs into BigQuery for analysis. To optimize processing costs, they applied a hill climbing algorithm with a logarithmic probability function to each job, finding the optimal chunk size for faster and cheaper processing. This resulted in a 50% reduction in processing costs within a month of deployment.

Billing FinOps Official Blog May 20, 2024

Elevate your FinOps strategy: Optimize with FinOps hub, now GA - FinOps hub enables you to supercharge your FinOps practices and optimize costs with intelligent insights and actionable recommendations. Rightsize resources, reduce waste, and rate optimization with committed use discounts (CUDs), so you can invest those savings directly into innovation. FinOps hub is now generally available.

AWS Billing Cloud Storage Infrastructure May 13, 2024

Billed for unauthorized requests? Google Cloud Storage vs. AWS S3 - Can unauthorized access to Google Cloud Storage lead to unexpected bills?

BigQuery Billing May 13, 2024

How to save 90% on BigQuery storage - Tips to reduce BigQuery costs.

Billing Cloud Data Fusion April 22, 2024

Cloud Data Fusion: Tracking Pipeline Spend - TL;DR Using cluster labels in compute profiles is a great way to track spend at a pipeline level.

BigQuery Billing FinOps Official Blog March 25, 2024

BigQuery customers save up to 54% in TCO compared to alternative cloud data platforms - A report from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group.

Big Data BigQuery Billing dbt Feb. 12, 2024

Reducing BigQuery Costs by 100–200x with dbt Incremental Models - Reducing costs for dbt models in BigQuery.

Billing DevOps FinOps GKE Kubernetes Jan. 22, 2024

Optimizing Your Google Kubernetes Engine Costs — Part 2: The Bin Packing Problem - This article explores the bin packing problem in Kubernetes with special reference to GKE.

Billing FinOps GKE Official Blog Jan. 22, 2024

Introducing granular cost insights for GKE, using Cloud Monitoring and Billing data in BigQuery - With Cloud Monitoring metrics in BigQuery (now in Preview), you can combine billing data with resource utilization metrics, empowering you to perform detailed analyses in BigQuery.

Billing FinOps Infrastructure Jan. 15, 2024

How to reduce your Google Cloud Compute Engine Bill by 50% with Committed Use Discounts — Part 1 - Only about 20% of the Google Cloud users I speak with have a Committed Use Discount Strategy.

BigQuery Billing FinOps Jan. 15, 2024

Ultimate Guide to Saving Time and Money with BigQuery - Whether you’re a seasoned data professional or just beginning to explore the capabilities of BigQuery, this guide is crafted to provide you with practical, actionable insights to enhance your experience and efficiency.

Billing FinOps Networking Official Blog Jan. 15, 2024

Cloud switching just got easier: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud - Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google Cloud.

BigQuery Billing Official Blog Dec. 4, 2023

Cost management in BigQuery: how to control spending with budgets and custom quotas - Managing BigQuery costs with budgets and custom quotas.

Billing GKE Kubernetes Nov. 27, 2023

How to change Kubernetes PVC storage class & decrease the size - About optimising Kubernetes Persistent Volume costs.

Billing FinOps Official Blog Nov. 20, 2023

Demystifying Cloud Pricing - Shedding some light on the cloud pricing models that apply to all major cloud service providers (CSPs), not just Google Cloud, and how you can use these insights to understand more about how you’re using your cloud platform.

Billing GKE Autopilot Kubernetes Oct. 30, 2023

Estimating the Cost of Kubernetes Deployment on GKE Autopilot - Predicting the Cost of Your Kubernetes Deployment Prior to Cloud Migration.

AlloyDB Billing Official Blog Oct. 30, 2023

Save up to 52 percent on your database compute costs with AlloyDB committed use discounts - By committing to a consistent amount of compute usage for a one- or three-year period, you can get deep discounts: a 25% discount for a one-year commitment and a 52% discount for a three-year commitment.

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