Roadmap › Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for .NET and Full Stack Developers › Module: Delivery and Cost
Lessons in this course (9)
9. Cost management and the Google Cloud Architecture Framework
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- Pricing perks: sustained use discounts (automatic for VMs running much of the month), committed use discounts (1/3 years), Spot VMs, per-second billing, Cloud Run scale-to-zero, free tier.
- Controls: budgets and alerts, billing export to BigQuery for analysis, labels for cost allocation, recommender (idle VMs, oversized instances), lifecycle rules on buckets, BigQuery cost control (partitioned/clustered tables,
maximum_bytes_billed, avoidSELECT *). - Architecture Framework pillars: system design, operational excellence, security/privacy/compliance, reliability, cost optimisation, performance optimisation (plus sustainability guidance).