Optimize performance and cost

Official references for this objective

• Google Cloud — Network Service Tiers overview  |  Google Cloud Documentation

  Premium Tier delivers traffic on Google's premium backbone, while Standard Tier uses regular ISP networks. Use Premium Tier to optimize

• Google Cloud — Cloud Storage | Google Cloud

  Archive storage The lowest cost, highly durable storage service for data archiving, online backup, and disaster recovery. Data that can be stored for 365 days.

• Google Cloud — What is Active Assist  |  Recommender  |  Google Cloud Documentation

  Active Assist FinOps hub , which provides cost-optimization recommendations for billing account managers.

• Google Cloud — Compute Engine | Google Cloud

  To save on batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads, use Spot VMs to reduce your bill from 60-91%.

• Google Cloud — Cost Management | Google Cloud

  Automated budget actions Configure automated actions using programmatic budget notifications to throttle resources and cap costs to prevent unexpected activity from affecting your budgeted cloud

• Google Cloud — Managed Lustre | Google Cloud

  1,000 MB/s/TiB Best for high-performance workloads want AI/ML training where throughput is critical. Starting at $0.60 per GiB per month

• Google Cloud — Well-Architected Framework: Cost optimization pillar  |  Cloud Architecture Center  |  Google Cloud Documentation

  In the cloud, the costs for most cloud resources are treated as OpEx, where costs are incurred when the cloud resources are consumed.