Optimize performance and cost — Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

The official GCP documentation our Optimize performance and cost practice questions are cited to. Review the primary sources, then practise.

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.