An organization with a commissions-based business model is struggling to predict cloud costs due to fluctuating revenue. How can the organization optimize the use of their cloud resources?

Google Cloud's Active Assist and Recommender service continuously analyze resource usage and provide actionable, data-driven recommendations to reduce waste and optimize costs. These recommendations identify idle resources, right-sizing opportunities, and commitment savings, which directly address cost unpredictability caused by fluctuating demand. This approach aligns cloud spending with actual business activity without requiring large upfront commitments.

Decentralizing financial decision-making is an organizational strategy that does not directly reduce or optimize cloud resource consumption or cost.

Sharing project ownership spreads administrative responsibility but does not influence how efficiently cloud resources are provisioned or consumed.

Increasing capital expenditure contradicts the cloud's pay-as-you-go model and would worsen cost predictability issues for a fluctuating revenue business.