Your organization runs an application on virtual machines in Google Cloud. This application processes incoming images. This activity takes hours to create a result for each image. The workload for thi

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Options

• APurchase committed use discounts for the baseline load
• BPurchase committed use discounts for the expected spike load
• CLeverage sustained use discounts for your virtual machines
• DRun the workload on preemptible VM instances

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  10% (3)
• C
  83% (24)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Sustained use discounts (SUDs) are automatically applied by Google Cloud when Compute Engine VMs run for a significant portion of a billing month (beyond 25%), with discounts increasing incrementally up to 30%. Since this application runs continuously at a baseline level, it naturally qualifies for SUDs without any upfront commitment. Committed use discounts (options A and B) require a 1–3 year financial commitment, making them risky to apply to spike load and inflexible for variable workloads. Preemptible VMs (option D) can be terminated at any time, which is unsuitable for long-running, hours-long image processing jobs.

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