Your team is using BigQuery as your central data warehouse. You are running a certain workload that you've run frequently over the last few days. It is a short, high capacity ana-lytics workload…

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Options

• AThere is no need for any pricing model the first 1 TB of query data processed per month is free.
• BOn-demand pricing
• CFlex Slots
• DFlat-rate reservations

• A
  15% (9)
• B
  7% (4)
• C
  74% (45)
• D
  5% (3)

Explanation

Flex Slots allow you to purchase BigQuery compute capacity (slots) for a minimum of 60 seconds, making them ideal for short bursts of high-capacity analytics. You buy slots on-demand, run your heavy workload, then release them - paying only for the time used. On-demand pricing (B) charges per TB of data scanned and is cost-effective for sporadic, unpredictable queries but can become expensive for high-capacity repeated runs. Flat-rate reservations (D) require monthly or annual commitments, which is better for sustained, predictable workloads - not short bursts. The 1 TB free tier (A) is irrelevant for a 'high capacity' workload. Flex Slots strike the right balance of flexibility and cost-efficiency for this pattern.

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