You are analyzing and defining business processes to support your startup's trial usage of GCP, and you don't yet know what consumer demand for your product will be. Your manager requires you to minim

The correct answer is B. Utilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost. Sustained are automatic discounts for running specific GCE a significant portion of the billing month: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discounts Committed is for workloads with predictable resource needs between 1 year or 3 year, discount is up to 57% for most

Submitted by ashley.k· Mar 30, 2026Optimizing technical and business processes

Question

You are analyzing and defining business processes to support your startup's trial usage of GCP, and you don't yet know what consumer demand for your product will be. Your manager requires you to minimize GCP service costs and adhere to Google best practices. What should you do?

Options

AUtilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provision a staff position for service cost
BUtilize free tier and sustained use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost
CUtilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provision a staff position for service cost
DUtilize free tier and committed use discounts. Provide training to the team about service cost

How the community answered

(47 responses)

A
6% (3)
B
72% (34)
C
17% (8)
D
4% (2)

Explanation

Sustained are automatic discounts for running specific GCE a significant portion of the billing month: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discounts Committed is for workloads with predictable resource needs between 1 year or 3 year, discount is up to 57% for most resources: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up- committed-use-discounts

Topics

#cost optimization#free tier#sustained use discounts#GCP billing

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