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Submitted by hassan_iq· Mar 30, 2026

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Your company wants to optimize Google Cloud costs for their development and staging environments. These environments are workstations used by developers Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM local time. Currently, the environments run on a fleet of nl-standard-4 Compute Engine instances that operate 24/7, leading to a high monthly cost for resources that are idle more than 70% of the time. You need to implement a solution that significantly reduces the monthly cost of these non-production environments without impacting the development team's productivity during work hours. What should you do?

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  • ASchedule the virtual machines to start and stop to match your team's work schedule.
  • BPurchase three-year committed use discounts (CUDs) for the existing nl-standard-4 instances.
  • CUpgrade all instances to the N2 machine series.
  • DRe-architect the environments to run on a regional managed instance group (MIG) with

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