Question

A company's finance team notices that their Compute Engine spending has grown steadily, and they suspect many VMs are oversized or idle. The cloud operations team wants an automated way to receive specific, data-driven suggestions to reduce costs without manually inspecting every resource. Which Google Cloud capability should they use?

Accepted Answer

Recommender (Active Assist), which analyzes usage and provides rightsizing and idle-resource recommendations

Answer

Cloud Billing budget alerts to notify them when spending exceeds a threshold

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Committed use discounts to lock in lower pricing for the existing VMs

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Cloud Monitoring dashboards to visualize aggregate CPU and memory metrics