Disk Snapshots Exceeds Target Threshold

This recommendation identifies when the cost of GCP Compute Engine disk snapshots exceeds 5% of the total Compute Engine disk storage costs. This may indicate that there are an excessive number of snapshots.

Consider the following to reduce cost of the snapshots:

• Reducing the frequency of scheduled snapshots to weekly if the workload allows
• Deleting snapshot schedules for workloads that no longer require it
• Shorten the retention policy for auto generated snapshots
  • Note: If you don't set a retention policy, all your auto-generated snapshots will be retained indefinitely. You will incur storage costs for these snapshots until you delete them manually.
• Update the Source disk deletion policy to ensure snapshots from deleted disks are removed
• Switching the location of snapshots to Regional instead of Multi-Regional when high availability is not necessary
• Removing snapshots older than 90 days