Recommendations for GCP

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Source for Recommendations: Spend data in the CloudZero platform.

Frequency: Checked once per day. If the Recommendation is marked as Ignored, it will still be updated, but notifications will no longer be sent for any updates.

CloudZero provides the following Recommendations for GCP:

Compute

Compute Engine

• Delete Idle Address: Identifies Google Compute Engine external IP addresses that are idle and can be released to reduce costs. Prerequisite: Set up a GCP Recommender connection.
• Delete Idle Disk: Identifies Google Compute Engine persistent disks that are blank and idle and can be deleted to reduce storage costs. Prerequisite: Set up a GCP Recommender connection.
• Delete Idle Image: Identifies Google Compute Engine custom images that are idle and can be deleted to reduce storage costs. Prerequisite: Set up a GCP Recommender connection.
• Google Compute Engine Instance Rightsizing: Identifies Google Compute Engine instances that are over-provisioned and can be rightsized to better match workload requirements. Prerequisite: Set up a GCP Recommender connection.
• Snapshot and Delete Idle Disk: Identifies Google Compute Engine persistent disks and snapshots that are idle and safe candidates for cleanup. Prerequisite: Set up a GCP Recommender connection.
• Stop Idle VM Instance: Identifies Google Compute Engine VM instances that are idle and can be stopped to reduce compute charges. Prerequisite: Set up a GCP Recommender connection.

Databases

Cloud SQL

• Google Cloud SQL Resize Over-Provisioned Instances: Identifies Google Cloud SQL instances that are over-provisioned and can be resized to reduce costs. Prerequisite: Set up a GCP Recommender connection.

Storage

Cloud Storage

• Disk Snapshots Exceeds Target Threshold: Identifies when the cost of GCP Compute Engine disk snapshots exceeds 5% of the total Compute Engine disk storage cost.
• Multi-Region Storage Exceeds Target Threshold: Identifies GCP Cloud Storage with Multi-Region bucket location that exceeds cost thresholds.
• Standard Disk Below Target Threshold: Identifies opportunities to optimize usage of Standard Persistent Disk storage.
• Standard Storage Class Exceeds Target Threshold: Identifies opportunities to optimize GCP Cloud Storage classes based on spend.