Google Cloud Optimization

Committed Use Discounts, BigQuery cost intelligence, and autoscaling.

GCP's discount model rewards commitment — but only if the sizing is right

Committed Use Discounts lock you into a spend level for 1-3 years. Get it wrong and you're either overcommitted and paying for capacity you don't use, or undercommitted and leaving guaranteed savings unclaimed. Meanwhile, BigQuery's on-demand pricing can spike without warning.

Data-driven commitment sizing and query-level visibility

OptCloud analyzes your actual sustained usage before recommending any CUD purchase, and breaks BigQuery spend down to the query and job level — so you can see exactly which workloads are driving cost before choosing between on-demand and flat-rate slots.

What GCP teams get with OptCloud

See BigQuery cost at the query level

Slot usage and bytes-scanned tracking down to individual queries and scheduled jobs means you can catch an expensive query before it becomes next month's surprise line item.

Example recommendation
BigQuery on-demand analytics workload

142 TB scanned last month at on-demand rates — a flat-rate slot commitment is recommended.

Before
$7,100/mo
After
$4,250/mo
Estimated savings$2,850/mo (40%)

Size Committed Use Discounts correctly, every time

We model your last 90 days of sustained Compute Engine and GKE usage against every available CUD term, showing the exact break-even point and expected savings before you commit — not after.

Right-size Compute Engine and GKE autoscaling

OptCloud reviews autoscaler configurations against real traffic patterns and flags over-provisioned node pools and instance groups that are scaling for peak load they rarely see.

GCP by the numbers

90 days
Usage history analyzed per recommendation
Query-level
BigQuery cost visibility
< 15 min
Time to connect your billing account