Google Cloud Console Charges

Google Cloud Cloud Foundations & Onboarding
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Our google console charges have gone up to like $300 per month.

Is there a way to reduce these charges?

Thanks

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Hi Mark_Mutuku,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community!

There could be several reasons why bill charges are high. It can be non optimized resources, Overprovisioned Clusters, Lot of stored data, Large instances, and more.

Here’s the breakdown of how to approach reducing your GCP costs:

  1. Understands your costs
  2. Go to Console > Billing > Reports
  3. Use the Cost Table
  4. Use Label and Filter on billing reports1. Implement Cost Reduction Strategies
  5. If you’re using Google Compute Engine(GCE), you may use this documentationshared by @Moazzam as your guideline.
  6. Best practices for running cost-optimized Kubernetes applications on GKE
  7. Best Practices for Bigquery
  8. For Cloud Storage:
  9. Check for Old backup or unused buckets
  10. Use appropriate storage: Standard,Nearline, Cold line, or Archive1. Best Practices for Google Cloud Networking1. Set up Billing Bdugest and Alerts
  11. Go to Billling > Budgets & Alerts
  12. Create Budgets for your projects/services and Set Alert Thresholds
  13. Use the Recommender, it provides AI-driven suggestions for cost savings, performance improvements, and CUD recommendation.

For more detailed guidance, please contact Cloud Billing support.

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