A long thread on understanding Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine pricing and how to utilize the various pricing levers at your disposal via the Google Cloud Cost Calculator. Let’s go. (contd)

#GoogleCloudPlatform #ComputeEngine #Pricing #GCPCostCalculator Google Compute Engine provides a core infrastructure component : Virtual Machines (VM) that are classified into diff families (general, memory optimized, compute optimized) & each family has various machine types. See this guide on how to choose :cloud.google.com/compute/docs/m… (contd)

Excellent article by @janakiramm that clearly calls out both the issue & the opportunity. (...contd) forbes.com/sites/janakira… The challenge that I am seeing is teams not able to understand if they are building an application or a platform. Another challenge is to win the argument of using a higher level abstraction on top of Kubernetes, within the organization. (...contd)