[kavehkhorram]

Love what you are doing here! GCP just raised prices [1] so I wonder if there are still these region-based discounts to be had.

Just my 2 cents: Would be amazing if this could automatically change to the most cost-effective machine type for you, so the user wouldn't have to go in and do it manually. Perhaps that's something you're already working on?

On a related note, I built Usage.AI [2] to automatically buy and sell Reserved Instances on AWS to cut costs.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/14/inflation-is-real-google-c... [2] https://usage.ai

[Cyclenerd]

Thank you very much for your feedback, I am very grateful. The cost change is not related to compute (vCPU and memory). I will have a close look at it in October, because I need to apply the price adjustment to my other project: https://github.com/Cyclenerd/google-cloud-pricing-cost-calcu...

The "Instance Picker" automatically sorts by price per hour. So at the top is always the most affordable VM according to your filter. Everyone has different requirements. I work a lot with SAP and therefore filter a lot by the SAPS benchmark.

To automate this step I provide the SQL export. You can then quickly select the correct machine type.

When your VM is active in the Google Cloud for the 8 days, Google automatically recommends the size (vCPU and memory) of the VM based on the workload. More: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/apply-machin...