[tecleandor]

In my experience with GCP, go through a Google partner (that will aggregate multiple clients to get discounts) and you'll be able to get commitment discounts with $500K/year or even less. But don't save too much money during your commitment period: if you don't expend your commitment, you'll pay for it anyway, and you might even lose some discounts.

Also, one trick to inflate your commitment expenses is asking your SaaS providers if it's possible to pay them through AWS or GCP marketplaces: it often counts against your commitment minimum expense, so not everything has to be instances and storage.

[dilyevsky]

You can commit right there in the console - no need to work with a partner unless you want “flex” commit where saving is less. Even with 3y commit its still nowhere near cheap compared to buying servers and renting colo space especially for bandwidth and storage

[tecleandor]

It's not the same commitment. When doing a commitment through a partner, you're doing an expense commitment (let's say, 600k in a year) in ALL your expenses. Well, except for Google Maps API it seems :P. So not tied to an specific product or type of instance, as the typical commitment, but to your whole GCP billing.

From this, you get a wide range of discounts in a bunch of products, not just instances. And I think those discounts go on top of some of the other discounts you regularly have, but I'm not sure and I'd had to check our billing.