Google Cloud

If you are an admin of your organization and using Google Cloud Platform then download and use the Google Cloud Console application for Android and iOS to receive notifications and keep a pulse on the billing.

Google Compute Engine

Save money by turning off the VMs during your after hours if you can on Google Cloud Compute Engine. Always look for CPU and memory usage on the VMs and scale down if the machines are not used to full extent.

Google BigQuery

It is encouraged to use Standard SQL for Google BigQuery if you are developing a new applicatoin. This has more features than the legacy SQL. If you have old apps using legacy SQL then upgrade them to use Standard SQL.

Google Cloud Storage

Define a lifecycle for your buckets before it is created on Google Cloud Storage. Customers who don’t define lifecycle and don’t set the lifecycle option for the buckets end up having challenge to clean up the buckets or pay more money by keeping the...

Google Cloud Storage

If you are loading data into BigQuery using simple ETL approach of loading files to Google Cloud Storage and loading that file to BigQuery use the utilities in Google Cloud SDK instead of writing custom programs using the APIs. This will save lot of time as the...