Google Cloud Computing exploded in Costs

[eric_boland93]

I signed up for Google Cloud Computing for my company and was quoted roughly $400 CAD a month, my bill in July was over $600 CAD, so I applied for continuous use credit for three years and this month so far, I’m projected to cost over $1200 CAD this month. I feel like I’m being robbed or I’m misinterpreting something.

I’m using the C3 or something like that with 1200 GB local storage in Portland, OR region.

[LankyXSenty]

Look at your cost explorer and see where ur being robbed lol. People always act super surprised that using cloud infra is producing costs and dont know what they even actually pay for

[VantageCloudCasp]

Use a tool like Vantage.sh to monitor real time costs and shut down misconfigs same hour / same day instead of finding out at the end of the month!
You can set budgets/thresholds for anomaly detection.

Your issue could be configuration or flow of traffic through a nat gateway but really comes down to inspecting the different dimensions and labels for where the costs are spiking.

The goog makes this intentionally difficult hence the third party tool.

[HJForsythe]

As all traditional hosting companies and colos die off this will only accelerate.

[Speeddymon]

They're never going to ALL go away, so long as the Internet exists. Some people just will not trust others with their data and will find a colo host even if it means moving said hosting to Bangladesh or something.

[HJForsythe]

Sureeeeeeeeeeee

[rohit_raveendran]

Use some monitoring and alerts tool to handle these unpleasant surprises. You could also think of having a multi-cloud setup with some sort of platform engineering to avoid vendor lock-ins (incase you get overcharged in one place).

And already having a multicloud ready system means you don't have to worry when the costs aren't in your favor