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Committed Use Discount

Committed Use Discount (CUD). GCP's equivalent of AWS Reserved Instances or Azure Reservations, but with two flavors. Resource-based CUD commits to a specific machine family in a specific region, up to 57% off for 3-year. Spend-based CUD commits to a dollar amount per hour, up to 28% off, more flexible, applies across families.

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Foundations takes about five hours. The first lesson is nine minutes.

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Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 30% average cloud cost cut· 4 platforms · 1 console· Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 30% average cloud cost cut· 4 platforms · 1 console·