GCP GCS Bucket Missing Lifecycle Policy
Without a lifecycle rule every object stays in the class it was written to and is billed at that class's rate indefinitely, however cold it becomes.
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Google Cloud
Found, explained, fixed.
Findings with a dollar figure attached, idle, oversized, orphaned, unscheduled and undiscounted spend.
Detect
ZopNight checks this automatically across Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.
Explain
Every finding says exactly what to change: Add a lifecycle policy to the GCS bucket. Where the saving can be proven it is priced; where it cannot, the finding says so.
Fix
After a guided review, where you confirm the change, ZopNight applies a lifecycle policy, then checks the change took.
- Applies to
- GCS Buckets on Google Cloud
- The fix, by hand
- Open Cloud Console → Cloud Storage → Buckets → the resource → Lifecycle tab.
- Click ADD A RULE. Pick the action (delete, set storage class) and condition (age, last-access).
- Save the rule. The first daily run applies it; review the audit log after the first transition.
ZopNight does this for you after a guided review.
- Category
- Rightsizing. Resources sized for headroom they never use. A smaller size runs the same workload for less.
- Where it appears
- The Savings tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
- Rule ID
RC-140- Full reference
Related checks
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