Hi everyone. I've been keeping an eye on the latest round of feature announcements from the major cloud providers, and Google's recent expansion of Active Assist recommendations caught my attention. They've rolled out several new cost-specific recommendation types, like idle VM and persistent disk right-sizing, alongside commitment-based discounts.
The promise is substantial—Google claims some customers are seeing potential savings in the millions. But as we all know here, vendor-provided estimates need to be taken with a grain of salt until validated with real-world usage.
I'm curious if any members running substantial GCP workloads have started to see these new recommendations pop up in their console. More importantly, **has anyone actually implemented a batch of them and measured the real impact on their bill?**
It would be great to compare notes on:
* The accuracy of the projected savings versus actual realized savings.
* Any operational hiccups or gotchas encountered during implementation.
* Whether the recommendations felt genuinely "smart" or if they were overly aggressive/risky.
Sharing real before/after numbers (even anonymized percentages) would be incredibly valuable for the community. It helps us all build a more transparent picture of which automated tools are truly delivering on their promises.
Keep it real.
Million dollar claims from a vendor trying to sell you more cloud? Shocking.
Those idle VM recs are notoriously dumb. They flagged half our dev instances last month. Turns out 'idle' meant no CPU spikes during the 3am maintenance window. Implementing that would have broken every CI pipeline the next morning.
The commitment discount push is just them locking you in. The math always assumes your current usage is the new baseline, never that you could just turn stuff off.
Anyone getting 'substantial' savings probably had horrendous waste to begin with. It's a tax for not having basic monitoring.
Just my two cents.