How to Save Money on Google Cloud Platform

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Google Cloud Platform is one of the fastest-growing cloud platforms, maintaining a steady position at a number three, behind AWS and Azure. Compute Instances is one of the most competitive IaaS solutions that Google Cloud offers.

Let’s use Cloud Scheduler, Google Pub/Sub and Cloud Functions to schedule automatic shutdown and startup of development instances.

The next step is to create cloud functions that listen to the startup and shutdown events from the Cloud Pub/Sub topics and start and shut down instances that have the provided label in the events.

You’ve configured two scheduled tasks to automatically stop your dev instances at the close of business, and start them at the start of business.

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