Optimize costs with Committed Use Discounts

Committed use discounts (CUDs) provide discounted prices in exchange for your commitment to use a minimum level of resources for a one-year or three-year period. Depending on the service, you can get a resource-based CUD in exchange for your commitment to use a minimum level of Compute Engine resources in a region, or a spend-based CUD in exchange for your commitment to spend a minimum amount on a product or service.

Get information about CUDs and the services that they are available for.

If you want to know whether your current usage patterns would benefit from a CUD, learn about using the CUD recommender.

Analyze your CUDs

After you've purchased commitments, you can use the CUD reports to analyze the effectiveness of your discounts: