Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

What are the Google Cloud cost-saving plugins?

The Cloud Scanning product has a collection of plugins reporting unused services and misconfigurations that add unnecessary costs to your Google Cloud account.

Here is the list of those plugins:

IAM

  • Service Limits

Cloud Functions

  • Cloud Function Labels Added

Cloud Composer

  • Environment Labels Added

Pub/Sub

  • Topic Labels Added

Storage

  • Bucket Labels Added
  • Bucket Lifecycle Configured

SQL

  • Storage Auto Increase Enabled
  • SQL Instance Labels Added

Dataproc

  • Dataproc Cluster Labels Added

Compute

  • Disk Labels Added
  • Image Labels Added
  • Autoscale Enabled
  • Disk In Use
  • Disk Old Snapshots
  • Instance Labels Added
  • Snapshot Labels Added
  • Frequently Used Snapshots
  • VM Max Instances

CloudBuild

  • Trigger Has Tags

Resource Manager

  • Compute Allowed External IPs

DNS

  • DNS Zone Labels Added

BigTable

  • BigTable Instance Labels Added

BigQuery

  • Dataset Labels Added

Kubernetes

  • Cluster Labels Added