GCP
- Regions (similar to aws regions)
- Zones (similar to aws availability zones)
instance type = machine families
General Purpose storage optimized compute optimized memory optimized accelerator optimized
volume type = disk type
all disks types are bootable standard pd balanced pd performance pd extreme pd local ssd
asia-south1 asia-south1-a asia-south1-b asia-south1-c
provisioning models type = purchase type spot on demand pre emptiable vms CUDS (committed used discounts) discounts offered for committed use of specific sustained used discounts (SUDS) long running workloads suitable reservation = reserve your compute vm / resource 7 vms = discounts amount of resources (vcpu, mem) generally workloads are predictable