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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question

As the new cloud architect for a media company, you discover two Compute Engine N2-standard-32 VMs that run 24Ă—7 in separate regions to support stateful analytics services. The services cannot tolerate restarts or performance degradation. The CFO has asked you to reduce compute costs quickly with as little engineering effort as possible and without introducing availability risk. Which Google Cloud cost-saving mechanism best satisfies these requirements?

  • Rely on sustained use discounts that are automatically applied after the VMs run most of the month.

  • Replace the two large VMs with an autoscaled managed instance group of smaller E2 VMs that can scale to zero when idle.

  • Purchase one-year committed use discounts for the required vCPU and memory in each region.

  • Convert the virtual machines to Spot VMs to obtain steep discounts when capacity is available.

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