Committed Use Discounts (CUD)
Learn more about CUDs offered by North.Cloud's liquid cloud commitments.
Google Cloud CUDs
North optimizes your Google Cloud costs by autonomously managing, purchasing, and insuring Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) on your behalf. The platform automatically identifies and insures your organization’s existing GCP commitments, and can proactively make new cost-saving CUD purchases—all with minimal involvement required from your team.
North typically underwrites customers on an individual basis but, in general, prefers 1-year CUDs for Cloud SQL and 3-year CUDs for Compute Engine. Expect coverage to be split: up to 70% managed as resource-based CUDs (by North) and the rest (30% or more) as flexible, spend-based CUDs that North insures for additional flexibility.
Frequently Asked Questions about North’s Google Cloud CUD Coverage
How does North insure my existing commitments?
North will detect and insure your existing commitments at North's underwritting discretion, extending your flexibility & peace of mind on all of your cloud commitments.
How are project based CUDs managed?
Project based CUDs are managed using North Savings Pod architecture. North creates projects with a folder in your GCP org, and enabled CUD sharing to let the projects hosting the infrastructure to enjoy North CUD savings.
Why is there a split in Compute Engine CUDs that you use?
Letting customers enjoy some of their coverage as spend based & flexible, enabled more architecture freedom. Overall spend based commitments typically allow customers to change server/DB type more often then resource based commitments, enabling faster server/DB improvements & change windows. Norths coverage mixes both coverage types together to give customers both deep savings, and flexibility.
What does service cancelation look like with insured commitments?
For CUDs managed by North, they will leave the org per our handoff windows in our MSA. For insured by North commitments, during a service cancelation, the customer agrees as part of cancelation to release North of any/all remaining payback obligations for the CUDs North was previously insuring, and takes over full commitment of that CUD.
Will you cover anything else for us, such as BigQuery or CloudSpanner?
Yes North plans to support additional GCP CUD types very soon. Check in with your North account team to let us know what we should support next.
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