Sustained use discounts
Sustained use discounts are applied to projects that use large amounts of instance-hours in a given month. Sustained use discounts are applied automatically, and instance-hours are aggregated from all instances within the project. This means that 30 n1-standard-1 instances running for one day will accrue the same discount rate as a single n1-standard-1 instance running for 30 days.
Sustained use discounts are applied in steps, where each step represents a total percentage of instance-hours running in a month. For example, instance hours over 25% of the total month receive a discount rate of 80% of the base rate. Once instance-hours exceed 50% of the total month, the discount rate for any additional instance hours receive ...
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