# 35 Google Cloud services. One place to cut the waste.

> LevelFour fixes waste with ready-to-merge pull requests, and your Google Cloud bill drops by up to 30%.

Source: https://levelfour.ai/integrations/gcp

Updated: 2026-10-23

## Find your service

### Compute

- **Compute Engine**: Latest machine families deliver better price-performance. Up to 30–40% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Functions**: Over-provisioned functions are a common waste pattern. Up to 25% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Run**: Right-size concurrency and memory. Reduce idle min-instance costs. Up to 25–40% savings · 24h
- **App Engine**: Instance class rightsizing and idle instance optimization. Up to 25% savings · 24h

### Databases

- **Cloud SQL**: Idle instances detected. HA right-sized to actual needs. Up to 30% savings · 24h
- **BigQuery**: Reservation management for predictable workloads. Up to 30% savings · 48h
- **Memorystore**: Right-size Redis/Memcached instances. Detect idle caches. Up to 25–40% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Spanner**: Autoscaler tuning prevents over-provisioning on high-cost instances. Up to 20–40% savings · 48h
- **AlloyDB**: Read pool optimization and idle instance detection. Up to 25–40% savings · 48h
- **Bigtable**: Autoscaling prevents over-provisioning. HDD for cold data. Up to 25–40% savings · 48h
- **Firestore**: Operation optimization and storage cleanup. Up to 20% savings · 24h

### Storage

- **Cloud Storage**: Tier infrequently accessed data. 40–60% savings on archive-eligible data. Up to 40–60% savings · 48h
- **Persistent Disks**: Eliminate orphaned disk costs. Optimize disk type. Up to 20% savings · 24h
- **Filestore**: Right-size file shares. Switch from Premium to Basic when IOPS allows. Up to 20–40% savings · 24h
- **Artifact Registry**: Image lifecycle policies reduce storage costs. Up to 20% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Backup and DR**: Backup policy optimization reduces storage costs. Up to 20% savings · 48h

### Networking

- **Cloud CDN**: Higher cache hit ratio reduces origin egress costs. Up to 15–30% savings · 48h
- **Cloud NAT**: NAT gateway rightsizing. Port allocation optimization. Up to 15–25% savings · 24h
- **Cloud DNS**: Eliminate orphaned DNS zones. Consolidate where possible. Up to 10% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Load Balancing**: Remove unused load balancers. Forwarding rule fees add up. Up to 15–25% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Armor**: Right-size WAF tier. Standard is sufficient for most workloads. Up to 15% savings · 48h
- **Cloud Interconnect**: Attachment capacity rightsizing for dedicated connections. Up to 15–25% savings · 48h
- **Cloud VPN**: Idle tunnel charges add up across regions. Up to 15% savings · 24h

### Analytics & AI/ML

- **Dataproc**: Preemptible workers save 60%. Ephemeral clusters for batch jobs. Up to 40–60% savings · 48h
- **Dataflow**: Worker rightsizing and autoscaling for streaming/batch pipelines. Up to 30–50% savings · 48h
- **Vertex AI**: Idle notebooks and Spot training for AI workloads. Up to 40–70% savings · 48h
- **Cloud Composer**: Environment sizing optimization for Airflow workloads. Up to 25% savings · 48h
- **Looker**: Unused licenses are a common overspend. Up to 20% savings · 24h

### Other

- **GKE**: Kubernetes cost allocation by namespace/team. Efficiency scores. Up to 30–50% savings · 24h
- **CUDs**: Coverage gaps filled. Unused commitments flagged. Up to 30–40% savings · 48h
- **Pub/Sub**: Remove orphaned topics. Reduce retention for non-critical pipelines. Up to 15% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Tasks**: Remove orphaned task queues. Up to 10% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Logging**: Log exclusion and routing reduce ingestion costs significantly. Up to 30–50% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Monitoring**: Custom metric costs scale with cardinality. Cleanup saves. Up to 20% savings · 24h
- **Cloud Build**: Right-size build compute. Caching reduces minutes. Up to 25% savings · 24h

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Which GCP services does LevelFour optimize?

35 Google Cloud services, including Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Memorystore, persistent disks, and more. The full list with the optimization applied to each is below.

### How much can I save on Google Cloud?

GCP optimizations average up to 30%. Actual savings depend on your current rightsizing, Committed Use Discount coverage, and idle resource levels.

### Does LevelFour apply GCP changes automatically?

No. LevelFour is read-only by default and proposes every change as an infrastructure-as-code pull request. Nothing is applied until you review and merge, or opt into supervised automation.

### How long does GCP setup take?

Under 15 minutes. You connect your projects with read-only access; there are no agents to install and no code changes required.

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## About LevelFour

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- **Cloud Savings**: 30% success fee on savings found and applied. No hidden charges, only pay on what you actually save.
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- **Scale**: $200 per month · Up to $7,500 spend/mo
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