GCP FinOps #003: Boring Predictability With BigQuery Slots

Google has announced changes to the pricing model for Google BigQuery, which will go into effect on July 5th, 2023 These changes are intended to offer more

slots, which are the virtual CPUs BigQuery Datadog's dashboard for BigQuery provides key insights into BigQuery costs and query efficiency

bigquery slot reservation In the past year, if this company had been using the default pay-as-you-go pricing for BigQuery, they would have spent 18 million dollars on

bigquery slot pricing Standard $ $ - Per Slot Hour Low-cost option for standard SQL analysis; Capped at 1,600 slots per reservation; Max 5 reservations per admin; %