Committed use discounts (CUDs) provide discounted prices in exchange for yourcommitment to use a minimum level of resources for a one-year or three-yearperiod. Depending on the service, you can get a resource-based CUD in exchangefor your commitment to use a minimum level of Compute Engine resourcesin a region, or a spend-based CUD in exchange for your commitment to spend aminimum amount on a product or service.

Get information about CUDs and the services that they are available for.

If you want to know whether your current usage patterns would benefit froma CUD,learn about using the CUD recommender.

Analyze your CUDs

After you've purchased commitments, you can use the CUD analysis report to analyze the effectiveness of your discounts:

• To learn how to analyze your spend- or resource-based CUDs, seeAnalyze the effectiveness of your CUDs.

• For an overview of your commitments,use theCommitted use discounts page.

• Learn about purchasing resource-based commitments for Compute Engine.

Related topics

• Overview of committed use discounts
• Purchasing spend-based committed use discounts
• Purchasing resource-based committed use discounts
• View your Cloud Billing reports and cost trends
• Understand your savings with cost breakdown reports
• Export Cloud Billing data to BigQuery
• View your cost and payment history