TL;DR:

• Archera's Guaranteed Commitments, already live on AWS and Azure, now cover Google Cloud. 
• They're called Guaranteed Committed Use Discounts (GCUDs), and they let you capture Google Cloud's steepest discounts without the multi-year lock-in risk. 
• Commit for as little as 30 days. Save up to ~46%. 

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The problem with Google Cloud discounts

Google Cloud's committed use discounts (CUDs) are deep. They're also brutal to commit to safely:

• No flexible discount option under a year
• A hard gap between the 1-year and 3-year tiers with nothing in between
• Resource-based CUDs you can't cancel, downsize, or modify once purchased

Translation: to get the good rate, you have to bet 1–3 years on a usage forecast. Guess wrong, and you're paying for capacity you're not using. That risk is exactly why so many Google Cloud teams stay on pay-as-you-go and leave savings on the table.

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What we built

Guaranteed Committed Use Discounts (GCUDs) are Archera's answer. It’s the same guarantee we already bring to AWS and Azure Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, now extended to Google Cloud.

Here’s how it works: you commit to a Google Cloud CUD through Archera. If your usage drops and you'd otherwise be stuck overpaying, Archera rebates the unused portion of your commitment back to you. You get the discount. We carry the risk.

What that unlocks:

• Terms as short as 30 days. No more forced 1–3 year bets.
• Net savings ~29% (30-day) to ~46% (1-year), subject to underwriting.
• You don’t carry the underutilization risk, we do. If you overcommit, Archera rebates the unused portion.
• Broad service coverage (Google Compute Engine (GCE), BigQuery, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Spanner, AlloyDB, and more) with recommendations pulled from your real usage, not guesswork.

You control what's purchased and guaranteed, the premium you pay is always less than the savings you capture.

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Why this is a bigger deal than "one more integration"

Archera's core product is the guarantee itself: GRIs (Guaranteed Reserved Instances) and GSPs (Guaranteed Savings Plans), both already live on AWS and Azure, plus now GCUDs (Guaranteed Committed Use Discounts) on Google Cloud. Three flavors of the same idea: capture commitment-level discounts without carrying commitment-level risk. 

With GCUDs live, that guarantee now spans all three major clouds — AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — managed from one platform. If you're multi-cloud, you no longer need a different risk tolerance depending on which cloud you're looking at.

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Who this is for

Guaranteed Commitments are built for teams that want deeper savings without the additional financial risk, whether it's a short-term workload (1-3 months) or longer term workloads (1 yr+) you want a deeper discount on.

Running heavy negotiated enterprise discounts or GPU-heavy workloads? Talk to us directly.

Two ways to start:

1. Get a free savings analysis → archera.ai/demo
2. Create a free account → app.archera.ai/signup

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