AWS I think has something similar, but I'm not sure it's the same, CloudWatch[0]. Cloudwatch giving alerting and can kill underutilized instances. But this siz

AWS I think has something similar, but I'm not sure it's the same, CloudWatch[0]. Cloudwatch giving alerting and can kill underutilized instances. But this sizing feature from GCP seems to allow for instance resizing rather than just deletion. As far as why this may benefit google: while a customer will pay the same regardless, that means there are less resources in GCPs overall pool of potential machines that others can use. And to support the overall capacity of all their customers, Google needs more machines to handle them all. I'm guessing Google would rather have most of their machines active, as building out less racks/datacenters is probably better for the bottom-line overall. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/details/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/details/