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Google Cloud Expands Coverage for Compute Flex CUDs

🔔 Google Cloud has expanded its Compute Flexible Committed Use Discounts (Flex CUDs) to cover additional VM families and serverless offerings, delivering broader savings and greater deployment flexibility. The update adds enhanced discounts for memory‑optimized M1–M4 instances and HPC‑optimized H3 and H4D families, and extends coverage to Cloud Run request-based billing and Cloud Functions. A new spend-based billing model applies discounts directly to eligible usage rather than issuing credits, and introduces changes to the Billing UI, Cloud Billing export to BigQuery schema, and Cloud Commerce Consumer Procurement APIs. Customers can opt in immediately; those who do not will be auto-transitioned to the new model on January 21, 2026, while new Billing Accounts created on or after July 15, 2025 will default to the updated model.