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An enterprise is planning to migrate its large on-premises data center environment—consisting of hundreds of virtualized Linux and Windows application servers alongside relational databases—to Google Cloud.
Executive leadership and finance stakeholders require a comprehensive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) evaluation over a 5-year projection before approving the migration budget. The financial assessment must accurately account for on-premises operational overheads, dynamic resource right-sizing rather than static over-provisioned allocations, and cost-optimization strategies like long-term usage commitments.
Which approach should the cloud architect recommend to generate this financial assessment and demonstrate value to stakeholders?
Configure Cloud Billing budget alerts in an empty Google Cloud project, enable Active Assist recommenders to capture idle capacity, and project 5-year savings based on automatic sustained use discounts across all database and application tiers.
Collect on-premises hardware capacity specifications manually, input equivalent virtual machine sizes into the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator using on-demand list pricing, and exclude data center facility expenses to focus solely on direct compute savings.
Deploy a small pilot environment in Google Cloud using Spot VMs, record the monthly running costs in Cloud Billing, and linearly extrapolate those expenses across the entire 5-year enterprise workload inventory.
Use Google Cloud Migration Center to perform automated asset discovery and performance profiling, configure migration preferences with right-sizing and Committed Use Discounts (CUDs), and generate a 5-year TCO and pricing report comparing on-premises operational costs against Google Cloud.
Configure Cloud Billing budget alerts in an empty Google Cloud project, enable Active Assist recommenders to capture idle capacity, and project 5-year savings based on automatic sustained use discounts across all database and application tiers.
Collect on-premises hardware capacity specifications manually, input equivalent virtual machine sizes into the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator using on-demand list pricing, and exclude data center facility expenses to focus solely on direct compute savings.
Deploy a small pilot environment in Google Cloud using Spot VMs, record the monthly running costs in Cloud Billing, and linearly extrapolate those expenses across the entire 5-year enterprise workload inventory.
Use Google Cloud Migration Center to perform automated asset discovery and performance profiling, configure migration preferences with right-sizing and Committed Use Discounts (CUDs), and generate a 5-year TCO and pricing report comparing on-premises operational costs against Google Cloud.
Google Cloud Migration Center is a unified platform designed to accelerate cloud migration journeys by discovering on-premises assets, evaluating performance metrics, and estimating cloud infrastructure costs and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Using Migration Center provides an automated, standardized, and data-backed financial model that directly aligns technical sizing with executive ROI requirements, avoiding under- or over-estimation of multi-year operational expenditures.
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