PRODUCTION SCENARIO
A bank's customer chatbot handles a steady 300 requests per second during business hours. Finance wants a fixed monthly AI bill and operations wants capacity reserved for this workload rather than shared.
Which consumption option meets both needs?
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Answer: Provisioned Throughput, a fixed-term subscription that reserves throughput
Provisioned Throughput is a fixed-cost, fixed-term subscription that reserves throughput for a supported model, which is what gives both a predictable bill and capacity that is not shared. Google recommends it for real-time production applications such as chatbots that consistently need high throughput and a deterministic cost.