Build a robust and cost-effective gen AI strategy

A practical guide to optimizing generative AI costs on Google Cloud's Vertex AI without sacrificing performance. Covers the layered options available: Dynamic Shared Quota (DSQ) for standard pay-as-you-go, Usage Tiers that scale TPM limits with spend, Priority PayGo for spike protection via a simple HTTP header, and Provisioned Throughput (PT) for mission-critical workloads requiring an availability SLA. Also explains how to combine these options — PT for predictable baseload, Priority PayGo for peaks, and standard PayGo for non-critical traffic. Bonus coverage of Batch API and Flex PayGo, both offering 50% discounts for latency-tolerant workloads like batch classification, evaluations, and data annotation.