How to Analyze GCP Cloud Firewall Standard Rules: Data Processing Fee

[TNL]

I've had a very large increase in my data processing fees, but my VM networking has remained consistent. As well I haven't changed or altered my Firewall rules.

I've also confirmed that there's no updates to Cloud Functions either.

As well, I'm being billed on the `Standard` tier, and wonder if this was somehow switched on.

• How do I turn off the `Standard Rules` and move to `Essentials` (scroll down to pricing https://cloud.google.com/firewall?hl=en)
• And how do I find which services are contributing to this?

Billing Increase

VM Networking from Compute Engine Observability Dashboard

Sent Bytes in Monitoring Dashboard (Similar for Received)

[Marvin_Lucero]

Hi @TNL ,

There wasn't a specific one-click switch or toggle between Cloud Firewall Essentials and Cloud Firewall Standard. However, you can check this general guidance on how you might switch from Cloud Firewall Essentials to Cloud Firewall Standard by adjusting or configuring your setup. As per documention, you will be needing to observe the following:

a. Global network firewall policies and regional network firewall policies
b. IAM-governed Tags combined with network firewall policies 
c. Address groups combine multiple IP addresses and IP ranges into a single named logical unit.
d. VPC firewall rules that use network tags and service accounts filter incoming and outgoing traffic at the network level.

If you need further assistance with this, the Billing Support of GCP might be able to guide you with this. 

[arvindwill]

Instead of toggle, is there any way to find the list of Cloud Firewall Standard. So it will help to manually optimize it