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Auto-suspend Compute Engine VM upon idle?

It appears that a Compute Engine VM cannot be configured to auto-suspend if the VM is idle for X minutes. 

This would be a very useful feature to reduce VM costs, so why doesn't it exist?

Cynically, I'm guessing that this feature does not exist because GCP likely makes a lot of money from users who forget to suspend/stop their VMs. 

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