--- title: Optimizing BigQuery to Reduce Operational Costs - Video description: Unlock substantial savings today! Achieve up to a 50% reduction in BigQuery costs via clustered tables and billing optimization strategies. image: https://www.c2cglobal.com/hubfs/Article%20Images/Optimizing%20BigQuery%20to%20Reduce%20Operational%20Costs%20%28full%20video%29.jpg --- [![c2c logo blue](https://www.c2cglobal.com/hubfs/c2c-logo-blue.svg "c2c logo blue")](https://www.c2cglobal.com/) [Data Analytics](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/tag/data-analytics), [BigQuery](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/tag/bigquery), [Session Recording](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/tag/session-recording), [Cloud Operations](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/tag/cloud-operations) # Optimizing BigQuery to Reduce Operational Costs (full video) By [C2C Team](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/author/c2c-team) | May 20, 2021 Led by community member Vishal Gupta ( @VishalG  ) and joined by members of his team, this C2C Talks session covers how they achieved 50% cost reduction and limited the billed bytes per user role for BigQuery analysis. Vishal, a big data engineer and BigQuery developer, shares some specific optimizations in their BigQuery setup, including pre-aggregated tables, auditing queries, table clusters, and user training on these new methods. View the full video below.   **Other BigQuery optimizations from Google Cloud:** - [Clustered tables](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/clustered-tables) - [Restricting number of billed bytes](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/best-practices-costs#limit_query_costs_by_restricting_the_number_of_bytes_billed) - [Pricing tables to optimize cloud storage](https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#price-tables) - [https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/information-schema-jobs#schema](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/information-schema-jobs#schema) **Links shared by Vishal and the community:** - [BigQuery release notes](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/release-notes) - [Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/data-science-on/9781491974551/) - [Enabling Every Decision  to be Data-Driven](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zLwWX3aTw2-8uIJjxKdyU42ASQIx4APKss4-NuEBXzg/edit#slide=id.g7d0f20e893_1_207) - [How Acko Reduced Google BigQuery Cost by 50%](https://www.acko.com/ackology/how-we-reduced-google-bigquery-costs-by-50-percentage/) - [Managing Costs Efficiently With BigQuery](https://tech.just-eat.com/2020/09/25/managing-costs-efficiently-with-bigquery/) --- ## Recent Articles [Data Analytics](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/tag/data-analytics) ## [Generative AI: Are You Behind?!](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/generative-ai-are-you-behind) Review the latest insights from the AI Readiness Report. By Bruno Aziza [Industry Solutions](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/tag/industry-solutions) ## [Make "Gen AI Work": Landscape, SLMs vs. LLMs, Cost & More...](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/make-gen-ai-work-landscape-slms-vs.-llms-cost-more) Discover the 5 metrics you need to know in order to be an exceptional CEO and Operator. By Bruno Aziza [Google Cloud Strategy](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/tag/google-cloud-strategy) ## [AI Cheat Sheet](https://www.c2cglobal.com/articles/ai-cheat-sheet) AI is no more and no less the drive to create robots with human minds so they can do everything we do and more. Use this cheat sheet to help decode the space. By Leah Zitter ## Subscribe to our newsletter Get the latest from C2C, direct to your inbox. [Subscribe](https://share.hsforms.com/1znKGo6ySS9uaRyvLQQzxRw4qbyr) ![c2c-logo-white-tagline](https://www.c2cglobal.com/hubfs/c2c-logo-white-tagline.svg "c2c-logo-white-tagline") C2C is the only peer-to-peer community built to support, connect, and educate Google Cloud customers across regions and industries so they can better harness the power of the cloud—and each other—to solve their biggest challenges and drive innovation. ©2024  C2C Global. All rights reserved. [Privacy Policy](https://www.c2cglobal.com/privacy) 20 N Wacker Drive • Suite 1810 • Chicago, IL • 60606 **Join over 60K members on C2C.** Let's connect! - [mailto:hello@c2cglobal.com](mailto:hello@c2cglobal.com) - - - [![X](https://www.c2cglobal.com/hubfs/twitter-x-icon-white.svg)](https://twitter.com/MeetC2C) ![](https://px.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=2634489&fmt=gif)