#448 Issue
April 28, 2025
Tag: FinOps
BigQuery Cloud Composer FinOps April 28, 2025Unlocking Savings: A look at Google’s new BigQuery & Composer CUDs - CUDs for BigQuery and Composer finally arrived — Am I going to save money?
FinOps Official Blog April 21, 2025Spring cleaning with FinOps Hub 2.0 - Google Cloud's FinOps Hub 2.0 helps customers optimize their cloud infrastructure by identifying and eliminating wasted resources. It provides utilization insights, cost optimizations, and integration with Gemini Cloud Assist for personalized cost reports and automated workflows. The new IAM role permission allows tech solution owners to access FinOps insights and Gemini Cloud Assist insights across all their projects in a single view.
BigQuery Billing FinOps March 31, 2025How we saved $3.5M in BigQuery costs on deleting inactive user data - 5 key BigQuery optimisations for reducing the costs associated with deleting the data of 150,000 inactive customers.
FinOps Migration March 31, 2025Sequencing Cloud Migration to Reduce Cost: What to Migrate and When - Is your cloud migration costing more than you expected? Is your TCO not coming down? If so, this guide will give the secret sauce!
Compute Engine DevOps FinOps Workflows March 24, 2025FinOps in Action: Slash Google Cloud Costs After Lift & Shift with Automated VM Scheduling - Use Cloud Workflows and Cloud Build to remove Idle VM Costs on Google Cloud.
AI FinOps Official Blog March 10, 2025How to calculate your AI costs on Google Cloud - Google Cloud offers a comprehensive approach to understanding and managing AI costs, ensuring organizations capture maximum value from their AI investments.
FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes March 3, 2025GKE Cost Cutting — Three Key Lookout Points to view your Potential Savings - This article highlights three key lookout points to view potential savings for GKE: cluster cost optimization, workloads at risk, and workloads rightsizing.
Cloud Run FinOps Feb. 10, 2025Optimising the Cost of our Video Intelligence Service on Google Cloud Run, Aided with Billing Reporting - Using the Google Cloud Billing Dashboard to see where our spend is going, and then taking steps to eliminate that cost.
Application Integration FinOps Jan. 27, 2025Adding self-service capabilities to your Landing Zone - How can you grow your Google Cloud Landing Zone with data while increasing efficiency through self-service?
Billing FinOps Security Jan. 27, 2025Avoiding Cloud Bill Disaster Lessons from a Google Cloud API Key Breached - A Google Cloud user's bill skyrocketed to $450,000 due to a compromised API key, highlighting the importance of securing API keys and adopting robust cloud security practices.
FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Dec. 30, 2024‘Hardware Refresh’ on Google Cloud - When performance and/or cost matter.
FinOps GCP Experience Official Blog Dec. 16, 2024To avoid “bill shocks,” Palo Alto Networks deploys custom AI-powered cost anomaly detection - Palo Alto Networks deployed a custom AI-powered cost anomaly detection solution on Google Cloud to proactively manage cloud costs and avoid unexpected expenses. The solution leverages BigQuery ML, Looker, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Run functions to detect anomalies, notify stakeholders, and facilitate root-cause analysis.
BigQuery Billing FinOps Paywall Dec. 16, 202410 Optimisation Tips to Reduce Your Mighty BigQuery Cost - 10 ways to reduce your eye watering BigQuery bills.
FinOps Dec. 9, 2024A phased approach supporting FinOps adoption - An easy-to-use approach to facilitate creating and following up your FinOps strategy and action plan.
Billing FinOps Dec. 2, 2024A Simple Guide to Google Cloud Committed Use Discounts - Learn how to leverage CUDs for maximum savings on your compute engine.
Airflow BigQuery Billing dbt FinOps Nov. 25, 2024Monitoring BigQuery Costs at Plum: A Detailed Breakdown - The article explores monitoring and managing BigQuery costs by analyzing metadata from tools like dbt, Apache Airflow, Looker, and user-generated queries.
FinOps Terraform Nov. 18, 2024Witch Quotas on GCP to Prevent Unexpected Billing Surprises - How Terraforming Quota Management Can Prevent Unexpected Cloud Expenditure.
Billing FinOps Nov. 11, 2024My FinOps Collection - A collection of articles about FinOps.
BigQuery Billing FinOps Nov. 4, 2024How we save tens of thousands of dollars on BigQuery - By implementing targeted optimizations, Capchase reduced their BigQuery costs by up to 54%, saving tens of thousands of dollars each month. Strategies included understanding their bill, optimizing third-party tool usage, clustering and partitioning tables, building tables incrementally, querying smaller tables, removing zombie analytics, only querying what is needed, defining data freshness, and using BigQuery quotas.
FinOps Kubernetes Oct. 28, 2024How to use GKE's new Custom Compute Classes - GKE's new Custom Compute Classes (CCC) offer increased availability and cost savings by providing fallback compute priorities and active migration of workloads to preferential node shapes. CCC maximizes obtainability and reliability, ensuring successful autoscaling and control over resource allocation.
FinOps Oct. 28, 2024Improve budget relevance by expanding cost visibility dashboards - You can avoid surprises on your cloud bill by creating budgets, but how do you make sure they remain relevant and appropriate?
Billing DevOps FinOps SRE Oct. 21, 2024How We Reduced Costs on GCP by Optimizing a Single SKU: Network Inter Zone Data Transfer Out - Significantly reduced GCP costs by optimizing a single SKU: Network Inter Zone Data Transfer Out. By analyzing data transfer patterns, consolidating workloads, and leveraging zonal resources, a 45% reduction was achieved in inter-zone data transfer, resulting in monthly savings of approximately 20% for the GCP bill.
BigQuery FinOps Oct. 21, 2024Demystifying BigQuery reservations — part 2 - This blog post discusses how unexpected on-demand usage can occur in a capacity-based BigQuery organization, it explores the challenges and provides best practices, including separating compute and storage projects, and monitoring roles with the bigquery.jobs.create permission, and avoiding unexpected locations.
FinOps Official Blog Oct. 14, 2024Gain control of your Google Cloud costs: Introducing the Cost Attribution Solution - The Google Cloud Cost Attribution Solution helps organizations manage and understand their cloud costs by providing tools and best practices to improve cost metadata and labeling governance processes. It enables granular cost breakdowns, data-driven decisions, and customizable reporting through the strategic application of labels to Google Cloud resources.
FinOps Official Blog Oct. 14, 2024Reduce unexpected costs with the new AI-powered Cost Anomaly Detection - Google Cloud introduces Cost Anomaly Detection, an AI-powered tool that helps businesses identify and control unexpected cost spikes in their cloud spending. It continuously monitors cloud projects and detects anomalies in real or near-real time, providing detailed root-cause analysis and customizable alerts. Cost Anomaly Detection requires no setup, is available at no cost, and integrates with existing cost management tools like Budgets.
FinOps Sept. 23, 2024Optimizing Cloud Costs on Google Cloud: A Practical Guide to the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification - Learn How to Save Money and Gain Insights with FOCUS on Google Cloud.
FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Sept. 23, 2024Google Kubernetes Engine Cost Optimization Best Practices - In order to optimize costs for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), there are couple of approaches as best practices.
Billing FinOps Gemini Vertex AI Vertex AI Agent Builder Sept. 2, 2024Decoding the Price Tag: Estimating Google Gemini AI Costs - Navigate the complexities of Google Gemini AI pricing and make informed decisions for your business.
Billing FinOps July 29, 2024Cloud Cost Cutting Myths Busted: How We Unlocked Huge Savings With Minimal Effort on GCP - By focusing on simple, high-impact actions such as eliminating unnecessary logs, optimizing cloud storage, migrating legacy data, right-sizing Cloud Run resources, and resizing Compute Engine instances, the team at Adauris made over $30,000 in annual savings.
FinOps Official Blog June 24, 2024Leveling up FinOps: 5 cost management innovations from FinOps X 2024 - Google Cloud is introducing several FinOps enhancements to improve cost management. These include making open cloud billing data a reality, enabling users to speak in the language of business, expanding the definition of cost to include carbon, modeling what an efficient cloud looks like in near real-time, and sending actionable alerts instead of noise.
Billing Compute Engine FinOps Official Blog June 17, 2024Five more ways to save on Compute Engine costs - Google Cloud offers various ways to optimize Compute Engine spending. You can save costs by letting go of external IPs, automating machine on and off cycles, considering Spot VMs, comparing regions for the best deals, and introducing automated time limits for VMs. These strategies can help you manage your cloud spending effectively and make the most of your cloud investment.
Compute Engine FinOps Official Blog June 3, 2024Five ways to save on Compute Engine costs - Compute Engine offers various ways to reduce costs, including optimizing infrastructure and taking advantage of discounts. The first step is to inspect your current spending structure using the Google Cloud console's billing panel to identify unnecessary resources. Automated recommendations from Recommendation Hub can suggest actions like changing machine types or scaling down machines. Reviewing disk types and optimizing disk utilization can also lead to significant savings. Additionally, committing to using Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) can provide substantial discounts for long-term virtual machine usage.
FinOps GCP Experience Official Blog June 3, 2024Cloud FinOps and GKE: How Generali optimized spend with Google Cloud Consulting - Generali Switzerland engaged Google Cloud Consulting to optimize its GKE clusters and workloads, resulting in annual savings of over €260,000, a 41% reduction in GKE spend. The optimization focused on four key areas: workload rightsizing, demand-based autoscaling, bin packing, and discount coverage. Generali achieved significant savings by rightsizing requests, fixing autoscaling issues, migrating to cost-optimized machines, and maximizing discount coverage.
Billing FinOps Official Blog May 20, 2024Elevate your FinOps strategy: Optimize with FinOps hub, now GA - FinOps hub enables you to supercharge your FinOps practices and optimize costs with intelligent insights and actionable recommendations. Rightsize resources, reduce waste, and rate optimization with committed use discounts (CUDs), so you can invest those savings directly into innovation. FinOps hub is now generally available.
FinOps May 6, 2024Deep dive into Google Cloud Compute Engine commitments - This blog post discusses how to combine Flex and Resouce-based commitments.
FinOps Official Blog April 15, 2024Cloud FinOps news from Next ‘24
Cloud Logging FinOps Monitoring April 1, 2024Design your Landing Zone — Design Considerations Part 3 — Monitoring, Logging, Billing and Labelling (Google Cloud Adoption Series) - Landing Zone Design Considerations: Monitoring, Logging, Billing, Labelling.
FinOps March 25, 2024Enter the FinOps Universe: The Team-Up of Finance and Cloud Tech - Some thoughts on how to organize FinOps for your organization.
Active Assist Data Studio FinOps Official Blog Terraform March 25, 2024Unlock cloud savings with new Looker Studio Dashboard and Terraform scripts - An OSS Recommendations Dashboard to view cost savings recommendations for optimizing Google Cloud resources.
BigQuery Billing FinOps Official Blog March 25, 2024BigQuery customers save up to 54% in TCO compared to alternative cloud data platforms - A report from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group.
BigQuery FinOps March 11, 2024Tips and tricks to control and reduce your BigQuery bill - 7 tips to reduce BigQuery billing.
FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes March 4, 2024Scaling GKE Standard Clusters to Zero - Scaling the size of the GKE cluster to zero nodes in various ways.
FinOps Official Blog Feb. 11, 2024Five key things to consider when building a cloud FinOps team - This blog post delves into five key factors to consider when building a successful cloud FinOps team.
FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Feb. 5, 2024Facts you should know about GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) - you may save $$$ in your bill and avoid painful fixes!!
Compute Engine FinOps Infrastructure Jan. 29, 2024How to reduce your Google Cloud Compute Engine Bill by 50% with Committed Use Discounts — Part 2 - This article explains how to size, purchase, and analyze the effectiveness of Committed Use Discounts.
Billing FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Official Blog Jan. 22, 2024Introducing granular cost insights for GKE, using Cloud Monitoring and Billing data in BigQuery - With Cloud Monitoring metrics in BigQuery (now in Preview), you can combine billing data with resource utilization metrics, empowering you to perform detailed analyses in BigQuery.
BigQuery FinOps Official Blog Jan. 22, 2024Standardize your cloud billing data with the new FOCUS BigQuery view - a new BigQuery view that leverages the recent FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) (in a preview) to help simplify cloud cost management across clouds.
Billing DevOps FinOps Google Kubernetes Engine Kubernetes Jan. 22, 2024Optimizing Your Google Kubernetes Engine Costs — Part 2: The Bin Packing Problem - This article explores the bin packing problem in Kubernetes with special reference to GKE.
Billing FinOps Infrastructure Jan. 15, 2024How to reduce your Google Cloud Compute Engine Bill by 50% with Committed Use Discounts — Part 1 - Only about 20% of the Google Cloud users I speak with have a Committed Use Discount Strategy.
Billing FinOps Networking Official Blog Jan. 15, 2024Cloud switching just got easier: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud - Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google Cloud.
BigQuery Billing FinOps Jan. 15, 2024Ultimate Guide to Saving Time and Money with BigQuery - Whether you’re a seasoned data professional or just beginning to explore the capabilities of BigQuery, this guide is crafted to provide you with practical, actionable insights to enhance your experience and efficiency.
FinOps Official Blog Dec. 18, 2023FinOps Sketchnotes 2 - Meet the FinOps team
FinOps Official Blog Dec. 18, 2023Finops Sketchnote 3 - Cost and value optimization on Google Cloud
FinOps Dec. 11, 20234 dimensions for driving FinOps adoption - A simple approach consisting of 4 dimensions to help structure and drive Cloud FinOps adoption.
FinOps Terraform Nov. 20, 2023FinOps Cost Management using Terraform Cloud Run Tasks - Learn how to manage Google Cloud costs using a Terraform Cloud Custom Run Task to dynamically control infrastructure as code deployments.
Billing FinOps Official Blog Nov. 20, 2023Demystifying Cloud Pricing - Shedding some light on the cloud pricing models that apply to all major cloud service providers (CSPs), not just Google Cloud, and how you can use these insights to understand more about how you’re using your cloud platform.
FinOps Official Blog Nov. 20, 2023FinOps Sketchnotes: Introducing Cloud FinOps - Over the next several months, we’ll be featuring Sketch Notes like the one above designed to demystify Cloud FinOps and Google Cloud Platform services.
BigQuery Billing FinOps GCP Experience Oct. 9, 2023How to reduce your BigQuery costs? - 4 practical examples within the Modern Data Network from BlaBlaCar, Nickel, Toucan Toco and Libeo.
FinOps Official Blog Oct. 2, 2023Five quick ways to optimize your cloud spend with Google Cloud FinOps - A quick look at a few essential cloud cost optimization methods that you can easily implement using Google Cloud, along with many other FinOps strategies.
Billing FinOps Sept. 25, 2023GCP Billing & Cost Management - A summary of GCP billing & cost management, related tools and some strategies.
FinOps Sept. 18, 2023FinOps: A Google Cloud 2023 Perspective - An introduction to the GCP FinOps framework.
Billing FinOps Infrastructure Sept. 18, 2023Optimizing Costs of Google Kubernetes Engine - How we decreased 75% of our production GKE cluster costs.
BigQuery FinOps Sept. 18, 2023Controlling our Data Platform Costs at BlaBlaCar - Tips and Feedback from Blablacar’s journey towards cutting costs in the data platform.
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