FinOps - bobbae/gcp GitHub Wiki

FinOps is shorthand for Cloud Financial Operations or Cloud Financial Management or Cloud Cost Management. It is the practice of bringing financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud , enabling distributed teams to make business trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality.

FinOps is a cultural practice. It’s the way for teams to manage their cloud costs, where everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage supported by a central best-practices group. Cross-functional teams in IT, Finance, Product, etc work together to enable faster product delivery, while at the same time gaining more financial control and predictability.

https://medium.com/@bernadethl/maximize-your-cloud-investment-with-finops-on-google-cloud-1545c98a326a

Understanding and analyzing your Google Cloud costs

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/understanding-and-analyzing-your-google-cloud-costs

FinOps Data

https://data.finops.org/

Cloud Management Platform

The Cloud Management Platform helps the developers and system administrators at digital-native companies improve cloud operations, maintain security, control cost, and ensure governance of its cloud estate. It has five strategic pillars: Analytics, Optimization, Enablement, Productivity, and Governance.

https://github.com/doitintl/cmp-docs

Cloud Governance

Cloud governance is a list of precepts you define and verify that is applied in your cloud environment to achieve several objectives.

GCP FinOps

Google services and GCP

https://medium.com/google-cloud/using-google-services-switch-to-gcp-for-cost-savings-and-better-performance-d9b36aeeaa23

Google Cloud Recommenders

A recommender is a service on Google Cloud that provides usage recommendations for Google Cloud resources. Recommenders are specific to a single Google Cloud product and resource type. A single product can have multiple recommenders, where each provides a different type of recommendation for a different resource.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/how-sky-saved-millions-with-google-cloud

Using BigQuery and Data Studio to visualize Cloud billing

You can get up-to-date Cloud Billing graphs throughout the day, and use labels to slice and dice your Google Cloud bill the way you want by combining Cloud Billing data export to BigQuery functionality with Google Data Studio.

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/visualize-data