Detect suspicious cloud behavior before spotting the cost
Cloud cost anomalies can be the first signal of a security incident. FOTC’s Cloud Anomaly Detector continuously monitors Google Cloud billing behavior, detects unusual spending, and directs critical events to the people who can react before the problem escalates.
Google Cloud environments
real operational incidents
customers
monitoring
CloudOps
Receiving a bill is a bad time to discover anomalies
Without behavioral monitoring, an API key leak remains invisible until someone opens the billing dashboard or, worse, receives an invoice for cloud costs. A Google alert regarding suspected abuse is sent only to the environment owner. Once an incident is detected, the damage can already be significant. Our Cloud Anomaly Detector closes this gap: alerts are sent simultaneously to you and to the FOTC team, allowing you to detect threats early on and respond calmly.
A weekend without monitoring –
peace that turns into a fire
A weekend with FOTC anomaly detection –
rapid response, no major consequences
Cost is a security signal –
it doesn't spike without a reason
Unexpected spending growth in Google Cloud is rarely just a billing issue. Very often, it is an operational symptom of unauthorized activity, credential leakage, or a misconfiguration that needs to be addressed before costs compound.
Common causes indicated by the cost signal
- Leaked or stolen API key
- Compromised service or user account
- Crypto mining or abusive workloads
- Uncontrolled test workloads
- Misconfiguration or automation error
- Unexpected scaling or deployment error
Unusual cloud cost behavior
- Sudden hourly spikes
- Daily increases multiple times above the average
- Sustained growth
- Unusual patterns at the service level
- Projected budget overruns
This is the layer FOTC monitors so that a cost surge becomes an immediate signal to react, not a surprise on your invoice.
An alert is just the beginning. Behavioral observation allows you to see the change.
Native Google Cloud alerts are an important element of cloud governance, but an alert alone doesn't stop an incident. It lacks behavioral context, severity classification, and a defined operational path from notification to response.
Useful, but still just a notification.
- Reacts only to static thresholds
- Messages can be overlooked
- Accountability is unclear
- No context of the account or service
- No escalation path
- No operational actions
A clear path from unusual spending to action.
- Behavioral detection against baseline
- Severity classification (Critical/Warning + “confirmed as planned” status)
- Customer and billing account mapping
- Service-level cost context
- The event is logged in the CRM and assigned to the account manager
- Critical event escalation
- Expert analysis and response support
See how the
Cloud Anomaly Detector works
One continuous task loop that turns billing behavior signals into a response with an assigned owner, escalation, and (if needed) expert support.
Monitor changes in the product dashboard
This is your near real-time command center. Real threats are visually separated from expected activity, enabling operators to act on signal, not noise.
Dashboard available in Polish and English; designed for the customer portal.
See live demoRead the story of a customer who significantly reduced losses after a key leak thanks to the FOTC Cloud Anomaly Detector
One of our customers had a billing account with a stable, low daily cost. An unauthorized event raised spending hundreds of times above the norm. By using the Cloud Anomaly Detector, it was caught in the first cycle, classified as critical, and rightly maintained as critical when the unusual level persisted.
One leaked key can turn a quiet weekend into a massive cloud bill.
Not every anomaly is an attack
In the second case, a customer's daily cost increased ~7.6× above the norm. Our Cloud Anomaly Detector identified this, generated an alert, created a CRM task, and assigned an account owner, who confirmed it was planned work. The value of detection also lies in quickly distinguishing expected from malicious activity.
Limit the harmful impact on your business and margin
Implementing anomaly detection translates into business outcomes that affect not only IT but also security and finance areas.
The cost of three days without monitoring (reported incident)
The time it took for the automated system to take over a dozen or so projects (28 keys, 9 service accounts)
An increase in the daily cost exposed by the detector at our client's site
The time when the CRITICAL ticket was sent to the team—before the client started their day
Connect SecOps, FinOps, and CloudOps
Security
Treat unexpected spending as a possible threat signal and act before it becomes an incident report.
- • Early detection of threat signals
- • Investigation of keys, accounts, and permissions
- • Strengthening escalation and on-call response procedures
Cloud Operations
Get clarity on which service changed, where, and who is responsible for it – without manual dashboard reviews.
- • Rapid identification of unusual services
- • Linking events with the right owner
- • Shorter investigation time
Finance
Make cloud costs predictable and protect budgets and margins from unexpected expenses.
- • Improved cost predictability
- • Early detection of unusual spending
- • Budget and margin safeguarding
Leadership
Gain visibility, define accountability, and limit operational and financial risk.
- • Clear visibility across the estate
- • Defined accountability and ownership
- • Lower operational and financial risk
Discover the scope of service
As part of our cost anomaly detection service, we monitor and classify incidents and escalate them to the appropriate person—we do not directly interfere with your environment. You manage the dashboard yourself: you can view your billing, set rules, and configure email and SMS alerts.
Cloud Anomaly Detector
Get continuous detection and escalation.
- ✓ Customer dashboard—your billing information in our detector
- ✓ Email and SMS alerts
- ✓ Product updates
- ✓ Incident analysis
- ✓ Cost anomaly monitoring
- ✓ Custom rule configuration
- ✓ Monitoring by FOTC
- ✓ Escalation and support
Cloud Care
Do you want us to take action, not just notify you?
- ✓ we rotate keys
- ✓ we lock compromised service accounts
- ✓ we stop abuse
Test your operational readiness. At 03:00 AM, would your organization know?
Answer honestly. If any answer is unclear, your current alerting process may not be sufficient.
Multiple answers indicate gaps. The current alerting process may not suffice — a cloud cost & security review will close the gaps.
PRIORITY ACTIONS
Schedule a cloud cost & security review
A cloud incident should not be detected only when costs are settled. Talk to our Google Cloud expert. We will review your alerts, permissions, and escalation process and show how anomaly monitoring will strengthen your environment.