Ewiser – the moment cloud cost management became a strategic system.
Learn how we helped Ewiser transform Google Cloud cost management into a strategic FinOps system that increased visibility and delivered over $50,000 in annual savings.
Key Achievements
Full
visibility into the entire Google Cloud cost structure.
Structured
and systemized cloud cost management.
Predictable
costs enabled by budgets and cost alerts.
ABOUT THE COOPERATION
As Ewiser’s platform grew, its Google Cloud environment expanded alongside the business – more customers, more data, and more workloads naturally led to higher cloud costs.
From an operational perspective, everything worked as expected – the platform remained stable, performance stayed high, and teams continuously delivered new features. The challenge was not technical, but strategic: costs were growing faster than the ability to fully control and manage them.
Ewiser needed to move from basic monitoring to real, in-depth architectural visibility and conscious cloud cost management.
CONTEXT
Growing cloud costs and the need for strategic cost management
Ewiser is an AI-powered platform that supports businesses in demand forecasting and operational decision-making. As the number of customers and data volumes increased, the Google Cloud environment scaled dynamically, leading to rising infrastructure costs. The organization needed greater cost transparency and a structured approach to managing cloud spending in order to scale the environment in a controlled and sustainable way.
SOLUTION
Implementation of a FinOps-driven approach to cloud cost management
A comprehensive Google Cloud cost optimization audit was conducted, focusing on resource utilization analysis, environment configuration reviews, and the pinpointing of cost inefficiencies. Based on these insights, a series of targeted optimization actions were implemented across the infrastructure. This included right-sizing underutilized Compute Engine instances, eliminating idle resources, and optimizing Cloud Monitoring to prevent unnecessary data ingestion costs. Additionally, a custom Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) strategy was designed to secure long-term architectural savings. These initiatives successfully transitioned the infrastructure into a structured, FinOps-based cost management model, ensuring that future scaling remains both profitable and transparent.
RESULTS
Full cost visibility and over $50,000 in annual savings
The implemented actions significantly improved cost transparency and introduced a highly structured approach to cost management across the entire Google Cloud environment. Through these optimization efforts, Ewiser gained full visibility into its cloud spending alongside the operational capability to detect budget anomalies at an early stage. This established a resilient architectural foundation for the continuous, sustainable scaling of the platform. Most notably, the optimization initiative delivered over $50,000 in annual savings, achieving major financial efficiency without impacting system performance, stability, or service availability.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Cloud cost optimization and transition to a FinOps model
The implementation of FinOps practices established full cost transparency across the entire Google Cloud environment and introduced a highly structured framework for expense management. This approach enabled the elimination of idle and redundant resources, ensuring the infrastructure is precisely tailored to actual workloads.
The optimization initiative delivered over $50,000 in annual savings without impacting platform performance. Simultaneously, the deployment of a Committed Use Discounts strategy, alongside budgets and cost alerts, secured long-term predictability of spending and established a resilient foundation for the continuous, controlled growth of the cloud environment.
SERVICES DELIVERED
GOOGLE CLOUD COST AUDIT
FINOPS STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION
About Ewiser
Industry: Technology/AI
Headquarters: Budapest
Ewiser is an AI-powered platform that supports businesses in forecasting, demand planning, and operational decision-making. By leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics, it processes large volumes of data to deliver fast, actionable business insights.
From the very beginning, the platform was built as a cloud-native product. As the customer base expanded and computational complexity grew, Google Cloud became not only the technological foundation but also a strategic cost area requiring a mature management approach.
“Since FOTC conducted the FinOps audit, we have gained full visibility into our Google Cloud spending and know exactly where to optimize costs. They didn’t just stop at recommendations—they delivered a concrete, actionable roadmap. On top of that, they detected hidden anomalies that we likely wouldn’t have noticed on our own.”
Áron Szentpéteri, Cloud Architect, Ewiser ITS Kft."Find out how to structure your cloud costs and implement FinOps practices that give you full control over your Google Cloud spending."
At FOTC, we will help you analyze your Google Cloud environment costs, implement FinOps practices, and structure your expense management so that your cloud can grow together with your business
