Cloud cost audit
Uncover hidden savings and amplify the value of your Google Cloud investment. Verify your infrastructure's cost-quality balance.
Start savingStop cloud costs draining your budget
Many companies find their Google Cloud expenses higher than expected, often due to misconfiguration and lack of optimization. In fact, IDC estimates that 20-30% of cloud spending is wasted.
If you're facing increasing bills, unclear expenses, or inefficient cloud usage, gaining control of your Google Cloud budget is crucial. This involves collaboration between tech, finance, and business teams, beginning with a clear view of your spending and potential savings.
Achieve tangible savings and clarity in your Google Cloud spending
Understand your cloud spend
Let us provide an in-depth analysis of your spending patterns. By identifying high-cost areas and optimization opportunities, you'll gain comprehensive insight into where your cloud budget is allocated.
Optimize resource usage
Pinpoints inefficiencies and eliminate waste with strategies like the use of discounts, right-sizing, and autoscaling. The optimization process enhances performance, strengthens security, and reduces costs.
Gain control over your budget
Achieve predictability and transparency in your cloud finances. Our recommendations, like implementing cost allocation tags and setting up proactive alerts, empower you to stay on top of costs.
Uncover every opportunity: get familiar with the scope of cost audit
We meticulously examine your Google Cloud environment, focusing on the services that typically represent the highest expenditure to identify optimization opportunities.
In-depth GCP services analysis
Our audit provides a throughout examination of your core Google Cloud services, from compute and storage to databases and networking. We delve into the specifics of your configurations and usage patterns to uncover hidden inefficiencies and potential savings you might be overlooking.
Finding optimization opportunities
Beyond simply identifying waste, our audit pinpoints concrete opportunities to optimize your GCP setup. This includes recommendations for right-sizing of resources, strategic adoption of cost-effective pricing like committed use discounts, and smart implementation of automated scaling. This ensures you're precisely matched to demand, eliminating overspending and maximizing the value you receive.
Verifying scaling potential
During our assessment, we ensure your Google Cloud infrastructure is optimally configured for efficient scaling and future cost management. We meticulously identify dormant and underutilized resources, eliminating unnecessary spending and verifying your setup's readiness for growth.
Individualized recommendations
Our audit provides comprehensive reporting and assists you in establishing robust cost tracking mechanisms, empowering you to understand your budget allocation and make informed decisions for the future. Furthermore, we offer guidance on implementing proactive monitoring alerts, enabling you to stay ahead of your expenditures.
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See how we helped companies get the most out of their cloud investments
Infermedica
An AI-powered health-tech innovator, strategically adopted Google Cloud to build and scale its critical applications. As their usage grew, they partnered with FOTC to optimize their cloud expenditure. By leveraging committed use discounts on their infrastructure, facilitated through their collaboration with FOTC, Infermedica achieved significant reductions in their GCP costs.
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Sessions
A global SaaS product, benefited from FOTC's cost control measures, easy payment options, and special discounts on their Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. Their decision to partner with FOTC was driven by the need for better alignment in working hours and reliable support, highlighting the value of a partner in optimizing both operational efficiency and cloud expenditure.
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Surfer
A global analytical platform on GCP, leveraged preemptible VM instances to optimize compute costs while ensuring scalability. Their partnership with a local Google Cloud Partner further contributed to lower infrastructure expenses, demonstrating the power of strategic GCP service selection and partner collaboration in achieving cost-efficiency.
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Merixstudio
A software development company, utilizes Google Cloud tools to build tailored solutions for clients. They also implemented Google Cloud internally with the help of FOTC, who assisted with account migration and provided support. They leverage GCP's budgeting and cost control tools, including alerts and cost prediction, to effectively manage their cloud expenses.
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Break down silos with FinOps
A cost audit facilitates the broader practice of achieving holistic cloud cost efficiency through team alignment.
IT
Gain visibility into resource use and optimization opportunities. Deliver performance at optimal cost with actionable insights on right-sizing and efficient GCP services.
Executives
Understand cloud spend’s impact on business goals. Drive cost accountability and make informed strategic decisions for maximum cloud value.
Finance
Establish predictable budgets and accurate forecasting with detailed cost data and tagging. Improve financial reporting and gain control over cloud spending.
Procurement
Optimize vendor management and cloud acquisition with data-driven insights. Secure the best value through informed purchasing and discount strategies.
Our streamlined process to unlock your cloud savings
Kick off meeting
We start by understanding your needs, GCP setup, and required access. We'll introduce our team and define project goals.
Comprehensive review
We analyze your billing and resource use, identify usage patterns and flag potential cost-saving opportunities.
Cost audit report
You receive a clear report detailing optimization findings and proposed changes with saving opportunities.
Recommendations
We'll present clear, actionable steps in our follow-up, informing you on available support for implementing savings.
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Cloud engineering as a service
Leverage certified Google Cloud architects and DevOps engineers to implement the recommendations from your cost audit, all without the overhead of full-time hires.
Google Cloud security audit
Evaluate your GCP environment against best practices, identifying potential risks across key areas. Get a clear report with recommendations to enhance your security.
Support & Managed services
Our support services offer the expertise you require. Focus on your core business while we ensure your cloud environment is secure, optimized, and running smoothly.
Your questions,
answered.
We can usually complete the audit within seven business days from the project's start and access granting. We'll give you a clearer timeline once we discuss your specific setup.
Savings can range from moderate if your cloud is already well-optimized, to significant if there are untapped opportunities for improvement. We'll help you identify exactly where you can save the most.
We'll need organization-level access to your projects and resources, and your relevant Google Cloud billing account connected to our system. This allows us to analyze your spending and find ways to save you money. We'll discuss the specifics during our initial meeting; most probably it’d be:
- roles/billing.viewer
- roles/browser
- roles/monitoring.viewer
- roles/cloudasset.viewer
We'll present our findings and recommendations in a follow-up meeting. You can then implement these changes yourself, or we can provide optional support to help you put them into action.
FinOps, or Financial Operations, is the practice of managing your cloud costs effectively using data and teamwork. Our Cost Audit gives you the data and insights you need to start obtaining financial efficiency by understanding your spending and finding ways to optimize it.
The pricing depends on the volume of your resources and your organization size. We’ll provide an exact cost quote after understanding the scope of your cloud cost audit.