Description
Maximize the Value of Every GCP Dollar
The GCP Cost Optimization & Billing Toolkit provides a data-driven approach to understanding and reducing your Google Cloud spending. Leveraging BigQuery billing export analysis, committed use discount planning, and automated rightsizing recommendations, this toolkit gives FinOps teams and cloud engineers the visibility and tools needed to optimize GCP costs without impacting workload performance.
What’s Included
- BigQuery billing export analysis queries for cost breakdown by project, service, SKU, and label
- Committed Use Discount (CUD) calculator with utilization tracking and renewal planning
- Compute Engine rightsizing scripts using Cloud Monitoring metrics and Recommender API
- Idle resource detection for unattached persistent disks, unused static IPs, and idle VMs
- GKE cost optimization guide: cluster autoscaler tuning, node auto-provisioning, and Spot VM node pools
- Cloud Storage lifecycle management policies for nearline, coldline, and archive transitions
- Budget alert configurations with Pub/Sub notification integration for automated responses
- Monthly cost review dashboard template using Looker Studio connected to billing export
Who This Is For
- FinOps practitioners implementing cost governance across GCP projects and folders
- Cloud Engineers responsible for infrastructure cost efficiency
- Finance teams needing granular GCP cost allocation and chargeback reporting
- Technical leads justifying cloud spending to executive leadership
Why Choose Citadel
This toolkit is built on real GCP billing data patterns observed across enterprise deployments. Citadel’s FinOps specialists have optimized GCP environments achieving 20-35% cost reductions, and this toolkit packages those exact methodologies, queries, and automation scripts for your team to replicate those results.
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