Problem
Our platform processes over 227 TB of data per day, and GCP spend grew with it. No group owned cloud cost as an ongoing practice. [TBD: confirm framing; what prompted the working group.]
Approach
- Created a FinOps working group to own cloud cost. [TBD: who was in it (teams or roles) and how often we met.]
- [TBD: the levers that produced the savings, for example rightsizing, committed use discounts, storage tiering, or pipeline changes.]
- [TBD: how we tracked and reported spend, for example billing exports or Looker dashboards.]
Outcome
- Saved over $30k per month in GCP costs.
- [TBD: anything that made the savings stick, such as budgets, alerts, or review cadence.]