Your VP Engineering just spun up a new GKE cluster for a pilot project. Three months later, it is still running—16 nodes, 24/7—costing your organization $18,000 a month. Nobody knows whose budget it belongs to. The project was a success technically, but when the CFO asks “how much did it actually cost and who approved it,” the answer is a combination of guesses and discomfort.
This scenario plays out in almost every organization that moves to cloud without cost governance. The cloud gives engineering teams unprecedented autonomy, and that autonomy—without visibility and accountability—produces surprise bills.
15–30% reduction in 4–6 weeks
PT CPI implements FinOps programs on Google Cloud following the FinOps Framework. The first phase is always visibility: billing exports to BigQuery, tagging strategies that map spend to teams and environments, and curated dashboards in Looker or Metabase that answer the questions your finance team needs answered. Not “total spend by service.” “Which team spent what on which environment, and how does it compare to last month’s budget.”
Once the data is clear, PT CPI optimizes: commitment-based discounts (CUD, EDP) that capture the savings your usage profile qualifies for, right-sizing recommendations that eliminate over-provisioned resources, and budget alerts that prevent surprises.
The last layer—and the one that sustains the savings—is governance: recurring cost review cadences, chargeback and showback processes that make engineering teams accountable for their cloud spend, and policies that tie cloud costs to business outcomes.
Cost governance for regulated environments
For FinTech and banking enterprises, cost allocation must respect compliance boundaries. PT CPI designs allocation models that map to environment segregation—production, staging, development, sandbox—and regulatory classifications. Your finance team sees accurate cost-of-compliance per business unit while engineering teams maintain autonomy.
Typical PT CPI FinOps engagements deliver 15–30% reduction in immediate cloud spend through commitment optimization and right-sizing, full cost allocation visibility within 4–6 weeks, and a governance model that prevents cost drift as your GCP footprint grows.
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