Financial Operations (FinOps) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Ongoing Financial Operations (FinOps)—inform, optimize, operate—not a one-time review after the budget breaks.

Visibility

Labels, BigQuery billing export, Kubecost for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Optimization

Rightsizing, Committed Use Discounts (CUD)/Sustained Use Discounts (SUD), Infracost in Continuous Integration (CI), storage tiering.

Governance

Showback/chargeback, owner per cost center, quarterly review.