Optimization Master List for Cloud Cost Optimization for Google Cloud

General

• FinOps | Getting started with FinOps on Google Cloud (whitepaper) |

• New workload estimations (GCP Console)

• Enterprise Cost Modelling (using contractual pricing

• Maximize business value with cloud FinOps (whitepaper)

• 5 key metrics to measure Cloud FinOps impact in your organization in 2022 and beyond (blog)

Price Optimizations (GCP console)

• Maximize cost efficiency with CUD optimization strategy (for GCE, CloudSQL, VMware Engine, CloudRun, GKE Auto Pilot, Cloud Spanner)

• BigQuery Slot Recommender (GA) 

Usage Optimizations (to reduce waste) (GCP Console) 

• Cloud SQL idle instance recommender (GA)

• Cloud SQL over provisioned instance recommender (GA)

• Idle VM recommender (GA)

• Idle persistent disk recommender (GA)

• Idle IP address recommender (GA)

• Idle custom image recommender (GA)

• Unattended Project Recommender (GA)

• VM Machine type recommender (GA)

• Managed instance group (MIG) machine type recommendation (GA)

• GCE Predictive Autoscaler (GA)

Data 

• Looker cloud cost management work  

• Extract value from your enterprise data warehouse by putting into practice Cost optimization best practices for BigQuery 

Containers 

• Optimize container costs by implementing the 4 low-effort, high-impact ways to cut your GKE costs and your carbon footprint 

• 5 ways to cut costs with containers 

• Best Practices for running optimized Kubernetes applications on GKE

Applications

• Realize CloudROI by leveraging  mfit + Migration Center-  assessment tooling to determine workload's fit for migration and inform the cost and technical blockers to modernization.  Use M2C to transform VM’s to containers saving on VM density with better resource utilization. 

APIs

• 6 ways to optimize your API management costs with Apigee

VMs

• If you have a massive VM estate in the cloud, you would be remiss not to look at 5 best practices for Compute Engine cost optimization 

• Save on your Google Cloud compute, storage, networking, data analytics, and serverless applications, General Cloud Finops pitch

• Active Assist to help automate idle resource management

Operations

• For customers all-in on GCP leverage Cloud Operations suite services like Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Managed Prometheus and Log Analytics to displace costly incumbents