What is “GCP Cost Optimization”?
GCP is trusted by organizations worldwide for its innovative tools, robust infrastructure, and commitment to sustainability, leveraging Google's expertise in AI and data to empower businesses in their digital transformation journey.
Key Features and advantages of GCP
- Scalability and reliability: GCP is designed to scale seamlessly to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes. It is also highly reliable, with a 99.999% uptime SLA for most services.
- Open source friendly: GCP supports a wide range of open source technologies, making it easy to integrate with your existing infrastructure.
- Strong security: GCP has a strong security track record and offers a variety of security features to help you protect your data.
- Data and Analytics Leadership: Industry-leading tools like BigQuery for real-time data analysis and integration with data pipelines.
- AI and Machine Learning: Advanced tools for AI/ML development and deployment.
- Developer-Friendly: Comprehensive APIs and integrations with Google services like Workspace, Android, and Chrome.
Common Overbilling and
Cost complaints
- Persistent Disk Charges: Unused storage volumes often remain active.
- BigQuery Costs: Query-based pricing can be unpredictable if queries are not optimized.
- Default Quotas and Free Tier Limits: Free tier limits sometimes expire without clear alerts.
- Complex Pricing: Hard to decipher pricing tiers.
- Idle Resources: VMs and persistent disks not shut down.
- Data Transfer Costs: High charges for inter-region transfer.
- Service Dependencies: Service interconnect charges.
- Misconfigured Services: Incorrect VM sizes, misused BigQuery.
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Why These Complaints Persist :
Service Complexity
Cloud providers frequently update services, making pricing difficult to track.
Lack of Cost Visibility
Without robust cost management tools, businesses struggle to monitor expenses.
Pay-as-You-Go Models
While flexible, these models can generate unexpected bills due to usage spikes.
How We Assist You :
See the Bigger Picture
We start with a holistic cloud cost analysis, uncovering hidden expenses and areas of inefficiency across your cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
Strategize Smarter
With insights in hand, we design a tailored roadmap to maximize savings through :
◦ Right-Sizing Resources : Eliminate waste by aligning resources to actual demand.
◦ Smart Commitments : Leverage Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, or hybrid benefits to lock in long-term savings.
Automate for Excellence
Reclaim time and resources with intelligent automation tools that handle repetitive cost-management tasks and ensure ongoing optimization.
Real-Time Transparency
Empower your team with dashboards that reveal spending trends, highlight spikes, and offer actionable recommendations—all in real-time.
Optimize Continuously
Cloud cost management isn’t a one-time job. We work with you to implement a culture of continuous optimization, ensuring your cloud environment scales efficiently over time.
Our Cloud cost optimization framework
Cloud FinOps practices need to be implemented by every organization either small or big that utilizes AWS
At Nafkha Consulting, we don’t just optimize your cloud costs; we transform them into a competitive advantage.
Plan
Identify areas for optimization and devise roadmap to achieve efficiencies
• Understand customer financial requirements
• Collect billing, utilization and other documentation
• Identify areas of focus for optimization roadmap
• Finalize roles and responsibilities along with key timelines
Design
Create implementation plan; policies and relevant metrics to monitor cloud usage
• Create tagging schema and implementation plan
• Define usage metrics and alerting mechanism
•Create initial governance policies
• Identify areas for automation and scripting
Discover
Model correct cloud usage based on utilization and consumption patterns
• Collect utilization data to understand usage behavior
• Identify idle resources and waste for deletion
• Identify rightsizing of architecture based on priority
• Identify other consumption trends
Craft
Develop and implement recommendations to reduce cloud spend
• Create optimization roadmap and recs
• Integrate recs with change management policies
•Enact recommendation and track implementation
• Update budget projection and investigate purchase tactic
Stabilize
Continuously monitor cloud spend and maintain the savings realized
• Maintain realized saving
• Utilize potential discounts
• Budget consumption trends and RI management
• Continuous monitoring and usage tracking
• Tagging structure and reporting updates
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What Sets Us Apart?
Cloud FinOps isn’t just about cutting costs—it’s about creating a system that balances agility, scalability, and financial efficiency. Nafkha Consulting brings to bear deep sector and tech experience underpinned by a business-led approach to ensure that the financial management of your cloud ecosystem is viewed holistically—not just through an IT lens.
We work with you to develop a flexible approach to cloud FinOps that fits to address your organization’s current and future challenges and ensures that your cloud spend directly supports your goals without compromise.
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Our Optimization Framework
Results That Matter
With our Cloud FinOps Framework you can gain the ability to more effectively identify, govern, and optimize your cloud spend. The benefits of our Cloud FinOps Framework start almost immediately, and they are impactful and long term. Our services help you :
- Drive cost ownership across business units and improve resource traceability across a multi-cloud environment.
- Gain transparency into spend through cost allocation at resource level, ML-driven predictions for forecasted spend across CSPs.
- Align FinOps maturity journey with business strategy and goals.
- Identify areas where organization can improve cloud efficiency, reduce costs, and better leverage benefits of cloud computing.
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Why work with us
Nafkha Consulting brings unmatched resources and reputation to cloud transformation services. Are you ready to optimize your cloud spend and gain greater ROI from your cloud investments?