Cloud FinOps audit: explain spending before acting

The bill is growing, but some costs cannot be tied to an owner or an identifiable workload.

Connect cost exports and usage for an agreed scope, then prioritize decisions with their risks and owners.

Services

Problems addressed

A bill item has no owner

For selected Azure subscriptions or GCP projects, distinguish allocated resources, shared costs and unexplained amounts before recommending action.

Test VMs appear idle

Check ownership, metrics, deferred jobs and restart conditions before proposing a shutdown or automation.

BigQuery jobs weigh on the Data budget

Compare costs, bytes scanned and business value on the selected jobs; detailed SQL rewriting belongs to the dedicated BigQuery service.

What you receive

  • Cost breakdown for the selected scopeAllocated, shared and unexplained items, with the period and sources behind the amounts observed.
  • Ranked opportunitiesProposed action, savings hypothesis, effort, service risk and decision owner for each priority item.
  • Measurement planComparable periods and indicators to verify the actual effect if an opportunity is later implemented.

Scope and prerequisites

Scope and prerequisites. Selected accounts or projects, billing period and workloads, billing exports, relevant metrics and authorized contacts. Credits and shared costs remain visible.

Outside the audit. No automatic shutdown, resource deletion, SQL modification or pricing commitment without separate approval and testing.

A question about your environment? Tell me about it: I'll define a useful scope with you before starting.

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