Optimize your costs and accelerate your cloud transformation with FinOps for Google Cloud. This allows you to exploit the full potential of Google Cloud without breaking your budget. But what is FinOps actually about?
FinOps (Financial Operations) is an innovative approach that brings finance, technology and business together to optimize costs in the cloud while maximizing business value. With FinOps for Google Cloud, you gain control over your cloud spend while accelerating your digital transformation.
Since 2008, we are Google Cloud Premier Partner and support our customers in optimizing their Google Cloud infrastructure. Costs play an important aspect in this process. With our experience and our successfully proven Google Cloud FinOps Checkup, we support you in successfully introducing and establishing FinOps in your company. Our service consists of five modules:
The following use cases from our customers clearly show that a FinOps checkup with PCG and the introduction of FinOps in the company offers many advantages.
At an industrial company with >5 years of cloud usage, hundreds of unnecessary snapshots and dozens of unused hard disks were found using scripts. As a result, savings of >4,000 EUR/month were achieved (~50,000 EUR p.a.).
At a digital service provider with >5 years of cloud usage, discount programs were not optimally interlinked with usage in product development. Annual savings potential of approx. 80,000 EUR p.a.
Internal customers were provided with more resources than required in the medium-sized group. One third of the savings potential of EUR 8,000/month could be realized in the short term (~EUR 25,000 p.a.).
When companies migrate to the cloud, the first step is usually to set up virtual machines (VMs) to run workloads on the selected cloud platform. And the key to optimizing compute costs is to evaluate the price/performance ratio.
You have the freedom to choose which type of physical CPU runs your cloud workload. Making this decision can have a measurable impact on performance and cost. By selecting a CPU with a lower price/performance ratio, you can realize immediate cost efficiencies.
For example, C3D VMs powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC™ processors deliver up to 45% better performance and improved performance consistency over previous N2D VMs, with up to 360 vCPUs and 2.8 TB of memory per VM.
In addition, running your workload on a more powerful CPU can reduce runtime and therefore save on ongoing computing costs. When evaluating VM types, it is important to ensure that the underlying CPU matches your workload requirements.
We can help you find a flexible solution with a comprehensive feature set that balances customization, performance and total cost of ownership (TCO).
By switching from N2D to C3D, general VM customers can save an average of 26% on their VM operating costs (across five typical workload benchmarks), reducing their overall cloud spend or opening up the IT budget for high-demand features such as Data & AI Services.
Reduce your cloud bill through intelligent use of resources and optimization of your cloud strategy.
Improve visibility and control of your cloud costs and make informed decisions based on real-time data.
The return on investment of FinOps initiatives is usually very high, even with low monthly savings.
Reduce your Scope 3 emissions in your supply chain with our "use less" approach.
Accelerate your innovation and scale your cloud environment flexibly and on demand.
Use the full range of Google Cloud's innovative features and services to achieve your individual business goals.
We proudly count ourselves among the pioneers of the European Google Cloud scene. As a certified Google Premier Partner and Managed Service Provider (MSP), we are leaders in the European Google Cloud ecosystem. Our expertise spans migrating diverse workloads to Google Cloud, optimising Google Workspace environments, and smart device management. With certifications in Work Transformation Enterprise, Infrastructure and Cloud Migration, we are your trusted partner for achieving operational excellence and innovation.
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