Master FinOps principles and tools on Google Cloud Platform. Learn to monitor, control, and optimize cloud costs through hands-on strategies, real-world use cases, and GCP-native solutions and frameworks.
Key Features
- - Learn FinOps tailored for GCP, from cost allocation and budgeting to cost governance and value realization.
- - Optimize GCP spend, align engineering with finance, and support business efficiency.
- - Through real-world use cases, hands-on tutorials, and tool-driven workflows using GCP-native services.
Book Description
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers unparalleled scalability, but controlling costs is critical. FinOps on GCP is your practical guide to managing and optimizing cloud spend while maximizing business value. Designed for cloud architects, FinOps professionals, and platform engineers, this book covers key FinOps principles and how they are implemented specifically in the GCP ecosystem. Starting with the foundations of FinOps and cloud economics, you'll explore GCP's billing structure, pricing models, and cost optimization strategies. You'll learn to create budgets, monitor usage with BigQuery and Looker Studio, and use tools like the Google Cloud FinOps hub to surface actionable savings opportunities. You'll also develop automation for reporting, implement quota guardrails, and drive accountability across teams. Packed with hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, this book helps you establish a culture of cost transparency and financial accountability across engineering, finance, and operations for your multi-cloud environments. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped to build a mature, automated, and collaborative FinOps practice on GCP.
What you will learn
- Apply FinOps principles to the Google Cloud environment.
- Establish the FinOps operating model, define roles, and enable cross-functional collaboration.
- Navigate GCP billing models, pricing, FOCUS specs, and cost allocation.
- Set budgets, quotas, and alerts to manage spend proactively.
- Analyze usage with BigQuery and visualize spend in Looker.
- Automate reporting, forecasting, and communication using AI.
- Optimize compute, storage, networking, and databases with FinOps Hub.
- Enforce guardrails and foster a strong FinOps culture.
Who this book is for
This book is ideal for FinOps practitioners, cloud architects, platform engineers, and DevOps professionals who want to optimize cloud spend and implement financial accountability in Google Cloud environments. A working knowledge of GCP services, billing concepts, and basic cloud operations is assumed. Familiarity with tools like BigQuery and GCP IAM will be helpful but not mandatory.
