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Feels like there is a startup in there? Give it your account number, and read only access keys, and it tells you what and where and how to change things.

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Lots of players in this space. At my work we have:

https://www.apptio.com/products/cloudability/

Just curious what do you think about the service? Is it a lot deeper than what Google itself provides? We are just using Google own service to turn down costs.

So Apptio is a larger application for finance people, with some cloud cost management built in. They are the main users, I just have read only access an login perhaps monthly to view budgets and cloud spend.

I just have access to small bits and pieces, but what I have seen I like.

Thanks for sharing!

Just a note that Google itself is doing that so one has to better than that. I think the ideal candidate is a senior data architect/ops person who has xtensive hand on experience. Sadly I'm so far from it.

Sigh, I'm late for everything in my life.

FWIW the features that GCP exposes for this is way better/easier than AWS's equivalent. So much better

I never used AWS (and am just a peasant using GCP so don't know everything). What differences did you find to be extremely helpful?

GCP puts automatic analysis recommendations in the UI right next to the resources in the table of VM/etc names, and IMO the recommendations (for both upsizing and downsizing) are dramatically more accurate than what AWS gives you

Disparaging yourself is a good way to make sure you don't achieve anything. You should stop.

There are companies out there. I expect to see a number of them when I'm at Kubecon in a month or so.

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