Data Engineering

GCP Data Platform
Cost Optimization

You can't reduce what you can't see. Most teams have no per-pipeline cost visibility, no alerting on runaway compute, and no guardrails to prevent it. We instrument your GCP data platform so every dollar of spend is tagged, attributed, and actionable.

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What we deliver

Visibility, guardrails, and a roadmap

Resource Tagging & Attribution Labels on every pipeline, dataset, and compute resource so billing exports show cost per team, per pipeline, and per environment. No more shared line items nobody can explain.

Pipeline-Level Billing Breakdowns Granular cost reporting that maps spend to individual Dataflow jobs, Composer DAGs, and BigQuery scheduled queries. You see exactly which pipeline costs what.

Automated Spend Alerts Budget thresholds and anomaly detection that fire before a runaway job burns through your monthly allocation. Alerts go to Slack or PagerDuty with enough context to act on immediately.

Compute Guardrails Query cost limits, slot reservations, and autoscaling policies that cap exposure without blocking production workloads. Guardrails that prevent the problem, not just report it after the fact.

Remediation Roadmap A prioritized list of quick wins — partitioning, clustering, materializations — and structural fixes like slot strategy, storage lifecycle, and pipeline rightsizing. Each item includes estimated savings.

Cost Monitoring Dashboard A Looker Studio or Grafana board connected to billing exports, with per-team attribution, trend lines, and alert history so costs stay visible and accountable after we leave.

Who this is for

You might need this if…

You don't know where the money is going

The bill arrives, it's higher than expected, and nobody can explain which pipelines or teams drove the increase. We instrument your platform so every line item has an owner.

A runaway job has burned budget before

One misconfigured query or unthrottled pipeline spiked your bill and nobody caught it until the invoice. We set up the guardrails and alerts so it doesn't happen again.

You need to justify the platform budget

Leadership is asking hard questions about cloud spend. We give you the per-pipeline breakdown and the remediation roadmap — what's being spent, why, and what gets reduced first.

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