Are your GCP bills unpredictable? Do you have clear visibility into the overall health of your GCP projects? Let’s get an objective look and make sure your GCP project(s) are optimized and healthy.

GCP Health Check

Optimize your Spend

Your account needs an objective professional review

I’ve been helping organizations adopt cloud technology since 2014. Like most technology, changes happens quickly. And like it or not, sometimes cloud adoption sprawls out of control. Before you know it you’ve got something you’re not quite sure you fully understand. I created the GCP Health Check as a quick and painless way for organizations to understand their environment from a trusted professional. I’m not saying you can’t trust your own people, but sometimes there’s value in having someone from the outside do the work. A fresh set of eyes.

Here’s what I’ll do for you:

• hold an initial meeting to listen to your concerns, ask a few questions, and review the process and timeline;
• gain read-access to your GCP project(s) and begin performing initial research;
• connect an industry trusted cloud diagnostic tool (read-only) to collect data over a 2-4 week period;
• analyze the data and consolidate findings and recommendations into a well-formatted actionable PDF and presentation;
• meet with you to review the presentation summarizing the top issues and recommendations for improvement. If any major issues are found during the health check I will alert you immediately instead of waiting for this meeting;
• and provide guidance for next steps and how to take action.

You should consider using this service if you…

• Run workloads in GCP resulting in at least $1000/mo. in costs.
• Have concerns with the amount you’re spending each month.
• Are not 100% sure about the security and reliability of your environment.
• Can’t visualize what’s in your environment (no diagram).
• Prefer to be informed about your GCP project issues rather than live in ignorance.
• Appreciate objective, well-formed feedback on the health of your GCP projects.

What are the deliverables?

The main deliverable is a comprehensive, actionable read out of your GCP project presented as a PDF report and an executive summary presentation.

First, I thoroughly inspect your account with the help of an industry recognized diagnostic tool. Then I run an audit following the key points of a well-architected framework (performance, reliability, cost, security and operational health) along with considering your specific usage of GCP services. Each section contains recommended actions, which you and your team can take and implement right away.

Will you review all projects, folders, regions, VPC’s, etc.?

GCP environments vary greatly from one customer to the next. We’ll determine specific focus areas on our initial call. The base service includes review of a single GCP project and the core public cloud resources configured within. For example, GCE, GAE, GCS, VPCs, IAM, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, etc. The findings and recommendations in this assessment are based on provisioned GCP products and services only (basically anything that you’re paying for each month).

This assessment does not involve OS and application layers. For example, the applications running within GCE instances will not be reviewed, but the GCE instances themselves will be reviewed.

Do you provide remediation of issues found?

In the basic package, there’s no actual remediation work happening. I’m giving you a punch list of high value recommendations which you can complete on your own, hire me to fix them, or hire another consultant to help. The goal is to provide you with insight and best practices to optimize your projects.

I’m busy and don’t have much time. What’s my level of involvement?

Here’s what you do (not too much):

• Tell me about your business and quick history of GCP adoption at the initial meeting. Please come prepared with your list of concerns and be ready to share your screen via Google Meet or Zoom.
• Provide me with IAM credentials for your GCP account.
• Stay in touch during the process, in case any questions arise.
• Review the audit results and ask clarifying questions. I’ll be happy to answer them and update the final version of the report.

How much does the health check cost? How long will it take?

The health check currently costs $2,997. You’ll receive an actionable report described above, personal consultation, and an executive summary presentation. Others have seen ROI within weeks!

Additional GCP projects can be reviewed for $1,497 each, as long as it’s started within 30 days from the completion of the original audit.

You’ll get your audit report within 4-6 weeks after our initial consultation. That’s way faster and more effective than waiting for a large firm to do this for you.

The previous audits have generated great feedback. In fact, some clients have recouped the cost of the audit by implementing my suggestions in just weeks. That’s why I provide a full 100% money-back guarantee on this offering. If you’re not happy with the audit results — I’ll give you a full refund, no questions asked.

I’m interested! How do we get started?

Please send me an email at eric@eliasinteractive.com briefly describing your business and your top GCP problems. If you’re a good fit for the audit, I’ll send you a scheduling link for the initial consultation.