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name: gcp-finops description: "GCP cost optimization and resilience skill. Use for GCP billing budget alerts, committed use discounts, sustained use discounts, cost allocation labels, GCP Recommender, Cloud SQL PITR, multi-region DR, and RTO/RPO planning. Triggers: GCP cost, billing, committed use discount, sustained use discount, cost optimization GCP, DR planning, RTO, RPO, disaster recovery GCP." allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep metadata: triggers: ["GCP cost", "billing alert", "committed use discount", "CUD", "sustained use discount", "cost optimization GCP", "DR planning GCP", "RTO", "RPO", "disaster recovery GCP", "GCP Recommender", "FinOps GCP"] related-skills: [gcp-cloud-run, architecture-design, terraform-specialist, deployment-engineer] domain: infrastructure role: specialist scope: operations output-format: document last-reviewed: "2026-03-14"

GCP FinOps

Iron Law

NO GCP COST WORK WITHOUT:
1. Verifying cost allocation labels are applied to all resources (project, service, environment)
2. A billing budget alert configured before committing spend
3. Using terraform-specialist agent for Committed Use Discount reservations (never manual console)

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This Skill vs Related Agents

Task	Use This Skill	Use Which Agent
Cost analysis, Recommender review	YES	—
Right-sizing Cloud Run services	YES +	deployment-engineer
CUD / Spend-based reservations (Terraform)	NO	terraform-specialist
Billing budget Terraform resource	YES (pattern here)	terraform-specialist (apply)
DR runbook, RTO/RPO planning	YES	—
Multi-region Cloud Run deploy pipeline	NO	deployment-engineer
Cloud SQL HA Terraform config	YES (pattern here)	terraform-specialist (apply)

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Pattern Selector

What do you need?
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    +-- Reduce GCP spend / right-size resources?
    |   -> Load: reference/gcp-cost-optimization.md
    |   -> Section: Cloud Run Cost Optimization + Monthly Cost Audit Checklist
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    +-- Set up billing budget alerts?
    |   -> Load: reference/gcp-cost-optimization.md
    |   -> Section: GCP Billing Budget Alert (Terraform resource)
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    +-- Plan disaster recovery / set RTO+RPO targets?
    |   -> Load: reference/gcp-resilience-dr.md
    |   -> Section: RTO/RPO Targets by Tier
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    +-- Run GCP Recommender to find cost savings?
    |   -> Load: reference/gcp-cost-optimization.md
    |   -> Section: GCP Recommender — Cost Insights (gcloud commands)
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    +-- Cloud SQL HA or PITR recovery?
        -> Load: reference/gcp-resilience-dr.md
        -> Section: Cloud SQL High Availability + PITR Recovery

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GCP Cost Tools — Quick Reference

• GCP Billing Console — console.cloud.google.com/billing — cost breakdown by project, service, label
• Cloud Cost Management — cost table, cost breakdown report, budget history
• GCP Recommender — automated right-sizing, idle resource, and CUD recommendations (gcloud recommender)
• Active Assist — umbrella for all Recommender signals; surfaces in Cloud Console dashboard
• Committed Use Discounts — 1-yr (~37% off) or 3-yr (~55% off); resource-based or spend-based
• Sustained Use Discounts — automatic for Compute Engine VMs running >25% of month; no action needed

Deep patterns, gcloud snippets, and Terraform resources → reference files below.

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Reference Files

File	Load When
reference/gcp-cost-optimization.md	Cost analysis, CUD/SUD, Cloud Run sizing, billing budgets, Recommender, label enforcement, monthly audit
reference/gcp-resilience-dr.md	RTO/RPO planning, Cloud SQL HA + PITR, multi-region Cloud Run, Global LB failover, Firestore multi-region, DR runbook

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Cross-References

• Terraform resources (CUD, budgets, SQL HA): Dispatch terraform-specialist agent to apply patterns from reference files
• Cloud Run deployment / right-sizing: Use deployment-engineer agent with sizing flags from reference/gcp-cost-optimization.md
• Architecture decisions (multi-region): Use architecture-design skill + architect agent for ADR
• Security review (WIF, IAM): Dispatch security-reviewer after any infrastructure change
• Cloud Run functions: See gcp-cloud-run skill