Cloud Cost Management

Harness Cloud Cost Management simplifies and automates the features FinOps, CloudOps, and Engineering teams need to take control of cloud spend.
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Google Cost Management

Cloud Billing is a collection of tools that help you track and understand your Google Cloud spending, pay your bill, and optimize your costs.

Company size
Company size

37k+ (GCP Team)

Founded
Founded

2008 (GCP Launch)

Funding
Funding

Public Company

Google Cloud Billing is categorized as:
Cloud Cost Management (CCM)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the cloud technology division of Google

How Does Google Cost Management Compare?

Google Cost Management is a suite of products that work together to give cost visibility and savings recommendations, and is “good enough” for the basics, but lacks any support for cost savings automation or multi-cloud cost management that Harness provides.

Google Cost Management vs Harness: DevOps Tools Comparison

Updated

November 30, 2023

  • Saas
  • Audience & Primary Users
  • Cloud Support
  • Time Granularity
  • Tag Management Required
  • Hybrid Cloud Visibility
  • Cloud Account Visibility
  • Cloud Region Visibility
  • Application Visibility
  • Microservice Visibility
  • Environment Visibility
  • Non-Cluster Visibility (Services)
  • Cluster Visibility (Kubernetes/ECS)
  • Root Cost Analysis (3 Metrics)
  • Cloud Event Correlation (e.g. deploy)
  • Cost Recommendations
  • Alerting & Budgets
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Reporting
  • Documentation
  • Automated Idle Resource Management
  • Cloud Cost Business Intelligence

<yes><yes>

Engineering & Finance

All

Hourly

<yes><yes> Optional

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Utilized, Idle, Unallocated

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Finance

<with><with> GCP Only

Hourly

<yes><yes> Optional

<with><with> GCP Only

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<with><with> Only With Tagging, Only for GCP

<with><with> Only With Tagging, Only for GCP

<with><with> Only With Tagging, Only for GCP

<yes><yes>

<with><with> Only GKE

<no><no>

<no><no>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

<no><no>

Features
Harness CCM
Harness CCM
Google Cost Management
Solution
Deployment Option

SaaS and Self-Hosted

SaaS

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Multi-Cloud Support

AWS, Azure, and GCP

GCP Only

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
On-Prem Cost Monitoring

<with><with>
Kubernetes Only

<no><no>

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Pricing Model

Percentage Cloud Spend

Free

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Cost Visibility
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback

<yes><yes>

<with><with>

Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload)

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Import 3rd Party Costs

Coming soon

<no><no>

Out-of-the-Box Dashboards

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Custom BI Dashboards

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Forecasting

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Cloud Inventory

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Automated Idle Resource Management

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Spot Orchestration

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Kubernetes Node-Pool Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Kubernetes Workload Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

AWS Compute Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Azure Compute Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

GCP Compute Recommendations

<no><no>

<yes><yes>

RI / SP Planning and Recommendations

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Automated RI / SP Contract Execution

<yes><yes>

<with><with>

Governance
Out-of-the-Box Governance Policy Rules

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Automated Governance Rule Enforcement

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

AI Assisted Governance Rule Creation

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Budgets

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Alerts

<yes><yes>

<with><with> Budgets Only

Reporting

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Administrative
Multi-Currency Support

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

MSP Margin Adjustments

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Role-based Access Control

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Full Audit Trails

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

APIs Available

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

24/7 Support Available

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Training

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Documentation

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

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Summary

Google Cost Management is a suite of products including Google Cloud Billing, Recommenders, and the newly released FinOps Hub (Sept 2023) that together provide a good set of visibility, savings, and forecast tools for GCP. As a free tool available to GCP customers, it provides the basics that finance teams and budget owners want to know. However, they fall short in providing support for multi-cloud setups and container orchestration outside of GKE, which is where the world is headed. To fully leverage the capabilities of Google Cloud Billing and get a deep understanding of costs, there’s an inordinate amount of tagging required, and customers find themselves lacking support for day-to-day operations, as with services such as anomaly detection. Google Cloud Billing is built for point-in-time views into costs, not for the daily toil that goes into efficient cloud cost management.

If you’re looking for rich multi-cloud and container cost visibility, automated cost savings, and cloud governance, Harness Cloud Cost Management is the clear winner. Harness delivers automated cost savings features such as Cloud AutoStopping and Commitment Orchestration, creating cost savings opportunities that don’t exist with manual efforts. Our Cloud Asset Governance gives our customers the ability to proactively control and govern cloud costs over time, allowing our customers to get more from their cloud.

Multi-cloud Cost Visibility

With over 60% of organizations having some or all of their workloads spread across multiple cloud providers, it’s critical that cloud cost management tools have the ability to track and report on all multi-cloud costs for an organization. As expected, Google Cost Management tools only support GCP infrastructure.

Harness provides granular cost visibility for AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as Kubernetes deployments on these cloud providers as well as on-premises, all delivered in easy-to-consume reports and dashboards customized to your users’ business needs. 

Automated Cost Savings: 

Getting engineers to take action on cloud cost recommendations shouldn’t be your only path to cloud cost savings. Automation can unlock cost savings opportunities that simply can’t be realized with manual or scripted efforts. Harness CCM has a multitude of automation tools that save our customers money, from idle cloud resource management (Cloud Autostopping) to spot instance orchestration, and Commitment Orchestration, which save our customers up to 90% on cloud costs when used together

The only savings automation that Google (in general, not in Google Cloud Billing) provides is an option to auto-renew Committed Use Discounts (CUDs). There is no intelligence built-in to understand what *should* be renewed, and once a CUD is renewed, it can not be canceled. Customers could be stuck with contracts that no longer meet their needs, leading to cloud cost waste. 

Cost Anomaly Monitoring

Harness allows customers to automatically flag and drill down to any anomalous cost spikes, avoiding end-of-month surprises. Leveraging machine learning that customizes itself to a customer’s environment, including customizations for seasonality, customers can proactively detect and resolve cost spikes. Google Cloud Billing does not provide any insights into unexpected cost spikes.

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