CloudBolt vs Google Cloud Cost Management

CloudBolt provides cloud management and Kubernetes rightsizing for teams governing and optimizing hybrid environments. CloudBolt CMP offers self-service provisioning under policies and standardized workflows. It supports more than 25 cloud providers and hypervisor platforms, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, OpenStack, OpenShift and Kubernetes. Its integration library contains more than 200 tools spanning IT service management, infrastructure-as-code, identity, security and backup. CMP governance includes role-based access, granular permissions, approvals, policy enforcement and audit trails. For cost oversight, it offers cross-environment visibility, budgets, quota enforcement, forecasts and optimization recommendations, along with cost allocation, budget alerts and commitment management. StormForge checks Kubernetes optimization recommendations against performance data and can apply validated changes automatically, with health checks and rollback. Its free trial covers full optimization on one cluster for 30 days. CMP Free costs nothing and includes core CMP capabilities for up to 100 resources, forever. CloudBolt also lists custom billing, paid support packages and professional services.

Google Cloud Cost Management helps organizations monitor, control, and optimize costs for Google Cloud. Its console reports and dashboards show current cost trends and forecasts. Teams can organize costs by organization, folder, project, or label, and use granular permissions to control who can spend, administer billing, or view costs. Budget thresholds can send alerts to stakeholders by email or Pub/Sub; programmatic notifications can also trigger actions to throttle resources and cap costs. Quotas help control spend rates, while recommendations address cost and usage and can be applied to realize savings. Billing usage, cost, and pricing data can be exported automatically to BigQuery. Billing APIs provide access to manage billing accounts, and the App Optimize API supplies resource cost and utilization metrics for dashboards and agents. The tools are available through web and API at no additional charge to Google Cloud customers. Customers still pay for the Google Cloud services they use, which may include BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage. Google Cloud also provides free billing and payments support.