# PointFive at Google Cloud Next 2026 | GCP Efficiency Assessment

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PointFive met with GCP teams at Google Cloud Next 2026 for personalized efficiency briefings. Missed us? Get the same GCP optimization walkthrough with a free assessment.

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Google Cloud Next 2026: Recap

# Your GCP Costs Were Hiding Opportunities. Here's What We Found.

FinOps to FinOps. Engineer to Engineer.

Thanks to everyone who booked a briefing with Taylor at Google Cloud Next. Missed us? Get the same personalized walkthrough, no event required.

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Meet 

- Taylor Houck  FinOps Evangelist, PointFive

Past event

- April 22-24, 2026

- Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

- 30 or 60-Minute Briefings

## Google Cloud Next 2026 Has Wrapped

Thanks to everyone who booked time with Taylor at the event. Want the same personalized GCP efficiency walkthrough? Book a demo any time, no conference required.

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## Meet Taylor Houck

Taylor has helped hundreds of engineering and FinOps leaders uncover hidden cloud waste and build sustainable optimization practices. This isn't a sales pitch, it's a consulting conversation about your cloud.

Host, FinOps in Action Podcast. Creator of PointFive's Cloud Efficiency Hub. Joined by a PointFive Solutions Engineer for technical deep-dives.

## Trusted by the FinOps Community

FinOps in Action Podcast / 63+ Episodes. Taylor regularly connects with the industry's leading FinOps practitioners. Guests from leading organizations:

- Adobe

- Deloitte

- Cisco

- IHG Hotels

- Carnival

- Accenture

- Alteryx

- SoftwareOne

- AWS

- Procore

- Euroclear

- SAP

- Invesco

- Sysco

- Gasunie

- Avaloq

[Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/3IpjMc3qxDXZAjic5Zq21t)

## What's Hiding in Your Google Cloud?

These are real findings from PointFive customers running on GCP. Each one is missed or only partly covered by GCP's native tools.

### Missing Autoclass on GCS Buckets

GCP Recommender suggests per-object class changes but never recommends enabling Autoclass, which automates the entire process. One-line gcloud command to fix. Effort 1 / Risk 1. Seen in 78% of GCP environments.

### Suboptimal GCS Soft Delete Policy

A relatively new GCP feature that defaults to 7-day retention. On high-churn buckets, costs compound silently. No native tool flags this. Effort 1 / Risk 1. Seen in 42% of GCP environments.

### Underutilized Cloud SQL Storage

GCP Recommender handles CPU/memory rightsizing but doesn't separately analyze storage provisioning vs. actual usage. Over-provisioned storage is invisible. Effort 1 / Risk 2. Seen in 65% of GCP environments.

### Suboptimal Managed Instance Group Types

Google's MIG rightsizing recommendations exclude regional, autoscaled, and load-balanced groups. PointFive analyzes MIG templates and recommends machine type changes at the template level across all instances. Effort 2 / Risk 2. Seen in 38% of GCP environments.

### Suboptimal Cloud Logging Architecture

Log routing and exclusion configurations that silently accumulate cost. No native tool analyzes Cloud Logging architecture for cost efficiency. Effort 2 / Risk 1. Seen in 55% of GCP environments.

## GCP is just the start

- ### 500+ detections across cloud and data platforms

GCP is just the start. PointFive covers AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Snowflake, and Databricks.

- ### Measure the impact

Prioritize opportunities for your workloads and measure the effect of implemented changes against actual usage and billing.

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