What problem does it solve? Cloud teams often struggle to control Google Cloud spending because costs are spread across projects, services, and teams without clear attribution or optimization practices. This Skill provides structured guidance based on the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework Cost Optimization pillar to evaluate workloads and produce actionable cost-saving recommendations. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Workload Assessment: Asks targeted questions about cost culture, monitoring, provisioning, and optimization practices to understand requirements and constraints. - Framework-Grounded Recommendations: Aligns guidance with the four core principles of the Cost Optimization pillar, each linked to official Google Cloud documentation. - Validation Checklist: Evaluates architectures against concrete criteria such as labeling coverage, BigQuery billing export, budgets, rightsizing, CUD coverage, and storage lifecycle policies. - Use Case: A platform engineer preparing for a quarterly cost review uses this Skill to assess a GKE and Cloud Run workload, identify idle resources and missing labels, and produce a prioritized list of optimization actions. ## Quick Start Review my Google Cloud workload architecture and give me cost optimization recommendations based on the Well-Architected Framework.
