Google Cloud Cost Optimization
OhChimp cuts your Google Cloud bill: rightsize Compute Engine, move pd-ssd disks to pd-balanced, catch idle Cloud SQL, and verify savings on the real bill.
How does OhChimp connect to Google Cloud?
You grant a read-only service account key. OhChimp verifies it by reading your project, then pulls cost and configuration metadata through the Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Recommender, and Cloud Monitoring APIs. It never stores application data, secrets, or workload contents.
Does OhChimp need write access or see my data?
OhChimp reads resource configs, billing data, and aggregated metrics with read-only access. It never stores your application data, secrets, or workload contents. The only writes happen when you apply a plan, and you are the one who clicks apply.
What Google Cloud costs can OhChimp reduce?
Idle and oversized Compute Engine VMs, stopped instances still billing for disks, pd-ssd disks that should move to pd-balanced, unattached disks and unused static IPs, idle or oversized Cloud SQL, low Committed Use Discount coverage, GKE node-pool rightsizing, idle Cloud Run min-instances, and Vertex AI token spend plus idle dedicated endpoints. It also reads your Terraform to map google_ resources and how they connect.
Who applies the changes, and can they be rolled back?
You do. Each fix is a reviewable plan with a confidence score, a risk level, and rollback steps. Nothing moves until you click apply, and OhChimp applies the matching code and infrastructure changes together. The pd-ssd migration plan is deliberately non-destructive: it builds a parallel pd-balanced disk and leaves the original until you confirm the swap.
How are the savings verified, and how is OhChimp priced?
Against your real Google Cloud bill. A plan is marked VERIFIED only after 7 or more days, a 10% drop, and 3 consecutive positive checks. Otherwise it stays flagged as not implemented. Pricing is flat monthly, OhChimp never takes a cut of your savings, and a year-one ROI guarantee refunds your subscription fees if it does not pay for itself in the first 12 months on a paid plan.