Cloud Audit: More Than Just Security - Improve Your Cloud Performance & Drive Cloud Cost Savings
For businesses that have rapidly scaled or work extensively with third parties, it can be difficult to know where to begin when it comes to addressing concerns and unknowns in their Google Cloud environment.
Often, businesses don't know exactly how their environment is configured or what the impact of potential changes may be.
This is where our Cloud Audit comes in. At its core, a Google Cloud Audit is a systematic examination of your cloud environment, encompassing infrastructure, configurations, security, and operational processes. It allows businesses to gain a greater understanding of their cloud environment so they can make data-driven decisions to suit their needs.
Cloud Audit & Security
Many businesses use Cloud Audits as a security measure to ensure they meet regulatory requirements and mitigate risks.
They do this because a Cloud Audit can identify vulnerabilities within your environment, uncovering security misconfigurations, weak access controls, and other vulnerabilities that malicious actors could potentially exploit.
It also provides valuable information for incident response, such as identifying access controls and clearly identifying who has access to your business's sensitive information.
However, while our Cloud Audit can assist with security and compliance, we can also dig deeper into your Google Cloud environment to discover benefits that extend beyond simply ticking regulatory boxes.
The Untapped Potential Of A Cloud Audit
Without the right tools, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in complex cloud environments can be challenging for many businesses.
Our Cloud Audit solves this by identifying bottlenecks and pinpointing performance issues and their causes. It also shows which resources are under-allocated and not performing at maximum output or which are over-allocated and could be consolidated or downsized with minimal effect on output.
Beyond improving performance, a Cloud Audit can also enhance operational efficiency.
Most businesses struggle to maintain visibility when managing their cloud environments. Our Cloud Audit provides a comprehensive overview of your cloud resources and environment configuration. This enhanced visibility simplifies troubleshooting and helps you implement steps within your business to address the concerns raised. As a knock-on effect of this increased visibility, some customers have seen unexpected benefits, such as increased collaboration across teams.
Increased visibility also means you can make key business decisions based on a clear understanding of your Cloud environment. Many businesses guess when it comes to their Cloud environment, but with our Cloud Audit, you can see through the smoke to make clear, informed decisions about resource allocation, optimisation, and cloud management.
How does a Netpremacy Cloud Audit work?
Our Cloud Audit goes back to basics and assesses the foundations upon which your Google Cloud infrastructure is reliant.
We've divided our audit into three main stages:
Stage 1: Discovery—Defining Your Focus: Our team will conduct a workshop with you to establish your reasons and motivation for conducting a Cloud Audit. The findings will then help us develop our areas of focus. We will then present this information to you to ensure both sides have a clear understanding of the project's scope and timelines.
Stage 2: The Audit—Uncovering the Data: Once we have established our areas of focus, we will create and run tailored scripts within your Google Cloud environment to obtain the required information and data.
Stage 3: The Report—Actions & Insights: This will be presented in a format that best suits our findings. The report will highlight considerations and anomalies within each established focus area, giving you a holistic view of your current setup and potential next steps to address any concerns.
Why Netpremacy?
As a Google Premier Partner, we are experts in all things Google Cloud. We help global companies transform and energise their business to gain a competitive edge. Trusted by trailblazers like Just Eat Takeaway and Morrisons, we build lasting partnerships with our customers to ensure their Google infrastructure develops as they do.
A Cloud Audit Is Just The Start
Based on our Cloud Audit findings, we have seen a number of our customers go on to work with our FinOps practice to cut their cloud spending while maintaining their existing output.
Our FinOps practice is centred around two main programs:
Accelerate: This program equips businesses with the knowledge needed to enhance and understand their cloud management capabilities.
Embed: Our Embed program provides you with a dedicated FinOps consultant who will act as an extension of your team.
Contact us today to learn more about how our Cloud Audit or FinOps solutions can help you unlock the full potential of your cloud investment.
