At Costory, our mission is to help organizations move beyond simply tracking cloud costs to understanding what truly drives them. As a Cost Data Platform, Costory connects cloud billing, technical usage data, and business metrics, enabling teams to make data-driven decisions that optimize cloud investments and improve financial accountability.
We are pleased to share that Costory has been recognized by Google Cloud as a Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery partner. This recognition reflects our capability to support Google Cloud users who are looking to mature their FinOps practice by integrating business context and gaining deeper insights into the reasons behind cloud cost fluctuations.
Enabling Google Cloud Users to Operationalize FinOps with Business Context
Costory already enables clients to connect business and product data through various channels, including CSV uploads, S3 buckets, and BigQuery datasets. The Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery designation reinforces Costory as a partner who can help customers:
- Correlate cloud billing data with product usage and business KPIs
- Understand the underlying drivers of cost variation at the feature, customer, or team level
- Apply machine learning models for anomaly detection, forecasting, and dynamic cost attribution
- Integrate cost insights into engineering, finance, and product workflows for operational impact
The Cost Data Platform for All Cost-Related Use Cases
With this architecture, Costory enables Google Cloud users to bring together BigQuery datasets alongside cloud billing and usage data. The platform powers a wide range of workflows across finance, engineering, and product teams.
Costory supports use cases such as:
- Real-time alerting on cost anomalies through Slack or Microsoft Teams
- Collaborative engineering reviews with cost data integrated in tools like Jira and Linear
- Forecasting and unit economics analysis to support finance and FP&A teams in tools like Pigment and Anaplan
- Business-driven reporting aligned with product and technology strategy in Notion or PowerPoint
Enabling Google Cloud Users to Understand the Drivers Behind Cloud Cost Variations
For Google Cloud users operating services such as BigQuery, GKE, and Dataflow, understanding cost variations requires connecting technical consumption with real business impact. Costory’s integration with BigQuery makes it easier for clients to operationalize FinOps practices, enabling visibility into cost drivers and supporting more informed decision-making.
To learn how Costory and BigQuery can help your organization connect cloud spending with business outcomes, contact us to explore the platform in action.