Cloud Cost Optimisation [Shift-Left on Cloud Costs]
A presentation at HashiCorp Maximizing Cloud Efficiency Virtual Roadshow by Daniel "phrawzty" Maher
Cloud Cost Optimisation: A Primer (or: Shift-left on Cloud Spend) Daniel “phrawzty” Maher Engineer // Community Team
- Recovering sysadmin - Devopsdays global team - Really into measuring stuff b e p i u Éq g u ea ! e oss 📧 phrawzty@datadoghq.com 🐦 @phrawzty 💼 speaking.dark.ca/
☁ Let’s talk about… The Cloud
Public cloud market Revenue (USD) Market Share (%) YoY Growth (%) Amazon Web Services 26.20B 40.8 28.7 Microsoft Azure 12.69B 19.7 59.2 Alibaba Cloud 6.12B 9.5 52.8 Google Cloud Platform 3.93B 6.1 202.8 Others 15.34B 24 25.6 Source: gtnr.it/3B9xxhE
Real money is getting spent $64B Annual spend Source: gtnr.it/3B9xxhE 41% Annual growth
Real money is getting wasted $64B $17B Annual spend Annual waste Source: devops.com/the-cloud-is-booming-but-so-is-cloud-waste
Real money is getting wasted “Between idle and over provisioned resources alone, that’s $17.6B in cloud spend that will be completely wasted this year. And the potential is even higher […] That’s a minimum of about $5M wasted per day, every day this year, that could be reallocated toward other areas of the business.” $6.6B Over-sized resources Source: flexera.com/blog/cloud/cloud-computing-trends-2021-state-of-the-cloud-report
Side-effects of cloud waste
- Reduced productivity - Increased risk - Resource misallocation
Wasted cloud spend is a vampire that is making your organisation weaker. ��
Let’s talk about… Opportunity
Shift-left on cloud spend
Availability of billing minutiae Billing data is just that: data Programmatic access to that data The data is metrics! This is absolutely our wheelhouse
Yeah but why though?
Get involved in product discussions Bring insight to business decisions Literally generate new value Level-up your career
…yeah you probably saw that one coming ;)
In traditional IT and on-prem computing, the true costs of each operation can be difficult to ascertain. In the cloud however, everything is a line item—and while cloud spend is a real thing, a lot of organisations aren’t great at controlling it. In this talk, Matt from Datadog will introduce the idea of shifting-left on cloud spend, and how engineers can become an important part of the product and business-level conversations at their organisation.
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