Cloud Cost Optimisation [Shift-Left on Cloud Costs]

Cloud Cost Optimisation: A Primer (or: Shift-left on Cloud Spend) Daniel “phrawzty” Maher Engineer // Community Team

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☁ 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?

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