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Enterprise-‐Grade Cloud Cost Planning and Management
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Your Panel Today • Ronnie Regev, Product Manager
• Hassan Khajeh-‐Hosseini, Product Manager Q&A • Alex Alvord, Account Manager, RightScale
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Overview • 7 years of expertise with cloud • Multi-Cloud Management • RightScale customers empowered with cloud
• Enterprise self-service IT, dev & test, big data analytics • Leading edge cloud use cases – scalable web, gaming
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Agenda • Change to the Cloud – The Mind Shift
• Phases of Cost Management 1. Investigation and Planning 2. Deploying and Monitoring 3. Optimization
• Note: We drink our own champagne
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Mind Shift = Confusion = Slipping on Costs
12,000 Price Points!!
14 months, 29 price changes
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Phases Of Cost Management
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1. Investigation and Planning • Proof Of Concept (POC) projects
• Not too simple • Might look good, but not a POC • RightScale Webinars
• Architect the application 1. Think about services (compute, storage, data transfers etc)
2. Think about workloads 3. Think about cloud providers
PlanForCloud.com à Cloud Providers
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Cloud Costs – PlanForCloud
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Cloud Cost Tips • Things to note at this stage:
• Server costs will be 70-95% of your costs, however, do not look past other costs
• Storage, Database, Data Transfers, Support, Licenses, Others
• You pay for the amount of storage you provision, not the amount you use • Specific resources for specific use cases
• If you terminate a server with a volume attached, you will still be charged for the volume More: blog.PlanForCloud.com
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Deploying • Location, Location, Location!
• Choose your regions wisely
• Account and deployment structures
• Tag Everything!!!
• Accounts, Servers, Deployments • Report:predicate=tagcontent (report:deployment=dev)
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HA & DR Costs
• Fault tolerance is the goal • Do you know what your HA & DR strategies will cost?
“Everything fails, all the time.” Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com
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Monitoring Costs • Cloud Cost Sprawl
• Low cost resources and quick access can be a blessing and a curse • This is not a one person job but a team effort
• How RightScale does it • At-a-glance
• Deployments & account level costs
• Detailed • Cross-account granular costs
• Solution Demo • Generating cost reporting data • Consuming it through common tools
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3. Optimization • Resource Optimization
• Using existing resources more optimally • Looking at monitoring metrics (CPU, Memory etc) • Setting procedures in place • Using the correct resources for the job (e.g. EBS vs S3 vs Glacier)
• Cost Optimization • Require business decisions to be made • Usually cloud provider specific (purchase options)
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Resource Optimization • Resource Optimization
• Idle Server Identification • Alerting • Shut down entire deployments • Monitoring graphs • Change instance types • Clean out storage • User access control
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Cost Optimization • Purchase options
• AWS & Azure • How do you want to pay (upfront vs. monthly) • Commitment period • Drive behavior • Note: Next year, the same will maintain costs • PlanForCloud can help you with Reserved Instance decisions
• Instance running period • Google & Azure = minutely • AWS = hourly
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What’s Next 1. Simulate your cost structure with PlanForCloud
• Generate a forecast based on your growth pattern
2. Sign up for a free RightScale account
3. Get in touch • Cloud Strategy • Cost Management • Architecture, Performance, Hybrid Cloud etc
Contact RightScale (866) 720-‐0208 [email protected] www.rightscale.com
