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Managing Your Cloud Spend

Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Product Manager

Ronnie Regev, Product Manager

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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 Champaign

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The Cloud Mind Shift

VS

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Mind Shift = Confusion = Slipping on Costs

No help from Cloud Providers … I want a server

Cloud Provider

Cloud (region)

Server Type

Operating System

Purchase Option

- On-Demand

- Reserved

- 1 Year, 3 Year

- Light, Medium, Heavy

- Spot Currency

14 months, 29 price changes

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How complex can public cloud price be?

12,000 Price Points!

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Phases of Cost Management

Investigation and Planning

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Investigation

• Proof Of Concept (POC) projects

• Architect the application

• Think about services (compute, storage)

• Think about workloads (temporary, permanent)

• Think about cloud providers

• Cloud Provider Features

• Feature Matrix

• Cloud Provider Performance

• Some tools available

• Might not be required at this stage

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Cloud Providers – Cost

• Things to note at this stage:

• Server costs will be 80-95% of your costs, however, do not look past other

costs

• You pay for the amount of storage you provision, not the amount you use

• Look at different regions

• Pay attention to currencies

• Specific resources for specific use cases

• If you terminate a server with a volume attached, you will still be charged for

the volume

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Phases of Cost Management

Deploying and Monitoring

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Deploying Cost Effective Infrastructure

• Location, location, location !

• Multi-region hosting ->

• Can you do it?

• Should you do it?

• Account & deployment structures

• Per Business Unit \ Line of Business \ Service

• Or ….SDLC

• Understand your license costs

• Autoscale

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Monitoring Costs - Demo

• Enterprise Manager Accounts

• Account Quotas

• Deployment Budget Estimate Widget

• Report Manager Demo

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Phases of Cost Management

Optimization

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Optimization techniques

• Resource Optimization

• Using your existing resource more optimally

• Looking at monitoring metrics & assess usage of resources (CPU,

Memory etc)

• Setting procedures in place

• Using the correct resources for each job

• Cost Optimization

• Require business decisions to be made

• Usually cloud provider specific – Purchase Options

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Cost Optimization - Purchase Options

• Commitment for a period of time, discounted rate

• How do you want to pay?

• AWS and Azure

• Can you commit for a period of time?

• Limited by a few factors. OS, Zone, Instance Type.

• Drive behavior

• Upfront vs Monthly costs

• How do your budgets work for the upfront?

• Monthly budget or one off upfront

• Break even points

• Historic usage vs Future Usage

• Note: Next year, the same will maintain costs

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Scenario Building

• Import into PlanForCloud

• Different Purchase Options

• Different Regions

• Different Resources

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