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Rachel Dines, Director of Product Marketing

CloudHealth Technologies

August 14, 2017

Best Practices and Policies for

Improving Total Cost of Ownership

of Your AWS Environment

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What We’ll Cover

• Why TCO is critical to cloud success

• What goes into a governance process?

• At what point in the cloud adoption lifecycle should I be thinking

about TCO and governance?

• Real-world examples of driving cost savings, governance, and

security through automation

• How CloudHealth can help


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About CloudHealth Technologies

employees

millionin venture capital raised

Boston (headquarters), San Francisco, Washington DC, London, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Kuala

Lumpur & Amsterdam

channel customers partners

direct customers…

…and

through

1.1

99.99%

yearly platform

uptime

assets

PER MONTH…

$50 million in monthly

RI purchases

1.2 million policies

evaluated

365,000 emails sent

PER DAY…

14 million instances

600PB S3 usage

8TB bills processed

400,000 perspectives / groups

3,000 reports generated

billionAPI callsin cloud spend

managed per year

Our management metrics

Customer Success

Partner Success

Within Budget?

Standardized?

Optimized?

Secure?

ROI?

Elastic?

Monitored?

ConfidentialPredictable Cost

Standardized Workloads

Highly Optimized

Best Practice Security

High Elasticity

Clear ROI

Highly Monitored

TCO: The Total Picture


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How do you know where you are?

Optimization

Standardization

Consolidation

Novice


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Novice

• Unpredictable infrastructure expenses.

• Nagging sense of waste.

• No standards for security.

• Lack of automation.

• Limited or no monitoring.

• Little or no usage of cost optimization.

• Little or no usage of elasticity.


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Prescription for Success

Novice

Gain visibility

Leverage basic cost

optimizations


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Consolidation

• Unclear ROI.

• Unsure of best instance types for you.

• Unable to determine cost per business group.

• No change control.

• Little or no understanding of the different workloads

you operate in the cloud.


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Consolidation

Align cost and usage to business

Remove obsolete infrastructure

Tighten security policies

Leverage elasticity

Standardize on system of record

Raise stakeholder cloud IQ


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Standardization

• Unsure of best configuration for workloads

• Lack of plan for availability/reliability process

• Lack of continuous optimization

• Lack of data driven operating requirements

• Lack of supporting people/roles


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Standardization

Continuously monitor workloads

Continuously standardize workloads

Adopt continuous monitoring

Adopt continuous optimization

process

Automate optimization

Assign people/roles


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Optimization

• Full transparency

• Reference architectures

• Documented policies

• Continuous optimization process

• Continuous monitoring

• Automated optimization

• Clear roles and responsibilities

• Forecasting / ”What if” analysis

• High availability / Reliability


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Optimization

You’ve achieved

cloud success!

When should I start thinking about all of this?

Run &

OperateBuild &

MigrateOptimize

Plan &

Design


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• Savings of over 40% in

monthly costs

• Host 75% of estate in AWS

Cloud within next 3 years –

currently running at 69%

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• Manages and gains visibility into

tens of thousands of Amazon EC2

Reserved Instances with

CloudHealth

• RI savings of up to 90% compared

On-Demand prices

• Maintains tagging governance with

policies and alerts

Pinterest

Pinterest makes 10,000,000,000

personalized recommendations

every day.


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• Between the course of 2016 moved

75% of operations to the public cloud

• Today manage thousands of EC2

instances and several PB’s of S3

storage

• Reducing AWS spend by over a third

while providing real-time visibility

into the efficiency and consistency

of our multi-cloud deployment

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GOVERNANCE • POLICY MANAGEMENT • AUTOMATED ACTIONS

SERVICE LEVEL GROUPING

COLLECT • INTEGRATE • CONSOLIDATE

COST • ASSETS • USAGE • PERFORMANCE • SECURITY

TREND • ANALYZE • OPTIMIZE • REPORT

Incident /

Change

Management

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Asset, Cost, Usage

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Configuration

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Fault & Performance

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Security

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