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Cloud Cost Optimisation

Cloud Cost Optimisation

In this webinar, Dan Maher (Engineer, Community Team at Datadog), and I look at how to use HashiCorp Terraform and Datadog to minimise Cloud Waste and get a better understanding of spending.

This version of the workshop was given at a Datadog webinar in October 2021.

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Companion Code: github.com/ksatirli/minimising-cloud-waste

Kerim Satirli

October 06, 2021
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  1. Cloud Cost Optimisation A Primer 6 October 2021 Daniel Maher

    Engineer (Community Team) at Datadog @phrawzty Kerim Satirli Sr. Developer Advocate at HashiCorp @ksatirli
  2. Find Dan on <a href="https://twitter.com/phrawzty">twitter.com/phrawzty</a>.
  3. Find me on <a href="https://twitter.com/ksatirli">twitter.com/ksatirli</a>.
  4. Cloud Market revenue (USD) market share (%) YoY growth (%)

    Amazon Web Services 26,20 40.8 28.7 Microsoft Azure 12,69 19.7 59.2 Alibaba Cloud 6,12 9.5 52.8 Google Cloud Platform 3,93 6.1 202.8 Others 15,34 24 25.6 Source: gtnr.it/3B9xxhE
    Source: <a href="https://gtnr.it/3B9xxhE">gtnr.it/3B9xxhE</a>.
  5. Source: <a href="https://gtnr.it/3B9xxhE">gtnr.it/3B9xxhE</a>.
  6. Cloud Waste 20-30% Spend attributed to cloud waste $17.6B Annual

    public cloud waste $64B Annual spend on public cloud Source: flexera.com/blog/cloud/cloud-computing-trends-2021-state-of-the-cloud-report
    Source: <a href="https://www.flexera.com/blog/cloud/cloud-computing-trends-2021-state-of-the-cloud-report/">flexera.com</a>.
  7. Cloud Waste Source: devops.com/the-cloud-is-booming-but-so-is-cloud-waste $6.6B Wasted from over-sized resources $11B

    Annual public cloud waste “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.”
    Source: <a href="http://devops.com/the-cloud-is-booming-but-so-is-cloud-waste/">devops.com</a>.
  8. Cloud Waste Side - Effects Misallocation Literally: money that could

    - and should - be spent on other things. Brass tacks: wasted cloud spend is basically a vampire that is making your organisation weaker. Risk Lack of governance and oversight across the enterprise results in an increased risk surface. Validated models are easier to reason about, which is part of a heightened security posture. Reduced Productivity Wasted spend is correlated with poor standardisation, or worse yet: anti-patterns. If there’s no easy way for developers to re-use patterns, then everybody re-invents the wheel, over and over again.
  9. ▪ Availability of billing minutiae ▪ Billing data is just

    that: data ▪ Programmatic access to that data ▪ Wait a minute… an API full of metrics? ▪ That can be correlated with deployments? ▪ This sounds like a job for dashboards! Shift-left on Cloud Spend Engineers as the new cloud financial controllers
  10. Shift-left on Cloud Spend …y tho? ▪ Get involved in

    product discussions ▪ Bring insight to business decisions ▪ Increase your capacity to generate value ▪ Level-up your career