Testers know thy customers - A talk on verifying business ideas using analytics and UX testing
Scalr cost analytics talk
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CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE COSTSUnderstanding and Controlling
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About me
• Thomas Orozco
• Developer Advocate at Scalr
• Cloud Management company
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Why talk about cost?
• Our mission is to help enterprises drive successful cloud adoption
• Cost-effectiveness is an integral dimension of that success
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About you
• DevOps?
• IT?
• Finance?
• Other?
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What this talk is about
• Understanding the implications of cloud adoption from a cost perspective
• Understanding what works, what doesn’t
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Cloud: what changes?
• Developer-centric provisioning process
• IT no longer owns the provisioning process
• No way back
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WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?Cost Tracking for Cloud Resources
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Two key problems
• Visibility Problem: Understanding costs
• Saving Problem: Reducing costs
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3 Key Audiences
• DevOps teams
• Enterprise IT
• Finance
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THE VISIBILITY PROBLEMWhy is it hard to account for usage of cloud resources
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DevOps on Visibility
• Tasked with sticking to a budget
• “How much is this going to cost me? How do I use my budget responsibly?”
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Enterprise IT on Visibility
• Tasked with minimizing waste and optimizing usage
• “How do I tell who owns this resource?”
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Finance on Visibility
• Tasked with breaking down the cloud bill and allocating it across business units
• “How do I tell which business unit is responsible for these costs?”
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Overall the same problem
• Understanding cloud cost requires visibility on:– The use case– The resources– Their associated costs
• Neither DevOps, IT, nor Finance have that visibility
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Existing Solution
• Use metadata (tags) to track resources and link them to their use case and cost
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Tags = extra workload
• Adding tags is more work
• Processing tags is more work
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Tags = inherently imperfect
• People forget
• Mandatory tagging is easily circumvented
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THE SAVING PROBLEMWhy is it hard to reduce cloud costs?
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Finance on Saving
• Tasked with planning budgets according to cash flows
• With visibility, finance can define budgets for organizational units
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Enterprise IT on Saving
• Tasked with enforcing that business units stay on budget
• With visibility, IT can track effective usage against budgets, and enforce those
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DevOps on Saving
• Ultimately, DevOps engineers control the usage of cloud resources
• With visibility on their budget usage, DevOps engineers can identify areas for improvement
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Overall, the same solution
• Solving the visibility problem enables saving
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THANK YOU!