The document discusses the four phases of cloud optimization, emphasizing the importance of cost savings, risk reduction, and process effectiveness in managing cloud resources. It provides a framework for determining an organization's current optimization status and offers strategies for improving governance and automation. Examples from companies like News Corp and Pinterest illustrate successful implementations and cost reductions achieved through cloud optimization practices.

1. The Four Phases of
Cloud Optimization
Rachel Dines, Product Marketing, CloudHealth Technologies
Ennio Carboni, Product Management, CloudHealth Technologies

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Agenda
• What are the components of cloud optimization?
• Introducing the cloud optimization model and how to navigate it
• Real-world examples of driving cost savings, governance, and
security through automation
• How CloudHealth can help

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Optimization is more than just cost
What goes into Cloud Optimization?
Cloud
OptimizationCost Savings
Time Efficiency
Risk Reduction
Process
Effectiveness
Availability

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How do you know where you are?
Optimization
Standardization
Consolidation
Novice
Governance
Optim
ization

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Standardization
Consolidation
Novice
How do you know where you are?
Governance
Optim
ization
• 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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Standardization
Consolidation
Novice
Prescription for Success
Governance
Optim
ization
✓ Gain visibility
✓ Leverage basic cost
optimizations

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Optimization
Standardization
Consolidation
Novice
How do you know where you are?
Governance
Optim
ization
• 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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Optimization
Standardization
Consolidation
Novice
Prescription for Success
Governance
Optim
ization
✓ 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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Optimization
Standardization
Consolidation
Novice
How do you know where you are?
Governance
Optim
ization
• 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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Optimization
Standardization
Consolidation
Novice
Prescription for Success
Governance
Optim
ization
✓ Continuously monitor workloads.
✓ Continuously standardize workloads.
✓ Adopt continuous monitoring.
✓ Adopt continuous optimization
process.
✓ Automate optimization.
✓ Assign people/roles.

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Optimization
Standardization
Consolidation
Novice
How do you know where you are?
Governance
Optim
ization
• 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
Standardization
Consolidation
Novice
How do you know where you are?
Governance
Optim
ization
You’ve achieved
cloud success!

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When should I start thinking about all of this?
Run &
Operate
Build &
Migrate
Optimize
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%
News Corp
Global media company comprised of 100+ publications.

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•Manages and gains visibility into
tens of thousands of 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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•Over the course of 2016 shifted 95%
of operations to the public cloud
•Today manage thousands of EC2
instances and PBs of S3 storage
•Reducing AWS spend by 38-50%
with help from CloudHealth
Scholastic
Scholastic is the world’s largest
publisher and distributor of
children’s books

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