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AWS re:Invent re:Cap 행사에서 발표된 강연 자료입니다. 이종남 프로페셔널 컨설턴트가 발표한 자료에서 더 자세한 내용을 담은 심화 콘텐츠입니다. 작성자는 이원일 시니어 컨설턴트입니다.
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Optimizing for Cost in the AWS Cloud - 5 Ways to Further Save - AWS Summit 20...Amazon Web Services
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Whether you’re a cash-strapped startup or an enterprise optimizing spend, it pays to run cost-efficient architectures on AWS. This session reviews a wide range of cost planning, monitoring, and optimization strategies, featuring real-world experience from AWS customers. We’ll cover how you can effectively combine EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot instances to handle different use cases, leveraging auto scaling to match capacity to workload, choosing the most optimal instance type through load testing, taking advantage of multi-AZ support, and using CloudWatch to monitor usage and automatically shut off resources when not in use. We'll discuss taking advantage of tiered storage and caching, offloading content to Amazon CloudFront to reduce back-end load, and getting rid of your back end entirely, by leveraging AWS high-level services. We will also showcase simple tools to help track and manage costs, including the AWS Cost Explorer, Billing Alerts, and Trusted Advisor. This session will be your pocket guide for running cost effectively in the Amazon cloud.
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3. 30%
15%
% of Cloud Spend Wasted
Cloud Users Underestimate Wasted Spend
Source: RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report
Self-Estimated
Wasted Spend
Additional
Wasted Spend Measured
by RightScale
4. 3%
16%
19%
20%
23%
33%
30%
30%
31%
45%
4%
15%
20%
24%
25%
31%
33%
35%
38%
52%
Use Google Preemptible VMs
Use AWS Spot Instances
Move workloads to cheaper cloud/region
Select cloud or region based on cost
Track AWS RIs to make sure they are used
Purchasing AWS RIs
Look for storage volumes not in active use
Shut down workloads during certain hours
Automate shut down of temporary workloads
Monitor utilization and rightsize instances
How Companies are Optimizing Cloud Costs
2017 2016
Companies Increase Focus on Cloud Costs
Source: RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report
5. Two Solutions from RightScale
VIRTUAL
SERVERS
PUBLIC
CLOUDS
IAAS+/PAAS
SERVICES
PRIVATE
CLOUDS
BARE METAL
SERVERS
CONTAINER
CLUSTERS
MULTI-CLOUD ORCHESTRATION AND GOVERNANCE
RIGHTSCALE OPTIMA
Collaborate across cloud governance teams,
business units, and resource owners to
manage and optimize cloud spend
RIGHTSCALE CMP
Orchestrate, automate, and govern
applications across any cloud, any cloud
service, any server, and any container.
10. Tagging: Define Required Global Tags
Tag Type Examples Purpose
Environment env:dev, env:test,
env:stage, env:prod
Used to identify the environment type
Billing bu:bigbu
cc:sales
region:emea
One ore more tags used to allocate
costs
Application app:bigapp
svc: jenkins
One or more tags to define the
application or service
Compliance dataresidency:germany
compliance:pii
compliance:hipaa
One or more tags to define and
compliance requirements
Optimization schedule:24x7
schedule:12x5
maxruntime:14days
One ore more tags to use in automated
optimization
11. • Tag all types of resources that you can
• Resource naming conventions not enough
• Use the same tags for all clouds/environments
• Be exact
• Spelling, spaces, punctuation, upper/lowercase matters
• Use existing automation tools to apply tags
Tagging Tips
12. • Sample rollout process
• Stage 1: Define and communicate required tags
• Stage 2: Scheduled reports on missing tags by team/app
• Stage 3: Instant alerts on missing tags with 12 hour shutdown warning
• Stage 4: Instant alerts and shutdown
Tagging Rollout Process
13. • Account-Based vs. Tag-Based
• Each billing unit has own account(s)
• Shared accounts with costs allocated via tagging
• Purchase/Allocation of Discounts
• Centralized purchase – everyone saves
• Allocate savings proportionally (blended rates)
• De-centralized purchase – buyer saves
• Allocate savings to buyer (unblended rates)
• Handling “upfront” payments for purchase commitments
• Allocate at purchase time based on current usage levels
• Amortize and allocate based on actual usage
• Markups for IT overhead
Cloud Cost Allocation Considerations
14. • Combine Push and Pull
• Schedule automated reports by team/group
• Enable ad-hoc access to latest and greatest cost data
• Frequency
• Typically weekly
• Daily for variable or fast changing environments
• Highlight anomalies
• Significant changes outside normal ranges
Reporting
15. • When to forecast
• Annual budget cycle
• Rolling forecast cycle
• When budget is exceeded for x months
• For new applications/projects/initiatives
• Approaches to Forecasting
• Projected growth patterns
• Change cloud provider
• Change instance types
• Other “what-if”
Forecasting
16. • Set Budgets
• Use forecasts to create budgets
• Budget Alerts
• Alert when current or projected monthly spend exceeds budgets
• Provision-time controls
• Soft limits
• alert if over budget
• request approval before launch if over budget
• Hard limits
• prevent launch if over budget
Budget Enforcement
23. Underutilization is Rampant
Memory utilization
CPUutilization
High CPU utilization
Low memory utilization
Low CPU and memory
utilization
Custom VMs
Downsize
24. Custom Sizing Example (GCP)
4 vCPU
20 GB
You Need Standard VM Custom VM
GCP Cost = $.280/hr GCP Cost = $.163
Savings = 42%
8 vCPU
30 GB
4 vCPU
20 GB
32. Development Environment Shutdown Dates
Needed
for 3 days
Left running for 4 days
Left running for 7 days
Left running for 14 days
25% waste
57% waste
79% waste
33. A Little Waste Adds Up
Typical
m3.large ($.133)
24x7
16 days
Optimized
m3.medium ($.067)
12x5
14 days
$51.07
$11.26
78%
less
$102,140
$22,520
Per launch 100 devs * 20x/yr
Save
$79K
37. Regional Differences in AWS Example
Region Location
Instance
Size
Hourly
Cost
Cheaper
Region Location
Hourly
Cost % savings
us-west-1 NorCal m3.large $0.15 us-west-2 Oregon $0.13 14%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt m3.large $0.16 eu-west-1 Ireland $0.15 8%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore m3.large $0.20 ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.19 5%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo m4.large $0.17 ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.17 5%
Expensive
Region
Monthly
Spend
Cheaper
Region
%
savings
Monthly
savings
us-west-1 $5,000 us-west-2 14% $700
eu-central-1 $0 eu-west-1 8% $0
ap-southeast-1 $2,000 ap-southeast-2 5% $100
ap-northeast-1 $0 ap-northeast-2 5% $0
$800
38. Regional Differences in Azure Example
Region Location
Instance
Size
(Linux)
Hourly
Cost Cheaper Region Location
Hourly
Cost
%
savings
East US Virginia D1v2 $0.07 East US 2 Virginia $0.06 12%
North Central US Illinois D1v2 $0.07 South/West Central US Texas $0.06 12%
Central US Iowa D1v2 $0.07 South/West Central US Texas $0.06 12%
West US California D1v2 $0.07 West US 2 $0.06 12%
Canada Central Toronto D1v2 $0.08 Canada East Quebec City $0.07 9%
West Europe Netherlands D1v2 $0.08 North Europe Ireland $0.07 14%
East Asia Hong Kong D1v2 $0.11 Southeast Asia Singapore $0.09 15%
Japan East Tokyo D1v2 $0.11 Japan West Osaka $0.09 13%
Australia East NSW D1v2 $0.09 Australia Southeast Victoria $0.08 7%
42. Your Reality is Constant Change
Family A
2 vCPU
4 GB
Family C
8 vCPU
8 GB
Now
Family A
2 vCPU
4 GB
Family B
2 vCPU
8 GB
Family B
2 vCPU
8 GB
Family A
2 vCPU
4 GB
Family A
4 vCPU
8 GB
Future
Family A
2 vCPU
4 GB
Family B
2 vCPU
8 GB
Family B
1 vCPU
4 GB
Family B
1 vCPU
4 GB
Family A
2 vCPU
4 GB
Family A
2 vCPU
4 GB
43. AWS
RIs
Azure
CPP
Google
SUD/ CUD
IBM
Monthly
Length of
commitment
1 or 3 years CPP
Compute pre-purchase
for 1 year
(must have EA)
SUD: No commitment Monthly: Commit by
month
Payment No Upfront
Partial Upfront
All Upfront
All Upfront No Upfront By month
Range of discount
levels
RI (1Y) 24-58%
RI (3Y) 32-75%
CPP 19-63% SUD: Up to 30%
CUD: 37% (1Yr) or 55%
(3Yr)
Monthly: About 10%
Commitment
Discount
“Grouping”
*Region +
Instance type +
OS +
**Network
*Regional benefit
**Network can be
modified
Datacenter + Instance
type + Instance size +
OS
Has time flexibility
Region +
# vCPUs +
# GBs RAM
*Across any instance
size/type
Any specific individual
resource
Comparing Commitment Discounts by Cloud
45. Azure Gives Time Flexibility
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
D2 v2
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Buy blocks of 744 hrs/month
of an instance type/size/OS/region and
use any time in the month
46. About Google Sustained Use Discount (SUD)
• No commitment. The more you use an instance family during
the month, the higher the discount.
Usage Level
% of Billing Cycle
Incremental Rate
% of On-Demand Baseline
Sample Rate
n1-standard-1
Total Cost
0-25% 100% $0.050 $9.00
25-50% 80% $0.040 $7.20
50-75% 60% $0.030 $5.40
75-100% 40% $0.020 $3.60
Monthly Cost
at 100% usage
30% discount $25.20
47. • Commit to # of vCPUs and GBs of RAM
• 1 yr or 3 yr
• Can be used for any instance type or size in a region
• SUD still applies for non-committed use
Google CUD is Based on Family/Size
48. Think “Commitment Discount” Coverage
100 instances
50 Instances under CD
50% CD coverage 50% On-Demand pricing
49. Usage/Cost Pattern for a Commitment Group
48
Production and 24x7 dev usage
Weekday dev usage
50. Think “Commitment Discount” Coverage
49
Target CD Coverage may range from 50-90%
Depends on level of change planned and flexibility of commitments