Cloud costs solutions provide a common platform to reduce spend without adding risks to business operations. We know that costs for public cloud services can quickly get out of hand, so without these solutions, the invoice would be a black box. Yet to many users, desperately seeking to reduce their cloud costs, the root cause of the costs is hidden within subtleties of cloud resources. This makes it difficult for teams to plan work, test their services, and manage costs. But no worries Harness is here to help! Join this session to learn how to scale your development in the cloud with Continuous Efficiency. Attendees will learn how development resources such as idle environments or services with overallocated resources contribute to cloud costs.

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Tiffany Jachja / Evangelist
A Dev’s Guide To Cloud Cost
DeveloperWeek / 2020

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Why cloud costs matter?
Contributors to cloud cost
Recommendations
Agenda
Presented by:
Tiffany Jachja
Evangelist / Harness

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The Promises of Moving to the Cloud
Reduced Costs
Flexibility
Scalability
“accidentally racked up $80,000
a day in unplanned charges”
Reality
Expectations
VS
shiny tool syndrome adds to
required skills & man hours
managing scale & complexity

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We migrated to the Public Cloud
because it was cheaper.
Quote
Said no-one, ever.

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Top Cloud Spenders

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Dream Clouds
Agile Development
Dev & Test Environments
Improved Cross Collaboration
Enhanced Security
And Much More…
The Best
of the Cloud

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Living in
the Cloud

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• Unattached/Orphaned storage volumes ~ GB-month
• Obsolete Snapshots ~ per GB-month
• Idle Load Balancers ~ per hour
• Manage used instances ~ varies, can be per hour
Contributor #1 Unused Resources
Maintain your environments:

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Utilized Cost
40%
40%
Cluster
Node Node Node
Pod
Pod
Idle Cost
60%
40%
60%
40%
Node Node Node
Cluster
Unallocated Cost
60%
40%
60%
40%
Cluster
Node Node Node
Resources allocated to pods, nodes, namespaces & cluster:
Contributor #2 Compute Resources
• CPU (cores)
• Memory (bytes)

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• Storage Cost ~ per GB-month
• API calls / IOPS ~ per request
• Data transfer ~ per GB, (between regions/VPCs or external)
Contributor #3: Sneaky Costs
r/BEWARE: The hidden costs of storage

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• Storage Cost ~ per GB-month
• API calls / IOPS ~ per request
• Data transfer ~ per GB, (between regions/VPCs or external)
Contributor #3: Sneaky Costs
r/BEWARE: The hidden costs of storage

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Contributor #3: Sneaky Costs
A Look at Amazon S3 pricing:

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Contributor #3: Sneaky Costs
A Look at Amazon S3 pricing:

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Contributor #3: Sneaky Costs
A Look at Amazon S3 pricing:

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Contributor #3: Sneaky Costs
A Look at Amazon S3 pricing:

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Architect Monitor Manage
Recommendations
Use dashboards to gather information
on computer, memory, network, and
storage consumption. Use Grafana
and Prometheus to manage app
resource utilization.
Set an expiration date for VMs or
services spun up for the purposes of
test/ dev/ demo. Test locally where
you can. Refactor code to reduce
computing needs.
Architect to maximize the benefits of
Content Delivery Network CDN.
Beware the hidden costs of the cloud
when working in data intensive
services.
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Service A
Service B
Service C
Service D

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Tomorrow
Continuous Efficiency
Today
Monthly Reporting
VS
1 Month to Know Same Day to Know
Root Cost Analysis
Context
Cost Visibility
Setup
Non-Cluster & Cluster Workloads (ECS/Kubernetes)
CFO, CIO, CTO, Developers, DevOps
Dynamic Cost Context (No Tagging)
Account, Cloud Service, Application, Environment, Microservice
Manual Tagging of Cloud Resources
Same Day
1 month Time-to-Know
Non-Cluster Workloads
Account, Cloud Service
CFO, CIO & CTO
Cloud Costs Simplified With Harness

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