The document outlines three key pitfalls to avoid with cloud data, emphasizing the importance of understanding cloud costs, managing observability data expenses, and implementing financial operations (FinOps) for cloud resource optimization. It highlights the complexity of cloud-native observability and the challenges faced by organizations regarding incident management and developer engagement. The report also notes that by 2023, a significant number of organizations will establish dedicated FinOps functions to enhance cloud resource value.

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3 Pitfalls
Eric D. Schabell
Director Evangelism
@ericschabell{@fosstodon.org}
Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data

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1. Cloud & data

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Understand your
cloud costs?

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De Persgroep
(Based on audience question from ‘Power to Innovate talk)
“Why don’t you go 100% to cloud for hosting your news group
assets?”
The quoted price for hosting was OK, but the bandwidth
quotes were off the charts.
Shortly thereafter, during the Paris attacks (Charlie Hebdo)
the French people crashed all local news sites. The Walloon
(FR Belgium) sites hosted by De Persgroep received an extra
1.2 million unique visitors…. (810K BE, 450K NL).

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2. O11y is data

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Observability across
entire landscape?

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Cloud Native

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Observability…

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“It’s remarkable how common
this situation is, where an
organization is paying more for
their observability data, than
they do for their production
infrastructure.”

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Data complexity
Experiment:
- Hello World app on 4 node
Kubernetes cluster with
Tracing, End User Metrics
(EUM), Logs, Metrics
(containers / nodes)
- 30 days == +450 GB

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The struggle is real
“I don't yet collect spans/traces because I can hardly get our devs to care about basic metrics, let alone traces.”
“This is a large enterprise with approx. 1000 developers. Cultivating a culture of engineering that cares about
availability is a challenge that we need to solve alongside any technical implementations.”

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https://go.chronosphere.io/2023-observability-report.html
87%
of engineers say using
cloud native architectures
have increased the
complexity of discovering
and troubleshooting
incidents

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10 hours
on average, per week, trying
to triage and understand
incidents - a quarter
of a 40 hour work week

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33%
said those issues disrupted
their personal life
39%
admitting they are
frequently stressed out

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22%
said they want to quit

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Cloud Native at Scale

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Cloud Native Observability
at Scale

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O11y at Scale (need)

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3. FinOps the crucial Ops

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Know the cost of
observability
metrics data?

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Dedicated FinOps
“By 2023, 80% of organizations
using cloud services will
establish a dedicated FinOps
function to automate policy-
driven observibility and
optimization of cloud
resources to maximize value.”
-- Source: IDC 2022

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What should be
the #1 item on
cloud wishlist?

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1. … ??? …
2. Determine your goals of migrating data to the cloud
3. Assess your current situation
4. Select the right cloud migration partner
5. Create your business case for the cloud
6. Select the type of cloud environment needed – public, private, hybrid or hybrid-multi?
7. Determine the specific cloud components necessary
8. Choose the right cloud provider
9. Plan the cloud approach
10. Execute the migration
11. Observability of the production environment

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29. Questions?
Eric D. Schabell
Director Evangelism
@ericschabell{@fosstodon.org}