Speaker: Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini - PlanForCloud Product Lead, RightScale Learn the ins and outs of cloud cost management, including forecasting, comparisons, scenario modeling, and cost reporting. We will demonstrate how to use PlanForCloud and RightScale reporting to improve the cost information you have about your cloud applications.

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sanfrancisco
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Managing Your Cloud Spend
Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Product Manager
Ronnie Regev, Product Manager

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Agenda
• Change to the Cloud – The Mind Shift
• Phases of Cost Management
• 1. Investigation and Planning
• 2. Deploying and Monitoring
• 3. Optimization
• Note: We drink our own Champaign

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The Cloud Mind Shift
VS

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Mind Shift = Confusion = Slipping on Costs
No help from Cloud Providers … I want a server
Cloud Provider
Cloud (region)
Server Type
Operating System
Purchase Option
- On-Demand
- Reserved
- 1 Year, 3 Year
- Light, Medium, Heavy
- Spot Currency
14 months, 29 price changes

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How complex can public cloud price be?
12,000 Price Points!

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Phases of Cost Management
Investigation and Planning

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Investigation
• Proof Of Concept (POC) projects
• Architect the application
• Think about services (compute, storage)
• Think about workloads (temporary, permanent)
• Think about cloud providers
• Cloud Provider Features
• Feature Matrix
• Cloud Provider Performance
• Some tools available
• Might not be required at this stage

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Cloud Providers – Cost
• Things to note at this stage:
• Server costs will be 80-95% of your costs, however, do not look past other
costs
• You pay for the amount of storage you provision, not the amount you use
• Look at different regions
• Pay attention to currencies
• Specific resources for specific use cases
• If you terminate a server with a volume attached, you will still be charged for
the volume

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Phases of Cost Management
Deploying and Monitoring

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Deploying Cost Effective Infrastructure
• Location, location, location !
• Multi-region hosting ->
• Can you do it?
• Should you do it?
• Account & deployment structures
• Per Business Unit Line of Business Service
• Or ….SDLC
• Understand your license costs
• Autoscale

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Monitoring Costs - Demo
• Enterprise Manager Accounts
• Account Quotas
• Deployment Budget Estimate Widget
• Report Manager Demo

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Phases of Cost Management
Optimization

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Optimization techniques
• Resource Optimization
• Using your existing resource more optimally
• Looking at monitoring metrics & assess usage of resources (CPU,
Memory etc)
• Setting procedures in place
• Using the correct resources for each job
• Cost Optimization
• Require business decisions to be made
• Usually cloud provider specific – Purchase Options

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Cost Optimization - Purchase Options
• Commitment for a period of time, discounted rate
• How do you want to pay?
• AWS and Azure
• Can you commit for a period of time?
• Limited by a few factors. OS, Zone, Instance Type.
• Drive behavior
• Upfront vs Monthly costs
• How do your budgets work for the upfront?
• Monthly budget or one off upfront
• Break even points
• Historic usage vs Future Usage
• Note: Next year, the same will maintain costs

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Scenario Building
• Import into PlanForCloud
• Different Purchase Options
• Different Regions
• Different Resources

16. april25-26
sanfrancisco
cloud success starts here
Questions?