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Browse all trending reads insights
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Read more
PRIORITIZING THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE FOR TRAVEL AND HOSPITALITY BRANDS
USING AWS HEALTHLAKE TO TRACK READMISSION RATES FOR COMPLEX PATIENTS
THE SEISMIC SHIFT IN IT INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCES
Browse all perspectives insights
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Leveraging the Cloud to Protect Against Ransomware
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Mutual Interviewing: How to Make Your Next Job Interview a Two-Way
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Impactful Communities at Pariveda and How They Shaped My First Year
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Read more
3 WAYS BUSINESS LEADERS ARE HELPING THEIR EMPLOYEES FIND THEIR ‘POT OF GOLD’
HOW EFFECTIVE RECYCLING PRACTICES CAN IMPACT THE REDISTRIBUTION OF GLOBAL
RESOURCES AND WEALTH
HOW TO ACHIEVE HEALTHCARE DATA INTEROPERABILITY
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Pariveda Named to 2023 Best Workplaces for Millennials List
Read more
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Browse all resources insights
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Uncovering Dark Data in Healthcare Organizations
Read more
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FUTURE-PROOFING OPERATIONS THROUGH ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
TRANSFORMING MINDSETS TO REALIZE THE VALUE OF A MODERN DATA ENTERPRISE
Browse all case studies insights
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THE SEISMIC SHIFT IN IT INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCES
* Technology & Digital
* March 29
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Cloud computing continues to grow at a breakneck pace, yet organizations
increasingly need help managing cloud costs. Here are 3 questions every tech
leader should consider.
Steven Muschler
AT A GLANCE
* The cloud has improved the efficiency of organizations leveraging compute and
storage resources, which continues to drive an increase in overall
consumption.
* Despite the many benefits of the cloud, organizations are struggling to
manage costs due to a paradigm shift in how compute and storage are
provisioned and how costs are incurred.
* Organizations must consider a holistic solution across technology, people,
and process in order to effectively and sustainably handle cloud cost over
time.
Cloud computing continues to grow at a breakneck pace, yet organizations
increasingly need help managing cloud costs despite its promises of being a
cheaper alternative to traditional infrastructure.
The cloud changed how organizations leverage compute and storage to support and
improve their businesses. The availability and rapid deployment of new resources
have reduced procurement times from months to seconds, and the democratization
of the provisioning process has greatly increased the growth and consumption of
cloud resources. Simply put, leveraging compute and storage resources has become
far more efficient.
This is akin to what happened during the Industrial Revolution. During the 19th
century, the invention of the steam engine greatly increased the efficiency of
consuming coal, leading to a massive uptick in coal consumption. This phenomenon
is known as the Jevons Paradox, which states that increasing the efficiency of a
resource will lead to increased consumption. We see this phenomenon come to life
as cloud spending continues to grow at a breakneck pace, with Gartner projecting
a 20.7% increase in spending in 2023.
KEY REASONS FOR INADVERTENT SPENDING ON CLOUD RESOURCES
The increased consumption of cloud resources is not without its challenges. By
now, most of those who have spent time working on cloud infrastructure at large
organizations have heard about or experienced an incident where the organization
inadvertently spent money on resources. It has even been surveyed that 33% of
cloud spend is wasted. It is easy to point to technical reasons such as
over-provisioning and failing to delete stale resources; however, it is also
important to truly understand why those events occurred in the first place and
did not happen previously.
USAGE-BASED PRICING
Shifting to the cloud has completely changed the pricing model for compute and
storage. Previously business cases were created, and expenses were known prior
to procuring anything. Cloud providers use a different model, Usage-Based
Pricing, where resources are charged for in arrears, and that results in far
slower feedback loops after the spend has been made.
This has led to many of the horror stories we hear about today, where
significant expenditures have been made, and the resulting bill elicits
significant sticker shock. One example of this even saw an Adobe development
team waste half a million dollars in one week when they failed to detect that an
extremely overprovisioned workload was costing them roughly eighty thousand
dollars per day. The Usage Based Pricing model though is only part of the
equation.
LACK OF DEFAULT TRACEABILITY OF EXPENSES INCURRED
Another key element is examining how this model enables these situations to
occur. Employees are not maliciously spending large dollar amounts on cloud
resources intentionally; however, the default lack of traceability and
governance when resources are created in cloud environments leads to the Tragedy
of the Commons. Effectively, when there is a shared resource, people are less
incentivized to be good stewards when using it.
Think of a dog park. It’s a shared resource that folks use with their pups. If
you were to compare that to someone’s private backyard, which do you think would
be cleaner? Part of that would undoubtedly be due to the larger volume of
traffic in the dog park, but certainly, there is also an aspect of how
responsible one feels for the park. If that were not the case, there would be
little need for large signs indicating hefty fines for not picking up after
their dogs.
The same applies to the cloud. Unless accountabilities are created around the
costs that are incurred, intentionally or not, then stories like what befell
Adobe will continue to happen.
> “Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of
> ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.”
>
> Pat Summitt, Legendary NCAA Basketball Coach
A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGING COSTS IN THE CLOUD REQUIRES
TECHNOLOGY, PEOPLE, AND PROCESS
Typical attempts to solve this problem involve different approaches like
procuring a SaaS tool or creating a tagging taxonomy for the organization;
however, those solutions, although valuable, still need to completely address
the issue as they are only focused on the technical perspective. Thoroughly
addressing this problem requires addressing it from a technical perspective, and
a business architecture perspective. Despite cloud computing not being new, many
organizations still need to reconcile that moving to the cloud will result in
new capabilities and skills that need to be gained and new processes to support
the changes to how compute and storage are procured.
Addressing the people and process elements is integral to creating a lasting
solution that creates organizational transparency and accountability. Failure to
do so will only provide a short-term salve instead of a long-term sustainable
solution to effectively managing costs in the cloud.
THREE QUESTIONS EVERY TECH LEADER NEEDS TO CONSIDER
As organizations grapple with this challenge, here are three questions to
consider:
WHAT ARE OUR LEADING CLOUD COST DRIVERS TODAY?
Organizations with multi-million-dollar cloud bills contend with hundreds of
thousands of resources, incurring costs daily. How can we canvas our existing
cloud footprint to see through the noise to prioritize and create an action plan
for low-hanging fruit?
DO WE HAVE PROCESSES TO SUPPORT COST TRACEABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY AS NEW
WORKLOADS ENTER THE CLOUD?
Managing cloud costs is as much about spending today as it is in the future. How
can we be sure that any net-new work in the cloud doesn’t experience the same
challenges we face today?
HAVE WE EQUIPPED OUR EMPLOYEES WITH THE RIGHT TRAINING?
With more power to support rapid innovation and development in the cloud, have
we provided our employees with training and guidance on how their decisions
directly impact cloud spending?
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* Key reasons for inadvertent spending on cloud resources
* A sustainable solution to effectively managing costs in the cloud requires
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* Three Questions Every Tech Leader Needs to Consider
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