Cloud Costing Services

David StromAITP-STL 8/15

david@strom.comCopies of presentation:

http://slideshare.net/davidstrom

Why bother with these services?

• Find the cheapest cloud provider for a particular workload size and duration

• Plan ahead by using reserved instances• Optimize your spend• Use a burstable CPU rate or distribute your

workloads • Find a more cost-effective support plan

What you can rent these days

• Azure G5: 48 GB RAM, 6.59 TB SSD, 32 cores• AWS c3: 60 GB RAM, 640 GB disk, 32 cores• Google n1: 208 GB RAM, 32 cores• Rackspace compute optimized: 240 GB RAM

Google vs. AWS

Why cloud math is tricky

• How many hours are in a month?

AWS’ Spot Pricing

And price reductions!

Cloudorado.com

PlanForCloud.com

Cloudability.com

CloudHealth.com

So what next?

• Examine your past year’s cloud bills carefully• Try out the free services first, both online and

download their reports• Go wide or go deep, depending on your needs• Run a lot of sensitivity scenarios

Thanks for your attention!

• Contact me: – david@strom.com– Twitter: @dstrom– Web: Strominator.com

• Presentation slides available:– http://slideshare.net/davidstrom