Controlling cloud costs with analytics
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This document summarizes a presentation about controlling cloud costs with analytics. It discusses how cloud computing is changing IT spending and outlines the speaker's experience founding PlanForCloud. It then explains different cloud computing models and purchasing options. Finally, it describes how RightScale's Cloud Analytics product helps users visualize, forecast, and optimize their cloud spending.
Controlling cloud costs with analytics
- 1. Controlling cloud costs with analytics ® Ali Khajeh-Hosseini @AliKhajeh Nov 2013, Bristol University ®
- 2. I’m here to talk about How cloud computing… is changing IT spending
- 3. Jan 2009: Started PhD in St Andrews May ‘10: PlanForCloud v.1 ready Dec ‘11: Hassan quit his job and joined Feb ‘12: Launched PlanForCloud (v.2) May ‘12: Mountain View for YC interview 5min demo video filmed in my flat with poor lighting and a £10 poster
- 4. Jul ‘12: Acquired by RightScale Nov ‘13: Launched Cloud Analytics (v.3)
- 5. What the heck is… a cloud?
- 6. Server
- 7. Rack
- 8. Container
- 12. a cloud
- 13. Around 60 Staff 30 Megawatts = Perth (Scotland)! 140 Containers 2 = 4 ftbl pitches 38,500 m 360,000 Servers 500,000,000 Dollars h#p://www.microso/.com/Presspass/emea/presscentre/pressreleases/February2012/23-‐02DublinDataCentre.mspx
- 14. Cloud Computing Focus of my talk Software-as-a-Service Platform-as-a-Service Infrastructure-as-a-Service
- 15. Why do companies care? Cloud computing has many benefits - Elasticity - Pay-per-use pricing ...
- 16. Animoto’s crazy scale-out Scale-out from 50 to 4,000 servers in 3 days h#p://blog.rightscale.com/2008/04/23/animoto-‐facebook-‐scale-‐up/
- 17. Capacity planning Images taken from h#p://aws.amazon.com/economics/
- 18. Zynga’s Z-Cloud Launch new games on public clouds Move to private cloud when usage patterns are understood h#p://www.rightscale.com/customers/zynga-‐grows-‐to-‐1-‐social-‐gaming-‐site-‐with-‐rightscale.php h#p://code.zynga.com/2012/02/the-‐evoluKon-‐of-‐zcloud/
- 19. There are different purchase options - On-Demand: fixed rate - Reserved: pay upfront, lower rate - Spot: Bid how much you would pay - Discounts and consolidated bills
- 20. AWS Reserved Instances up-front procurement to pay-per-use You have to specify: term (1/3 yr), utilization, availability zone, instance type and OS when buying a RI Image taken from h#p://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/12/reserved-‐instance-‐opKons-‐for-‐amazon-‐ec2.html
- 21. AWS Reserved Instances Marketplace Buy and sell reservations
- 22. AWS Spot Prices Bid for an instance, it’ll get switched on if bid >= spot price. You pay spot price, AWS sets it. h#p://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~ladypine/spotprice-‐slides-‐postmortem.pdf
- 23. Prices change (feels like there’s a price war between providers)
- 24. Example: a MySQL Database AWS Relation Database Service (RDS) - Up-front reservation fee (optional) - CPU: $X/hour (based on instance type and cloud) - Storage: $X/GB/month - Transactions: $X/Millions of I/O ops - Provisioned IOPS: $X/IOPS/month (has other limitations) - Redundancy: double the CPU hourly rate - Data transfer: $X/GB (tiered across cloud)
- 25. What the heck? I just wanted a simple database
- 26. It’s starting to get interesting 1. Many clouds worldwide 2. Many pricing models 3. Markets for computing 4. RightScale helps move between clouds Cost optimisation
- 27. The challenge Cloud spending is growing rapidly Cloud pricing is complicated… we scrape over 12,000 prices. Need to visualize, forecast and optimize cloud spend h#p://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2352816
- 28. Cloud Analytics helps users make decisions Cloud Management helps users take actions
- 29. Who buys our products? Big-ass enterprises… like Sony, Samsung, EA Games, Pearson Publishing, PBS, Zynga…
- 30. 1. Connect to a cloud 2. We regularly collect data
- 31. 3. Slice and dice the data
- 32. 4. See historic trends
- 33. 5. Forecast future costs based on patterns
- 34. Other considerations Availability and disaster recovery Performance vs. cost trade-off Security and compliance Socio-technical factors …
- 36. Startups
- 37. are
- 38. fun
- 40. Startups
- 41. are
- 42. based
- 43. in
- 44. awesome
- 45. places
- 47. Startups
- 48. provide
- 49. challenges
- 50. - Design a new reporting section of the product; designers own the frontend code and we don’t use any frameworks like Bootstrap. - Update our AngularJS-based frontend to let users design their own custom dashboards. - Optimize our DataStore API to respond to within 5 seconds (Ruby, NewSQL backend). - Decipher AWS’ billing algorithms to make our cost estimation engine more accurate. - Develop a testing framework to verify data that’s gathered from major public and private clouds worldwide including AWS, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, and OpenStack. - Develop tools to start/stop our staging environment on AWS within a few minutes, find a replacement for Jenkins, and change our weekly releases to daily releases.
- 51. Startups
- 52. love
- 53. good
- 54. food
- 55. (lunch
- 57. learn)
- 59. Do you have an internship/job for me? PlanForCloud.com/jobs