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Smarter Cloud Spending: Proven Insights & Cost Management Strategies

Name: Smarter Cloud Spending: Proven Insights & Cost Management Strategies
Uploaded: 2024-10-11T20:30:04+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin discusses cloud cost-management practices, focusing on how resource over-provisioning—especially storage—drives unnecessary spend. He gives a…

11 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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Mike Austin discusses cloud cost-management practices, focusing on how resource over-provisioning—especially storage—drives unnecessary spend. He gives a numeric example: needing 10 TB of storage but provisioning 2–4× (20–40 TB) to avoid outages, and notes that you pay for provisioned capacity.

When you look at most bills, there's a lot of oversized resources. Another good example there is storage. Because what ends up happening with storage is I might need, say, 10 terabytes of storage, but because I don't want outages, we have peak usage and stuff like that. I'm going to provision two to four times that. So I'm going to pay, you know, I'm going to provision 20 to 40 terabytes of storage, and if I provision it, I pay for it.