Cloud Cost Management Updates
summary
Harness announces Continuous Efficiency as a cloud cost product that correlates deployment and autoscaling events to spend, provides service‑level visibility without tags, and surfaces pod‑level recommendations to cut waste. Internal use yields over 40% reduction, customers report ~70% of spend classified as waste before optimization, Relativity realizes $3M annualized, and pilots automate shutdowns to save 60–80%. Features include budget alerts, exploratory reporting, cost views for showback/chargeback, and Project Lightning to group spot and on‑demand instances targeting 30–40% further savings.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30Continuous Efficiency
- 1:03What will we be talking about today?
- 1:40Engineering
- 2:27is key to managing spend
- 3:39Harness - True story
- 4:57How did we address these challenges?
- 6:53Customers
- 7:51Relativity
- 8:29Unique Cloud Cost Visibility
- 9:36Correlate Cloud Events & Cost
- 10:56Cost Recommendations
- 12:24Cloud Cost Budgets & Alerting
- 14:28What's Next?
- 17:21Coming Soon Cost Views
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