Building Monetary Confidence in the Cloud
summary
Teams moving VMs to Kubernetes report real results: a homemade containerization calculator models spend and forecasts savings, a misprovisioned DB once costs $75,000 a month instead of $300, and consolidation and tagging cut some workloads by ~35%, with past programs saving millions and reinvestment used for new features. Tooling like Harness Cloud Cost Management plus shutdown schedules, tighter tagging and chargeback governance produce measurable, ongoing cost controls.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Cloud cost panel intro
- 1:46Cloud cost roles
- 4:13Why monetary confidence matters
- 8:50Overprovisioning challenges
- 15:31Cultural change for cost ownership
- 19:00Cloud cost management tenets
- 23:56Tools, process, accountability
- 28:09Change management pitfalls
- 33:24Getting started tips
- 38:13Closing thoughts
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