Every Dollar Counts: Shifting Cost Management Left
summary
Argues that cost control improves when organizations shift cost management left, embedding cost signals into build and release pipelines and pull requests so issues are prevented not chased. Describes a tagging policy — tag everything — and tooling: Terraform Cloud cost estimation, CloudFormation template estimator, and Harness cost management integrated into deploy pipelines. Claims engineers’ involvement yields immediate savings versus central optimization and reports tangible gains from the Harness integration.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Cloud cost management intro
- 1:09Data center ops at Tyler Tech
- 4:39Public cloud transition
- 6:03Why shift cost left
- 8:49Prevent spend in ops
- 10:14Cost data for engineers
- 11:40Cost-aware engineering culture
- 13:04Tagging for cost tracking
- 14:09Infrastructure cost tools
- 15:11Harness platform overview
- 16:15Engineering-driven cost control
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