The elephant in the cloud: Strategies of cloud cost optimisation
summary
Recommends a concrete 3‑6‑9 approach: classify services (self‑hosted, managed, serverless), avoid six pitfalls, apply nine optimizations and governance. Claims 30–70% compute savings from savings plans/reserved instances and right‑sizing; reports a 30 crore MAP saving from migration agreements and private pricing; cites moving EKS upgrades and Graviton migration that cut costs by 2–3 crore and ≈2 crore respectively; shows a Cloud Run case where upgrading Java and enabling virtual threads drops containers from ~35 to 5–8, and NAT→VPC peering saves ~3 crore.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Cloud cost challenges
- 1:52Cloud service types
- 4:23Cloud cost pitfalls
- 9:16Start with cost optimization
- 11:04Discounts and reserved instances
- 14:14Right sizing workloads
- 16:01Dynamic scaling and ARM
- 18:07Networking cost reduction
- 20:59Managed services optimization
- 23:02Storage cost management
- 26:32Optimizing operational resources
- 28:20Cost-conscious culture
- 29:24Continuous cost optimization with PHOPS
- 31:55Cloud spending metrics
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