Cloud Costs Optimization
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Cloud Costs Optimization

Practical case studies, experience reports and tooling use cases from startups and enterprises

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The evolution of the cloud in the last decade has radically simplified infrastructure deployment. Undoubtedly, major providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud have removed entry barriers for developers to either launch a new product or to scale infinitely. However, no software company can keep scaling without taking a look at the cost of infrastructure as a percentage of its revenue.

Many companies today are struggling with cloud costs eating up a significant portion of their gross margins. In this conference, we will discuss the tools, techniques and best practices for monitoring and controlling cloud costs.

Key takeaways for participants

  1. Best practices for monitoring and auditing cloud costs.
  2. Techniques and design choices for controlling cloud costs.
  3. Case studies and experience reports.

Who should participate

  1. CTOs and VP engineering of startups in the growth phase, who are expecting their cloud costs to go up in the near future; interested in case studies and tools.
  2. Engineering Manager of a large organization who is interested in controlling the costs for their division; interested in case studies and tools.
  3. Senior engineers who are interested to know about architectural choices and how they affect the cloud costs.

Speaking

If you are interested in speaking at the conference, submit your talk idea here. The editors - Anand C and Raghdip Panesar - will review your talk description and give feedback.
Guidelines for speaking, speaker honorarium policy, and travel grant policy details are published here.

About the editors

This conference is curated by Anand Chitipothu and Raghdip Singh Panesar.
Anand has been building software, managing servers and infrastructure for over two decades. He has curated the Scaling from First Principles series of discussions with Rootconf.
Raghdip is Staff Engineer - Network at Google. Prior to joining Google Raghdip spent nine years at Flipkart as network architect and senior staff engineer.

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This is a community-funded conference. It will be held in-person. Attendance is open to Rootconf members only. Support the conference with a membership to join. If you have questions about participation, post a comment here.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship slots are open for:

  1. Cloud providers who want to evangelise their efforts on optimizing the costs of cloud, and showcase customer success stories.
  2. Tool providers.
  3. Companies seeking tech branding for hiring.
    Email sponsorship queries to sales@hasgeek.com

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Rolland

@rolland

Everybody loves cloud cost savings - experiences from the trenches at rubrik

Submitted Jun 30, 2023

CTO: “Reduce cloud costs now !”
Me: “How much ? When ? What about my OKRs ?”

Sound familiar ? If you nodded & smiled, you are yet another tech leader / senior engineer juggling yet another business goal. Being cost-effective while serving a growing business is hard, and raises multiple questions - especially if you are a platform used by multiple functional teams:
“What do I optimize ? Whom do I make unhappy ? How much time do I spend on cost optimization ?”

Live almost everything else, cost questions too can be addressed via focus on usage & ROI - supported by a mix of tools, analyses, process changes and some code fixes too !

In this brief-ish talk, we’ll look at how these challenges were addressed against our data services & platform:

  • by a team of 5 engineers, over a short period of 3 months
  • and achieved 30% immediate & sustainable cost savings

(PS: lets’ not forget the lessons learnt - what worked ? what didn’t ?)

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Hosted by

Rootconf is a community-funded platform for activities and discussions on the following topics: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Infrastructure costs, including Cloud Costs - and optimization. Security - including Cloud Security. more

Supported by

Sponsor

Businesses are more digital today than ever before. They need to build, deploy and run real-time services in order to stay ahead of the curve. The notion of real-time is not just a nice-to-have anymore. It’s an expectation. It is what sets a merely good user experience apart from a great one. A rea… more

Sponsor

Delivering the expert solutions for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, TiDB, and other distributed databases. Carving the real performance with the existing infrastructure and tuning the prodcution systems which leads to right instance sizing and enhanced performance in the production environment. DB solu… more

Partner

FOSS United is a non-profit foundation that aims at promoting and strengthening the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem in India. more