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.

Become a Rootconf member to join

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

Contact information

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