toeknee123
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Comment · 4 years ago
Implementing a simple and effective tagging strategy for visibility and monitoring is one of the most important aspect of cloud cost control. From our experience, this is where most of our own users start.
Knowing the "why's" and "where" will help everyone within the org (eng and finance) make better decisions on what and where to focus on (https://www.cloudforecast.io/blog/aws-tagging-best-practices...). Also, it'll make AWS Cost Explorer or any other cost managements tools WAY more effective.
Cost optimization can feel like drinking from a firehouse since there are so many different strategies, and approaches to it (autoscaling, spot, reserved instances/savings plans, eliminating idle & wasted resources, etc.). Also, you have to apply your OWN organizational context to it as well (business and tech side). There is a fine balance companies and eng dept need to take with cloud cost control since it can be a huge time commitment to pull your end dept into.
(disclaimer // founder of https://www.cloudforecast.io)
Comment · 4 years ago
Appreciate the shout out and your assessment is pretty spot on w/ #1 (I am one of the co-founders of CloudForecast).
We're actually huge fans of Infracost and what they've done so far. They've built an amazing tool for eng teams, who should always be the lead when it comes to managing cloud cost. We actually have a few customers using them along side us as well.
Congrats on launch, Ali, Hassan and Alistair!
Comment · 4 years ago
Congrats, Kevin and Pierre on the success. You've all been such an inspiration and model for us in the TinySeed community.
We're a (mostly)bootstrap company, so it's always awesome to hear the "word of mouth" mention of my company. It means we're doing something right :).
Feel free to let me know if I can help in any way or answer any questions anyone might have!