Spend on cloud is increasing, but getting cloud costs allocated to the right business units can still be challenging, especially when you are using multiple clouds. You need automated tools that enable you to allocate costs from your cloud bill and report on spend to users across your organization.

1. HOW TO ALLOCATE AND REPORT
CLOUD COSTS WITH
RIGHTSCALE OPTIMA

2. • Ryan O’Leary
• VP Product, RIghtScale
Presenters

3. Public Cloud Spend is Growing Quickly

4. Cloud Waste Is Significant

5. Optimizing Costs Is Top 2018 Initiative
Self-Estimated
Wasted Spend
Additional
Wasted Spend Measured
by RightScale

6. Two Solutions from RightScale
RightScale
Cloud Management Platform
Orchestrate, automate and govern workloads
across all your environments.
VIRTUAL
SERVERS
PUBLIC
CLOUDS
ANY CLOUD
SERVICE
PRIVATE
CLOUDS
BARE METAL
SERVERS
CONTAINER
CLUSTERS
RightScale
Optima
Work collaboratively across the organization
to manage and optimize clouds costs.
Orchestration
Cloud Workflow
Plugins
Monitoring
Access Control
Accounts/Groups
Access/Permissions
Tags
Policies
Cost
Security/Compliance
Operational
RIGHTSCALE
CMP ENGINE
EXTENSIBLE ORCHESTRATION API

7. ALLOCATING AND REPORTING COSTS IN
THE CLOUD

8. • With great power comes great responsibility
• Allocating costs to the responsible teams
• You can’t change what you can’t see
• Customizing reports to provide actionable insights
Agenda
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9. Enables teams to solve problems in the best possible way
Removes overhead/delay
Leads to teams taking ownership of cost controls
They can’t do it alone - they need sufficient tools
Empowered teams
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10. POLLS

11. 1. Combine data from multiple clouds/services
2. Allocate costs from shared accounts
3. Break costs down in a way that matches the team structure
• Reporting
• Access control
4. Provide data in a timely fashion
5. Accuracy, including incorporating discounts/refunds
Cost allocation tool requirements
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12. DEMO

13. Track spend to a budget
Correlate applications/individuals to spend
Inspect costs to identify outliers/anomalies
Provide insightful information to team members
Leverage discount mechanisms as much as possible
Managing team spend
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14. 1. Provide detailed spend information
• Including any tags in use by the teams
• Account for cloud provider differences in granularity
2. Ability to analyze spend in an ad-hoc fashion
3. Configurable reports that can be shared with others
4. All data must be available in a timely fashion with high
accuracy
Cost reporting requirements
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15. DEMO

16. Contact sales@rightscale.com for more info
Q&A
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