Your provider’s tools are inadequate for managing your cloud bill. Exporting your consumption detail is an essential foundation for cost management.
In this article we show how to establish this on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We’ll configure a billing account to export to Google’s BigQuery and then make it useful for queries - both for monitoring processes and reporting - building on the cost-center labeling1 we’ve established.
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Once you’ve defined cost-centers1 for your organization, and created a labeling strategy2, it is time to apply labels so that you can manage your spend.
Your first priority should be to label projects with a cost-center. Resources inside those projects will inherit the project label for cost allocation.
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You’re probably paying for unused and forgotten cloud resources.
These pesky resources linger without purpose. They hide under the radar, contributing to wasteful spend.
Let’s find and delete these abandoned resources.
What Are Abandoned Resources Also referred to as orphaned, abandoned resources became unused but were not de-provisioned.
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Labeling cloud resources allows you to group costs and create a manageable, business-relevant break-down of your expenses.
In this article we look at a strategy for applying labels consistently across your environment for support of cost management practices.
We look at how labels are used to support billing break-down, and an example labeling standard you may build on for your organization.
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Your cloud bill needs to be broken down in a way that is meaningful to your organization.
This article talks about what a meaningful cost break-down looks like, why it is important, and how to define this for your organization using the concept of Cost Centers.
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For any service you wish to build there are dozens of ways to design it. Each design will have its own strengths, limitations, and cost considerations.
In this article we will compare cost of three designs for a simple static file hosting service.
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The biggest factor in cloud infrastructure costs is not your choice of cloud provider, what region you select, how many users your service supports, or how much data it processes.
The single biggest factor is how effectively your solutions are engineered to make efficient use of the cloud platform.
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According to the 2020 State of the Cloud report1, 73% of companies using cloud infrastructure have identified “Optimize existing use of cloud (cost savings)” as a top initiative for 2020. This has been a top reported priority for the fourth year in a row.
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