{"id":6811,"date":"2022-10-20T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T08:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:52:52","slug":"who-is-the-dietitian-of-your-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/20\/who-is-the-dietitian-of-your-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the dietitian of your cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cloud bill is an issue in many organizations. This is not something new, it comes from more than 5 -7  years ago when cloud adoption started to establish as the standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I use to do the joke when asking the infrastructure teams about &#8220;who is the dietitian of your cloud?&#8221;, &#8220;who defines the menu and exercise of the &#8220;fat kid&#8221;?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cloud Dietician, as a role<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Able to identify the part of the cloud bill with more fat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Able to define plans to get the organization in good shape.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Able to lift the low valuable parts as a surgeon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s a technical role, with ability to jump into financial and contracts space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It takes design and architecture decisions to make the environment to be in &#8220;good shape&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Identify yourself as dietician, and you\u2019ll have a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckbillgroup.com\/blog\/why-cloud-finance-is-broken-and-ineffective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article written by Mike Julian<\/a> points into the common mistakes done when trying to reduce the AWS bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Typical actions you can do on AWS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial steps for saving money is to increase the level of forecasting we can do on the services we are using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Buy Reserved Instances (RIs),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spot Instances,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look at specific savings plans.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sign an Enterprise Discount Plan (EDP)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curious about the trend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I have checked &#8220;AWS cost optimization&#8221; in Google Trends, and this is the result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-31-1024x203.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-31-1024x203.png 1024w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-31-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-31-768x152.png 768w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-31.png 1270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">AWS cost optimization from google trends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visual support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Duckbill Group offers some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckbillgroup.com\/understanding-data-transfer-in-aws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visual content <\/a>that helps a lot on discussions with customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-30-1024x597.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-30-1024x597.png 1024w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-30-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-30-768x448.png 768w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-30.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Duckbill Group, AWS Data Transfer Costs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud bill is an issue in many organizations. 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