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Well the truth is, almost no organisations ever consider cost before they get started. That's one of the purposes of "cloud credits" that AWS/GCP/etc give out
by calpaterson 6y ago
Well the truth is, almost no organisations ever consider cost before they get started. That's one of the purposes of "cloud credits" that AWS/GCP/etc give out to new companies and projects that they are very successful in that.
Even worse, organisations rarely do it even once they're up and running and spending large sums - and even then I have never seen the impetus for cost control ever come from within the technology department. It's finance that reins in the spending later, and usually by sticking with the same cloud supplier but limiting activity - so now you need to get someone to sign off on your infrastructure before you provision any of it - which is largely the problem the cloud was supposed to solve.
- jnwatson 6y agoYou could say that cloud companies exploit company dysfunction. That engineering is usually not incentivized (until too late) to keep costs down is the key to this whole mess. I've seen the pendulum swing the other way, too. At former large employers, I've had to cobble together (shadow IT) servers from discarded equipment because the process of getting cloud boxes allocated was so onerous.
- calpaterson 6y ago> You could say that cloud companies exploit company dysfunction. Like every large software vendor, yes, it's moderately profitable to produce good software and sell it but it is much, much more profitable to abuse bad procurement practice. Shadow IT is a sad state of affairs but at least it builds the skills and culture to economise on computing cost.