Cloudability says it pinpoints actual Amazon cloud spend
November 14, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Cloudability says its analytics can cut your overall cloud services cost. Available now for Amazon Web Services, support is coming for other major cloud service providers, A raft of companies have sprung up to help companies get a better grip on their cloud spend.
Cloudability, which helps users ascertain costs of a wide range of cloud-based services, is now making its analytics broadly available for Amazon Web Services with support to come for an array of other cloud services. The Portland, Oregon-based startup says its new analytics provide a picture of actual AWS use and generates reports of actual use, recommending actions to save money…
“We focus on continuous IT improvement — the ability to enable cloud users to put IT where they want it,” company co-founder and CEO Mat Ellis told me in an interview. “As a company, we know who’s wasting money because we track the costs — we take the bills.”
The biggest problem with true cost assessment is finding out what developers and others are actually doing in Amazon. Cloudability’s solution is to push company finance chiefs to deny any spending that happens outside Cloudability’s reporting structure. If you buy X number of EC2 instances and this much S3 storage on your expense account, you won’t be reimbursed for it unless you use Cloudability. (That sounds good in theory but I’d like to see it in practice. Developers are notoriously hard to wrangle.)…
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