proactive understanding of what occurs during an audit and provide
assurance that the information will be up-to-date and waiting for the
auditors in a consumable package.
Continuous Cost Control
A key aspect of continuous compliance is Continuous Cost Control. As you can
see in Figure 3, this means that we understand the costs around the use of
cloud.
Cloud computing has a big advantage in that we only pay for what we use. We
have the advantage of only paying for computer resources we leverage, and do
not have to purchase hardware and software ahead of need.
Client
However, cost overruns are commonplace when leveraging public clouds and it
is important to understand that there is a difference between “good cloud
spend” and “bad cloud spend.” Good cloud spends includes things like rapid
adoption and use of new cloud services (AWS Lambda, Aurora, etc) that provide
better ROI and decrease time to market. Bad cloud spend includes chatty apps
and wasteful spending (not parking Dev / Test instances when they’re not in
use). Bad cloud spend is most often generated by organizations and teams that
do not understand the best consumption patterns and compliance tools
required for optimizing cloud workloads. When you over-provision cloud
resources or your developers simply forget to shut down their no-longer-needed resources, your cloud bill will be many times higher than it should
be. Continuous Cost Controls helps you quickly determine which cloud spend
is good vs. bad and remediate as necessary.
Client Baseline
Data
Configurable
Modules
CTP & 3rd
Party Tooling
CTP
Assess and Plan
Phase of CAP
• Client Configuration
• TCO / ROI Models
• CTP Tools
Dashboard Reporting
• Alerts
• Continuous Monitoring
Optimization
• Recommendations
• Continuous
Improvements
Cost Reporting
Tools
Figure 3: Continuous Cost Controls - Data Aggregation
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