(Cloud) Infrastructure Culprits

Cloud Waste

Park Sehun

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Jul 10, 2023

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1. Cloud waste: Cloud waste refers to the unnecessary use of cloud resources, such as computing power, storage, or bandwidth. This can occur when businesses overprovision resources, leave unused resources idle or fail to manage their cloud services properly. Cloud waste can lead to higher than necessary cloud costs and can be a significant problem for businesses that rely on cloud services.
2. Cost creep: Cost creep refers to the gradual increase in cloud costs over time. If you have too granular control on managing the account, you may provision the account per project, then you will see a lot of cost creep and unnecessary duplicated resources afterwards.

Poor Capacity Planning

1. Overprovisioning or underprovisioning resources: Poor capacity planning can lead to overprovisioning or underprovisioning of resources. Overprovisioning can result in paying for unused resources, while underprovisioning can lead to service disruptions and lost revenue.
2. Service disruptions: Poor capacity planning can lead to service disruptions when resources are not provisioned to meet demand. This can result in lost revenue and decreased customer satisfaction.
3. Difficulty in scaling: Poor capacity planning can make it challenging to scale resources up or down as needed. Scalability is not only limited to the resource for a certain service. It needs to be considered for all dependencies and end2end scalability (e.g. Pod…