Infrastructure Cost Optimization Review

Quarterly analysis of cloud infrastructure costs, resource utilization, and optimization opportunities across all engineering teams and services. Focuses on cost trends, resource efficiency, and identifying areas for potential savings.

Report Objective

Track and analyze cloud infrastructure costs and resource utilization across all engineering teams and services, identifying optimization opportunities and cost anomalies to maintain efficient cloud spending while supporting business growth.

Cost Trends and Service Distribution

Analysis of overall cloud spending trends and distribution across services.

Questions to Consider:

Nov 2024 Dec 2024 Jan 2025 date $44,000 $46,000 $48,000 $50,000 $52,000 sum(total_cost) How are total infrastructure costs trending over time? Daily infrastructure costs showing overall spending patterns
  • What is the quarter-over-quarter change in total costs?

  • Are there any recurring patterns in cost fluctuations?

  • How do costs align with budget expectations?

  • Which services account for the highest costs?

  • How do costs vary across engineering teams?

  • Are there opportunities for service consolidation?

Compute Storage Database Networking service_name $0 $200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 $1,000,000 $1,200,000 sum(total_cost) How are costs distributed across services and teams? Cost distribution showing highest spending areas

Resource Utilization Efficiency

Overview of resource utilization metrics and identification of optimization opportunities.

Questions to Consider:

Nov 2024 Dec 2024 Jan 2025 date 5500.0% 6000.0% 6500.0% 7000.0% 7500.0% cpu_utilization What are the CPU utilization patterns? Daily CPU utilization trends across resources
  • Are there periods of consistent under-utilization?

  • How does utilization vary throughout the quarter?

  • What is the average CPU utilization?

  • Is resource allocation properly balanced?

  • Are there instances of resource mismatch?

  • What is the typical relationship between CPU and memory usage?

5500.0% 6000.0% 6500.0% 7000.0% 7500.0% cpu_utilization 7000.0% 7500.0% memory_utilization How does memory utilization compare to CPU? Correlation between CPU and memory utilization

Cost Anomalies and Impact

Analysis of detected cost anomalies and their financial impact.

Questions to Consider:

Compute Storage Database Networking service_affected $0 $20,000 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000 $120,000 sum(impact_amount) What cost anomalies were detected this quarter? Impact and distribution of cost anomalies
  • Which services experienced the most significant cost anomalies?

  • What was the total financial impact of anomalies?

  • Are there patterns in the timing or nature of anomalies?