Apptio Cloudability

CLoudability is used to provide accurate cost reporting of our cloud spend to our stakeholders

I help customers use Apptio Cloudability, I do not personally use it to solve issues that I personally have. The things we do are help customers with organizing their cloud costs so that they can do a showback or chargeback model. Other use cases are to clean up errors in the Cloud billing too, and find opportunities to save money using the cloud through optimization.

We use it to manage all of our savings plans and RIs. We also use it for right-sizing opportunities and we use it to graph those optimization efforts to show the cost going down as optimization changes are happening.

Apptio Cloudability has helped American on the FinOps journey by providing the visibility and spend details that app owners and engineers need to make quality business decisions, such as Architecture, Right Sizing, Performance and future investments.

We are a reseller of AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle and IBM Cloud. We invoice our customers based on their usage as well as sell solutions deployed on those platforms.

We use Apptio Cloudability to actively manage our cloud spend across hundreds of applications. This involves identifying opportunities to reduce or optimize our spend along with holding users actively accountable through a charge back model.

We use it currently to increase visibility and help coordinate costs to help us understand our usages across multiple departments who never had insight into this information. Our costs began to spiral out of control and now we have an understanding of drivers and trends. I was recently able to identify a spike in costs on one resource that we met on as a group and developed a strategy to save a good chunk of money on a monthly basis.

Showback to business units on their spend - all users in the organization have access, being transparent about all costs and who is spending what. Use it to drive accountability and ensure we are getting value from cloud investments.

We use if for overall IT cost management and cloud cost management.

Apptio Cloudability is a cost analysis tool that helps us keep track of what we are using within Azure Cloud. It has helped us keep track of specific costs and breakdown by application owner (with appropriate tagging). This tool also helps us decide future spending requirements.

We use Apptio Cloudability to help with cloud cost and usage visibility to educate our users on our use of public cloud. We make optimization decisions such as commitment purchasing and rightsizing. We also use the platform to help with tag remediation. A big use case for us to help understand our services down to the resource ID level and Apptio Cloudability does a great job of querying the data quickly.

Cloudability is used to analyze consumption and usage of AWS Cloud Services. As we scale our services and customer-base, there was a pressing need to reign in COGS. Cloudability is used to report, identify, and execute on the reduction and optimization of our Cloud Infrastructure across our entire AWS portfolio.

Apptio Cloudability is an excellent tool for tracking costs associated with various apps and cloud services. It recommends the most suitable cloud services for our company's needs. Cloudability gives a true path for improved online resource investment and cost reduction.

We use Cloudability for cost visibility into our cloud spend across various cloud platforms. We create dashboards and reports to provide stakeholders with information about spend related to specific applications or business units. This is also used for anomaly detection to understand when we may be deviating from expected and forecasted spend.

Real-time cost reporting analytics

Cost is one of the critical factors when we migrate our Applications to the Cloud and expand the business. Cloudability helps us provide insights on how we are spending in the Cloud and provides multiple dashboards to help us understand the spending trending over a period of time, by Cloud resources, by Departments, etc. It also provides information on how Reserve instances or Savings plans are utilized in our Org. I like the automated reports that tell me how much I have been spending since last week on the hosting cost, and oftentimes, this helps me realize that you might have an orphaned resource running in the cloud when you should have deleted it. The recommendation in terms of resource utilization and how we can optimize the usage is a great deal. As more and more products are launched and more employees start to operate in the Cloud, it is difficult to control the cost without having a way to tell us - where we are spending the most and how and then providing recommendations. Cloudability provides that for us, and that is a big win when were are talking about $$$.

Apptio Cloudability was helpful as it allowed me to do a cost analysis of cloud spend and generate insights for a client team meeting. It provides flexibility to play around with different criteria thereby helping determining costs based on tags, projects, resources, etc. Also, the visualization was compact, very detailed and extremely informative.

We utilize the features of Apptio Cloudability in a number of different ways: 1) break down the spend for the various accounts/environments/groups on the 3 main providers we utilize (AWS, Azure, GCP); 2) utilize the optimization recommendations to determine efficiencies to reduce our overall spend using different strategies; 3) understand where there areas for improved governance, mainly around tagging. Because we track spending not just for our internal consumption but also for our external customer's site that we host and manage, it is critical that we receive accurate reporting, ensure we are receiving our negotiated rates for each of the providers, and that we can accurately report the consumption for each of our business units' applications. We try, as accurately as possible, to produce total cost of ownership (TCO) reporting for each of the Cloud-hosted applications. Because we can set up reports and segment access based upon accounts/business units, we can deliver specific reports/dashboards to the different business units and to the various personnel who will access them. We've started to review the recommendations from the tool to better understand where there are potential savings on the various platforms. Our focus has been to reduce the usage of higher-cost CPU/storage/network where possible and leverage reserved instances to reduce our Cloud spend. Finally, we use the governance functions to identify and improve our usage of tagging. The delivered reporting allows us to better understand where we can improve tags to better improve our reporting.

We use Apptio Cloudability primarily to aggregate and track ongoing cloud spending for Azure & AWS (and eventually Google Cloud). We also use it to forecast future spending, identify virtual instances that might be good candidates for reservations, notify us of possible spending anomalies, and review detailed spending when needed. We previously used Power BI but it wasn't scalable, updating old tag data was extremely slow, and it didn't easily connect to AWS data (or at least not as easy as it does to Azure data).