knowledge shared from working in the cloud
Introduction At my day job, we first started using public cloud back in 2015, and at the time we were really just starting to crawl with cloud financials. Our finance department was not a fan of chargeback and as a result we ended up partnering with a third party reseller to help us with…
Introduction One constant topic that comes up whenever discussing cloud costs with my counterparts in Finance is the notion of forecasting. Finance people love to forecast and it’s a big part of their job. However, forecasting AWS spend is notoriously difficult for several reasons: The fact that cloud costs are consumption based and thus highly…
Introduction In my first post on the CUDOS solution, I showed you how you can implement implement SSO access to CUDOS using AWS Single Sign-on service. Leveraging this capability you can enable users to sign in to QuickSight using their corporate credentials and avoid having to give them full access to the AWS console. Now…
Part 1 – Deployment and SSO Integration At my day job I recently led a project to move away from CloudHealth for cost reporting and implement some new tools to replace the functionality of CloudHealth. CloudHealth is a great tool but my company no longer wanted to pay a percentage of our spend just to…