Cloud Cost Savings

Owned by Trip Gilman, created
Last updated: Dec 16, 2020
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Target release

 

Epic

 

Document status

DRAFT

Document owner

@Trip Gilman

Designer

 

Tech lead

 

Technical writers

 

QA

 

Objective

This is a working document to capture the various initiatives both current and future related to reducing AWS and general operational costs.

Success metrics

Goal

Metric

Goal

Metric

Cut AWS costs by 50%

AWS monthly cost

Reduce or remove Splunk costs

Splunk monthly cost

Assumptions

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Milestones

Jul2018AugSepOctNovDecJan2019FebMarAprMayJunMilestone 1Go/No goMilestone 2
Dashboard
Notification

Feature 1

Feature 2

Feature 3

Feature 4

iOS App

Android

Requirements

Requirement

User Story

Importance

Jira Issue

Notes

Requirement

User Story

Importance

Jira Issue

Notes

1

Use linux wherever possible

HIGH

 

 

2

Consolidate database servers

 

 

 

 

3

Consolidate beanstalk components

 

 

 

 

4

Leverage reserved instance strategies

 

 

 

 

5

Log management and data analytics platform

 

 

 

 

6

Review consolidation of Slack and Goto → Microsoft Teams

 

 

 

 

User interaction and design

Linux Migration

  • Config Server

  • HIS (NOT CIC or UCCE/X)

 

Open Questions

Question

Answer

Date Answered

Question

Answer

Date Answered

What version of Office 365 do we have?

 

What’s our baseline cost for AWS?

 

 

What’s our current cost for Slack?

 

 

What’s our current cost for GotoMeeting?

 

 

Out of Scope

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