Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs
by scapecast on Monday January 24, 2022 @03:31PM
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The underlying issue is that the cloud console is owned by a single product team, and THEY decide what gets exposed - not the underlying product teams for the individual services. At least that's the case for AWS.
The result is that you get a lowest common denominator type of dashboard. And hence a whole industry of providing just a prettier dashboard on top of AWS / GCP / Azure metrics.
Datadog started with a prettier dashboard for Cloudwatch data.
Cloudability started with a prettier dashboard for the Cost and Usage Report.
And also works the other way around. The individual product teams buy development environments to circumvent the console restrictions.
For example, a few years ago, the Redshift team purchased "DataRow".
The result is that you get a lowest common denominator type of dashboard. And hence a whole industry of providing just a prettier dashboard on top of AWS / GCP / Azure metrics.
Datadog started with a prettier dashboard for Cloudwatch data.
Cloudability started with a prettier dashboard for the Cost and Usage Report.
And also works the other way around. The individual product teams buy development environments to circumvent the console restrictions.
For example, a few years ago, the Redshift team purchased "DataRow".