Summary: Tracking cloud costs seems like it should be pretty straightforward: you pay X cents per time unit per resource used.<br> But as cloud customers quickly learn, costs can get complicated pretty quickly. It can be hard to predict costs month by month, you may get billing surprises, and organizations can spend more than they need to.<br> Today on the Datanauts starship we’ve beamed aboard <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig" rel="noopener">Corey Quinn</a>, a cloud economist and consultant who helps customers understand their AWS bills and how to manage their spending. He’s the founder of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.quinnadvisory.com/" rel="noopener">Quinn Advisory Group</a>, and also writes a free newsletter called <a target="_blank" href="https://lastweekinaws.com/" rel="noopener">Last Week In AWS</a>.<br> We start the conversation by drilling into how AWS bills for its services, and then talk about how costs and billing tie back to business decisions. You have to understand why you’re moving into the cloud, and how you’re factoring your applications, to really understand what you’ll be spending.<br> We also explore reasons why bills grow unexpectedly, learn how to set alerts to catch overages, and discuss why the lowest bid for your cloud business shouldn’t be your primary decision point.<br> While our conversation focuses mostly on AWS, it applies to any public cloud offering.<br> Sponsor: ITProTV<br> ITProTV brings you the most current IT training with over 2,000 hours of content and more than 125 hours added weekly. ITProTV is the resource to keep you and your IT team’s skills up to date. Visit <a target="_blank" href="http://itpro.tv/datanauts%E2%80%8B" rel="noopener">itpro.tv/datanauts</a> and use code DATANAUTS30 to get a FREE 7-day trial and 30% off a monthly membership for the lifetime of your active subscription.<br> Sponsor: LiveAction<br> Join <a target="_blank" href="http://www.liveaction.com/" rel="noopener">LiveAction</a> and Ethan Banks for a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.liveaction.com/go/WAN" rel="noopener">live Webinar on Thursday, October 26th</a> to learn how to reduce the complexity of SD-WAN technology adoption, provide service assurance governance with proactive insights, and deliver the promised performance enhancement for a better application experience.<br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.liveaction.com/go/WAN" rel="noopener">Register here today</a> and mark your calendar to join us on October 26th at 2:00 pm Eastern.<br> Show Links:<br> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.quinnadvisory.com/" rel="noopener">Quinn Advisory Group</a><br> <a target="_blank" href="https://lastweekinaws.com/" rel="noopener">Last Week In AWS</a><br> <a target="_blank" href="https://hackernoon.com/dealing-with-an-aws-billing-surprise-beware-the-defaults-d8a95f6635a2" rel="noopener">Dealing with a nasty AWS Billing Surprise: Beware the defaults.</a> – HackerNoon<br> <br> <br> <a target="_blank" href="https://wptavern.com/ryan-hellyers-aws-nightmare-leaked-access-keys-result-in-a-6000-bill-overnight" rel="noopener">Ryan Hellyer’s AWS Nightmare: Leaked Access Keys Result in a $6,000 Bill Overnight</a> – WP Tavern<br> <br> <br>
