Metrics that matter: Navigate financial uncertainty w/actionable KPIs
summary
Practical KPIs, concrete targets and tools drive decisions: track 70% coverage for commitment discounts (raise to 80–85% in downturns), push reservation utilization toward 90–95%, and automate recommendations from observability and Apptio Cloudability so engineers act in minutes not weeks. Watch for single-day spikes ($25–30k) with anomaly detection, fix tagging to enable show‑back/charge‑back, and measure unit cost (billing‑lines processed; Apptio shows volume doubling while cost per line falls ~75%) to prove value.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:01Adapting to a high-inflation environment
- 2:32Unique opportunity of cloud cost
- 9:11Public cloud cost efficiency and optimization
- 12:31Metric-driven cost optimization (MDCO)
- 16:16Efficiency and optimization: Cigna KPIs
- 23:17Cloud program TCO: Cigna ecosystem
- 25:46Cigna financial integration: Cost allocation
- 30:35Unit cost
- 34:08Unit economics: Cigna application
- 37:49Metric 3: Developing to unit economics
- 42:23Example: Maturing unit economics
- 43:49Key resources
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