How Unit Costs will change the way you think about your cloud bill
summary
Visibility alone isn't enough — build unit metrics that tie spend to what the service actually does so anomalies are immediately justified or not justified. The demo shows Vantage ingesting cloud and third‑party cost reports and producing a metric like $1.14 per 1000 cost reports so a May jump that looks like a 20% month‑over‑month spike turns out to be higher volume, not inefficiency. Reports map costs to microservices (ingest, enrich, store) so teams get actionable context.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25Overview
- 1:43About Dan
- 2:30Actionable cost reports
- 3:09Justified or not
- 4:21Key performance indicators
- 5:16Vantage
- 6:27Application Architecture
- 9:19Conclusion
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