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Cloud Total Cost of Ownership
Bring financial accountability to the total cost of running cloud and AI
The Whole Cloud Cost Story
Cloud costs don’t end with your monthly AWS, Azure, and GCP bills. Monthly invoices only represent a part of the cloud cost story.
To measure cloud program TCO, cloud leaders need to bring direct, indirect, and shared cloud costs together, then allocate them back to the business by team, product, or application. This establishes financial accountability and a fully-burdened unit cost measurement, one that shows whether rising cloud costs reflect accelerating innovation and profitability or inefficiencies that need to be addressed.
Typical customer outcomes with IBM Cloudability
reduction in cloud unit costs
allocation of multi-cloud program costs
commitment coverage
Common Cloud Total Cost of Ownership Challenges:
- Understanding what contributes to the total cost of cloud-based applications and services
- Determining fully loaded unit costs for an app or product
- Allocating direct and shared cloud costs back to teams
Calculating which cloud apps and AI initiatives are returning the most value
Cloud Total Cost of Ownership Solutions Help You
IBM Cloudability TotalCost: Capture & Allocate Total Cloud Program Spend
Cloud costs don’t end at your monthly AWS, Azure, and GCP bills. Get visibility into everything that contributes to your total cloud program spend, including:
- Observability solutions that help ensure operational and security integrity across a fleet of VMs
- Specialized cloud technologies, including CDNs and serverless data warehouses
- Labor and additional vendors like IBM and Oracle
Typical Customer Outcomes
Allocation of cloud program costs
Reduction in unit costs
Develop unit economics to measure profitability
Mapping AWS, Azure, and GCP Services to a Standard Taxonomy
With significant investment in public cloud solutions, you need a better way to compare cloud costs and improve your ROI. However, cloud costs are complex and variable; it is challenging to classify costs and produce actionable technology cost analytics. Enter FinOps!
Download the Cloud ATUM poster to learn FinOps best practices.
- 92% allocation of cloud costs within 3 months of implementation
- Improved cost transparency and financial accountability