Understanding the cost drivers and monitoring the relative consumption metrics is vitally important to avoid Cloud cost creep. The benefits, of effectively doing so are - reduced costs, improved understand of Cloud Workload TCO and reliable forecasting.

Our team observed a disconnect between the rate of increase of Cloud Storage costs vis-à-vis rate of increase of Back-Up Vault costs. This indicated to us that Unit Back-up was getting more expensive.<o:p></o:p>

Please find attached a case study on how we investigated for the underlying drivers and adjusted them to meet business requirements in a cost-optimised manner. In addition, the presentation includes our realised benefits and key learnings.

This big collaborative success was performed in equal measure by the following teams:

• Cloud Operations (Kris Whitford, @Jason Chan@Chris Hinds, Brenton Taylor) 
• Data & Analytics (Venkata Maroju, Rahul Raj)
• Finance (@Amanda Tang , @Milena Marcetic  
• TBM Practice (@Quentin Kynoch @Michael Shamsiev@Carolina Galea@Michael Shamsiev@Francis Moussally

Yours truly remains thankful to each of them and feels fortunate to be a part of this achievement and learning.

I eagerly look forward to the feedback from this valuable community.

@Debbie Hagen @Guillermo Cuadrado @Mark Salib @Mark Johnson @Michael Worrow @John Feore @Christie Linanto @Poonam Kataria @Jaison Joy @Jenny Goodwin @Jenny Franklin @Julie Batty @Tim Pietro @Justin Kean @Matt Temple @Jason Gorringe @Tom Whitehead @Pierre Talevski @Luke Waring @Sadie Wu @Dru Robinson @Minoo Laghaei @Sreekala Kannan @Trish Anderson @Clare Smit @Menno Wittebol  @Eileen Wade @Jasmine Ellsworth @Mai Tang @Trilok Chandrashekar @Denise Chen @Prajwal CP @Bharti Prajapati @Chris Davidson @Shankar Kailasanathan

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JJ Sharma
Sr. TBM Practice Manager
KPMG Australia
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@Jaison Joy @Alisha Dash @John Adipietro @Connor Kinkead @Fred Salatino @Sabeeha Kutty @Ed Hayman @Greg Winfield @Maria Socorro Nalo @Tony Wong @Lauren Pagan @Kalpana Das 

@Jaison Joy @Alisha Dash @John Adipietro @Connor Kinkead @Fred Salatino @Sabeeha Kutty @Ed Hayman @Greg Winfield @Maria Socorro Nalo @Tony Wong @Lauren Pagan @Kalpana Das 

Understanding the cost drivers and monitoring the relative consumption metrics is vitally important to avoid Cloud cost creep. The benefits, of effectively doing so are - reduced costs, improved understand of Cloud Workload TCO and reliable forecasting.

Our team observed a disconnect between the rate of increase of Cloud Storage costs vis-à-vis rate of increase of Back-Up Vault costs. This indicated to us that Unit Back-up was getting more expensive.<o:p></o:p>

Please find attached a case study on how we investigated for the underlying drivers and adjusted them to meet business requirements in a cost-optimised manner. In addition, the presentation includes our realised benefits and key learnings.

This big collaborative success was performed in equal measure by the following teams:

• Cloud Operations (Kris Whitford, @Jason Chan@Chris Hinds, Brenton Taylor) 
• Data & Analytics (Venkata Maroju, Rahul Raj)
• Finance (@Amanda Tang , @Milena Marcetic  
• TBM Practice (@Quentin Kynoch @Michael Shamsiev@Carolina Galea@Michael Shamsiev@Francis Moussally

Yours truly remains thankful to each of them and feels fortunate to be a part of this achievement and learning.

I eagerly look forward to the feedback from this valuable community.

@Debbie Hagen @Guillermo Cuadrado @Mark Salib @Mark Johnson @Michael Worrow @John Feore @Christie Linanto @Poonam Kataria @Jaison Joy @Jenny Goodwin @Jenny Franklin @Julie Batty @Tim Pietro @Justin Kean @Matt Temple @Jason Gorringe @Tom Whitehead @Pierre Talevski @Luke Waring @Sadie Wu @Dru Robinson @Minoo Laghaei @Sreekala Kannan @Trish Anderson @Clare Smit @Menno Wittebol  @Eileen Wade @Jasmine Ellsworth @Mai Tang @Trilok Chandrashekar @Denise Chen @Prajwal CP @Bharti Prajapati @Chris Davidson @Shankar Kailasanathan

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JJ Sharma
Sr. TBM Practice Manager
KPMG Australia
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Understanding the cost drivers and monitoring the relative consumption metrics is vitally important to avoid Cloud cost creep. The benefits, of effectively doing so are - reduced costs, improved understand of Cloud Workload TCO and reliable forecasting.

Our team observed a disconnect between the rate of increase of Cloud Storage costs vis-à-vis rate of increase of Back-Up Vault costs. This indicated to us that Unit Back-up was getting more expensive.<o:p></o:p>

Please find attached a case study on how we investigated for the underlying drivers and adjusted them to meet business requirements in a cost-optimised manner. In addition, the presentation includes our realised benefits and key learnings.

This big collaborative success was performed in equal measure by the following teams:

• Cloud Operations (Kris Whitford, @Jason Chan@Chris Hinds, Brenton Taylor) 
• Data & Analytics (Venkata Maroju, Rahul Raj)
• Finance (@Amanda Tang , @Milena Marcetic  
• TBM Practice (@Quentin Kynoch @Michael Shamsiev@Carolina Galea@Michael Shamsiev@Francis Moussally

Yours truly remains thankful to each of them and feels fortunate to be a part of this achievement and learning.

I eagerly look forward to the feedback from this valuable community.

@Debbie Hagen @Guillermo Cuadrado @Mark Salib @Mark Johnson @Michael Worrow @John Feore @Christie Linanto @Poonam Kataria @Jaison Joy @Jenny Goodwin @Jenny Franklin @Julie Batty @Tim Pietro @Justin Kean @Matt Temple @Jason Gorringe @Tom Whitehead @Pierre Talevski @Luke Waring @Sadie Wu @Dru Robinson @Minoo Laghaei @Sreekala Kannan @Trish Anderson @Clare Smit @Menno Wittebol  @Eileen Wade @Jasmine Ellsworth @Mai Tang @Trilok Chandrashekar @Denise Chen @Prajwal CP @Bharti Prajapati @Chris Davidson @Shankar Kailasanathan

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JJ Sharma
Sr. TBM Practice Manager
KPMG Australia
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Understanding the cost drivers and monitoring the relative consumption metrics is vitally important to avoid Cloud cost creep. The benefits, of effectively doing so are - reduced costs, improved understand of Cloud Workload TCO and reliable forecasting.

Our team observed a disconnect between the rate of increase of Cloud Storage costs vis-à-vis rate of increase of Back-Up Vault costs. This indicated to us that Unit Back-up was getting more expensive.<o:p></o:p>

Please find attached a case study on how we investigated for the underlying drivers and adjusted them to meet business requirements in a cost-optimised manner. In addition, the presentation includes our realised benefits and key learnings.

This big collaborative success was performed in equal measure by the following teams:

• Cloud Operations (Kris Whitford, @Jason Chan@Chris Hinds, Brenton Taylor) 
• Data & Analytics (Venkata Maroju, Rahul Raj)
• Finance (@Amanda Tang , @Milena Marcetic  
• TBM Practice (@Quentin Kynoch @Michael Shamsiev@Carolina Galea@Michael Shamsiev@Francis Moussally

Yours truly remains thankful to each of them and feels fortunate to be a part of this achievement and learning.

I eagerly look forward to the feedback from this valuable community.

@Debbie Hagen @Guillermo Cuadrado @Mark Salib @Mark Johnson @Michael Worrow @John Feore @Christie Linanto @Poonam Kataria @Jaison Joy @Jenny Goodwin @Jenny Franklin @Julie Batty @Tim Pietro @Justin Kean @Matt Temple @Jason Gorringe @Tom Whitehead @Pierre Talevski @Luke Waring @Sadie Wu @Dru Robinson @Minoo Laghaei @Sreekala Kannan @Trish Anderson @Clare Smit @Menno Wittebol  @Eileen Wade @Jasmine Ellsworth @Mai Tang @Trilok Chandrashekar @Denise Chen @Prajwal CP @Bharti Prajapati @Chris Davidson @Shankar Kailasanathan

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JJ Sharma
Sr. TBM Practice Manager
KPMG Australia
------------------------------

Understanding the cost drivers and monitoring the relative consumption metrics is vitally important to avoid Cloud cost creep. The benefits, of effectively doing so are - reduced costs, improved understand of Cloud Workload TCO and reliable forecasting.

Our team observed a disconnect between the rate of increase of Cloud Storage costs vis-à-vis rate of increase of Back-Up Vault costs. This indicated to us that Unit Back-up was getting more expensive.<o:p></o:p>

Please find attached a case study on how we investigated for the underlying drivers and adjusted them to meet business requirements in a cost-optimised manner. In addition, the presentation includes our realised benefits and key learnings.

This big collaborative success was performed in equal measure by the following teams:

• Cloud Operations (Kris Whitford, @Jason Chan@Chris Hinds, Brenton Taylor) 
• Data & Analytics (Venkata Maroju, Rahul Raj)
• Finance (@Amanda Tang , @Milena Marcetic  
• TBM Practice (@Quentin Kynoch @Michael Shamsiev@Carolina Galea@Michael Shamsiev@Francis Moussally

Yours truly remains thankful to each of them and feels fortunate to be a part of this achievement and learning.

I eagerly look forward to the feedback from this valuable community.

@Debbie Hagen @Guillermo Cuadrado @Mark Salib @Mark Johnson @Michael Worrow @John Feore @Christie Linanto @Poonam Kataria @Jaison Joy @Jenny Goodwin @Jenny Franklin @Julie Batty @Tim Pietro @Justin Kean @Matt Temple @Jason Gorringe @Tom Whitehead @Pierre Talevski @Luke Waring @Sadie Wu @Dru Robinson @Minoo Laghaei @Sreekala Kannan @Trish Anderson @Clare Smit @Menno Wittebol  @Eileen Wade @Jasmine Ellsworth @Mai Tang @Trilok Chandrashekar @Denise Chen @Prajwal CP @Bharti Prajapati @Chris Davidson @Shankar Kailasanathan

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JJ Sharma
Sr. TBM Practice Manager
KPMG Australia
------------------------------

Understanding the cost drivers and monitoring the relative consumption metrics is vitally important to avoid Cloud cost creep. The benefits, of effectively doing so are - reduced costs, improved understand of Cloud Workload TCO and reliable forecasting.

Our team observed a disconnect between the rate of increase of Cloud Storage costs vis-à-vis rate of increase of Back-Up Vault costs. This indicated to us that Unit Back-up was getting more expensive.<o:p></o:p>

Please find attached a case study on how we investigated for the underlying drivers and adjusted them to meet business requirements in a cost-optimised manner. In addition, the presentation includes our realised benefits and key learnings.

This big collaborative success was performed in equal measure by the following teams:

• Cloud Operations (Kris Whitford, @Jason Chan@Chris Hinds, Brenton Taylor) 
• Data & Analytics (Venkata Maroju, Rahul Raj)
• Finance (@Amanda Tang , @Milena Marcetic  
• TBM Practice (@Quentin Kynoch @Michael Shamsiev@Carolina Galea@Michael Shamsiev@Francis Moussally

Yours truly remains thankful to each of them and feels fortunate to be a part of this achievement and learning.

I eagerly look forward to the feedback from this valuable community.

@Debbie Hagen @Guillermo Cuadrado @Mark Salib @Mark Johnson @Michael Worrow @John Feore @Christie Linanto @Poonam Kataria @Jaison Joy @Jenny Goodwin @Jenny Franklin @Julie Batty @Tim Pietro @Justin Kean @Matt Temple @Jason Gorringe @Tom Whitehead @Pierre Talevski @Luke Waring @Sadie Wu @Dru Robinson @Minoo Laghaei @Sreekala Kannan @Trish Anderson @Clare Smit @Menno Wittebol  @Eileen Wade @Jasmine Ellsworth @Mai Tang @Trilok Chandrashekar @Denise Chen @Prajwal CP @Bharti Prajapati @Chris Davidson @Shankar Kailasanathan

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JJ Sharma
Sr. TBM Practice Manager
KPMG Australia
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