Virtasant

  • url: https://www.virtasant.com/
  • trusted advisor leaves a lot to be desired
  • they add recommendation to jira, then help engineers execute
  • charge 25% of savings annualized
  • can pull from cloud APIs, datadog
  • process:
    • engineer accepts as "net new" reduction
    • month later, bill has to have been reduced
  • can do an audit of cloud efficiency (a measure of $ spent for actual workload)
    • can give you ammunition for negotiations
    • available in looker via cross-account access
  • trains engineers to think differently
  • builds efficiencies into terraform
  • PROBABLY, we can re-negotiate our Google commit

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