Apptio Cloudability case studies
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Apptio Cloudability (now IBM Cloudability) is a cloud financial management product rather than a vendor certification with a published exam blueprint. Apptio's own site describes Cloudability as software that "ingests, normalizes, and structures cloud billing and usage data from across your public cloud ecosystem so that you can actively manage spend and consumption to continuously improve the unit economics of cloud service." Candidates who encounter a "Cloudability exam" are typically being assessed on that product's functional areas: cloud financial management, cloud cost management and optimization, FinOps governance, and unit economics. The Apptio Cloudability case studies are 5 cases and about 2,350 words.
1The Commitment Coverage Dilemma
Acme Corp runs 400 EC2 instances across three AWS accounts. Their current commitment coverage is 62% via a mix of 1-year no-upfront Reserved Instances (RIs) and Compute Savings Plans (SPs).
551 words, about 3 min2Kubernetes Cost Allocation Chaos
A SaaS company runs 50 Kubernetes clusters across AWS and GCP, managed by 8 engineering teams. Monthly Kubernetes spend is $250,000, but cost allocation is a mess: 40% of costs are unallocated due to shared namespaces, idle resources, and missing labels.
499 words, about 2 min3The RI Exchange Gamble
A media company has 200 Standard RIs for m5.2xlarge instances in us-east-1, purchased 2 years ago with 1 year remaining. Due to a shift to containerized workloads, they now need more memory-optimized instances (r5.2xlarge).
466 words, about 2 min4The Showback Rebellion
A fintech startup has grown to 300 employees and $5M monthly cloud spend. The CFO introduced showback reports by team, but engineering leaders pushed back, claiming the reports are inaccurate and don't reflect their actual usage.
389 words, about 2 min5Unit Economics for a Multi-Product SaaS
A SaaS company offers three products: A, B, and C. Product A is mature and profitable, B is growing but has high cloud costs, and C is a new experimental product with low revenue but high resource consumption.
445 words, about 2 min