3 Reasons to Correlate Cloud Costs to Engineering Releases

Correlating engineering releases with cloud costs can provide significant benefits for organizations, such as early bug detection, fostering a cost-centric mindset, and shortening feedback loops for quicker resolution of issues. When teams analyze cloud cost management and deployments together, they can identify cost-related anomalies that might indicate bugs, such as infinite loops in Amazon CloudWatch or excessive logging in Google Cloud Platform Stackdriver. This practice encourages developers to optimize cloud spending by understanding pricing models and the impact of engineering decisions on costs. Furthermore, integrating deployments with cost analysis helps narrow down the root causes of cost spikes, reducing business impact and enhancing user satisfaction. Harness, an end-to-end software delivery platform, facilitates this process by offering features like anomaly detection and custom dashboards that correlate cost spikes with deployments, simplifying the monitoring and optimization of cloud expenses.