@Finch close is Friday. I need August cloud spend vs budget by team, with a note on anything more than 10% over.
Two teams are over, and both were planned. Here is the breakdown.
- Data Platform: $148,200, 18% over. Snowflake migration approved by Mark K. in July, finishes Sep 15.
- ML: $96,400, 11% over. GPU training for the AI Assistant launch, on the roadmap for October.
- Core Services: $121,700, 3% under. Commitments and off-hours schedules working as planned.
- Everything else: $46,000, within budget.
Net of commitment discounts, September is tracking to $405,000. The full report has per-team detail, tag coverage, and journal-ready totals.
@Finch Post it to #finance-close and send it on the 1st of every month.
Building the close package: spend vs budget by team, variance notes, and journal-ready totals. Setting the monthly schedule.
Report posted to #finance-close with the Google Sheet linked. You will get the same package on the 1st of every month at 8 AM, and I will flag any variance over 10% the day it appears.
@Finch board meeting Thursday. What is cloud cost as a percent of revenue, and cost per customer, for the last two quarters?
Revenue grew 22% while cloud spend grew 6%, so both measures improved. Three things drove it:
- Commitments: coverage 64% to 82%, $9,850 a month
- Rightsizing: across Core Services, $14,200 a month
- Off-hours schedules: on staging and dev, $6,900 a month
One flag for the deck: cost per customer on the Enterprise tier is flat, because dedicated clusters scale with each account.
@Finch Send the summary to #board-prep with the chart. Same numbers every quarter, please.
Preparing the slide-ready summary with a six-quarter trend chart for cloud as a share of revenue and cost per customer.
Summary and chart posted to #board-prep. I will refresh the same two numbers in the first week of every quarter and note anything that moved more than two points.
@Finch what did Platform spend last month, and what changed from July?
Almost all of the increase is the Snowflake migration you approved. Here is where the money went:
- Snowflake migration: $19,800. Running both warehouses until Sep 15, then it drops off.
- EKS prod cluster: $61,300, flat. Utilization steady at 68%.
- Load test environment: $2,100. John's test ended Aug 22, back on its off-hours schedule.
- Everything else: $64,900, within 2% of July.
September forecast is $131,000 once the old warehouse goes away. Want this in your team channel every Monday?
@Finch Post it to #platform-team and yes, every Monday.
Building the Platform report by service, with the July comparison and the September forecast. Setting the Monday schedule.
Report posted to #platform-team. Every Monday at 9 AM you will get last week's spend by service, what changed, and why. I will call out anything new before it shows up on the bill.
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