As a Unity Project Manager, I want to know how much i'm spending on shared services.

[mike-gangl]

Similar to #54 but for shared services.

• Algorithm Catalog
• Data Catalog

[galenatjpl]

@mike-gangl I'm sure there is a way to do this, but I have some hesitations about how this would happen. AWS reports cost for atomic units of resource (for example a single instance of a DynamoDB, or a S3 bucket, etc..). I'm not sure if this is the case, but if multiple projects have entries in the same Data Catalog, for example, and that's hosted by a single database, there might not be a clear way to divide the costs up. However, perhaps the easy way is to simply divide the cost of a shared resource by the number of projects. So if a database costs $5 per month, and there are 5 projects, then each project would pay $1. I think these shared services are intended to be pretty light-weight (not hold the actual data, but just references and metadata), so this actually may be close to a fair thing to do. Anyway, further strategy/discussion is needed here.

[mike-gangl]

agreed @galenatjpl , it's not my intention to bill a project here, just to know how much the resource is costing us for a reporting point of view. If, say, the API Gateway or the data catalog become very expensive, we'd have to look into billing units for those

[mike-gangl]

This might be addressed in #54 because that has been made less venue specific and more about the work we need to get done. We will keep this open until we get to this, and close if we already did tag allocations.

[galenatjpl]

I marked this as "done" on the project board, since we have a solution (i.e. mostly #54) that allows for costing in a non-specific way using tags on the Kion dashboard, and we have proven that to work.

[galenatjpl]

closing