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Top 5 Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

Cloud Cost Optimization

Ryan Gigs
Aug 09, 2022
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Top 5 Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies
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The most significant advantage of running in the cloud is the ability to scale up and down to meet demand and reduce operating costs. Sometimes you stop a compute instance but forget to delete its storage volume. To monitor it, you need a migration tool with backup measures at industry-leading data transfer speeds. If you temporarily spin up a server and forget to turn it off or remove the storage, your cloud costs can balloon unnecessarily.

If you implement SSO authentication, it will reduce IT costs by 46%. You may be able to upgrade to a newer generation instance to get the same performance at a smaller size. You can compare utilization and capacity to see if resources are underutilized and need to be optimized. Enterprises should recognize cloud spend optimization as an integral part of their workflow.

Cloud providers can follow a consumption-based model and bill businesses based on their resources.

Top 5 Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

The Cloud cost optimization strategy ties costs to specific business areas and provides a detailed view of cloud budget and spend analysis. This cost transparency allows you to allocate more cloud resources to increase your ROI and minimize unnecessary costs.

1. Scale resources efficiently 

Oversized instances are a common problem for cloud architects after signing up for various cloud services. Suppose you sign up for an extra-large Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud web scraping instance. Ultimately, the cost will increase if the developer leaves that instance idle after a certain point.

Cloud Provider helps identify these budget overhauls due to unplanned resource allocation. Moreover, IT automation can act as suspending, resuming, or committing services for effective budgeting cycles.

2. Align your budget with business goals

A key element in controlling costs is ensuring everyone understands your organization's cost requirements. The budgeting feature helps you track allocated budgets and take action when budget thresholds exceed

3. Predict things early

By predicting a reasonable cost based on historical data, you can spend money consciously and avoid wasting money on unnecessary resources. A detailed Business unit forecasting allows you to get an estimated total bill for your chargeback units for the current month based on your past usage.

4. Resource optimization

Detailed analysis of resource-level spending gives you a clear picture of where you're wasting your money. A single resource may be consuming the cost of the entire infrastructure, which can be challenging to see in the overall cost view. Resource Explorer displays resource-level spending details.

You can also view costs by account, region, service, and even day, paving the way for effective resource optimization strategies. With Resource Explorer, it's easy to analyze how each cloud resource contributes to your costs.

5. Use data wisely

Getting the exact data correct can be challenging, especially in multi-cloud environments. Cloud Providers offers custom reports such as budget alerts, trend analysis, and resource explorer. Use these reports to make informed business decisions and save on cloud costs. You can also receive regularly scheduled reports, giving flexibility at the business unit level. With multi-currency support, you can change the report to show how much you'll spend in your preferred currency.

Conclusion

These best practices help better understand cloud cost optimization strategic decisions, and appropriate spending. Cloud providers understand the cloud ecosystem and help align costs with teams, customers, and lines of business. This will give you an idea of where to draw the thread to balance cost and system performance. We often don't realize that these applications are cheaper, more scalable, faster, and more flexible.

Organizations must develop this capability and execute processes before deploying applications, workloads, and projects onto the cloud. It is highly recommended to take consulting from a highly experienced IT firm to audit and suggest the ideal solutions when it comes to governance issues or performance monitoring, or for that matter, cost control on cloud Engineering.

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