The document discusses cloud cost optimization strategies to help organizations manage over-provisioned and under-utilized resources effectively, ensuring maximum benefits at reduced costs. Key practices include analyzing resource usage, right-sizing, decommissioning unused services, and developing a roadmap for continuous optimization. The aim is to assist businesses in taking control of their total cloud spend without negatively impacting performance, yielding an average savings of 25% on cloud bills.

1. Cloud Cost Optimization
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2. Today, provisioning and scaling resources in cloud is easy and simple and can be done with a click of
a button. Organizations are leveraging the latest and most innovative cloud services to expand their
businesses, one thing they don’t realize is the complexity of managing over-provisioned and
under-utilized resources and cost optimizing to get the maximum benefits at the lowest price point.
The reality of the cloud is that the total cost of ownership steadily rise over time and without clear
insights into what drives your spend, strategic cost reduction is impossible.
• Analyse provisioned services & resources, their sizes & associated costs. One of the best
approach to start with is to identify the top 5 cost consuming resources.
• Identify the resources and services as per the production and non-production environments.
• Perform usage analysis and patterns for all services and resources to match capacity with
demand and identify waste resources.
• Assess the anomalies, improvement areas, standardized approach and architectural gaps.
• Prepare a roadmap for cost optimization which includes forecasts and trends,
recommendations for cloud optimization and application modernization
Cloud Cost Assessment
CLOUD COST
OPTIMIZATION
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Cloud Cost Optimization is developing a cost reduction strategy and implementation plan to reduce
the cloud bill without negatively impacting the business and the performance. Take control of the
total cost and continuously optimize your cloud spend, while building modern, scalable applications
to meet your business needs.
Overview
Cloud Cost Optimization is developing a cost reduction strategy and implementation plan to reduce the
cloud bill without negatively impacting the business and the performance. Take control of the total cost
and continuously optimize your cloud spend, while building modern, scalable applications to meet your
business needs.

3. Driving cloud cost and optimization of resources including compute, storage, database, and networking
across infrastructure, platform, or software as a service requires a comprehensive cloud optimization
strategy focusing on business benefits and a better return on investment. Some of the best practices for
cost optimization are:
• Decommission or terminate unused
services & resources.
• Implement right-sizing for all
over-provisioned resources.
• Purchase or modify reserved compute
resources or bid for spot resources based
on sizes and usage.
• Use managed services or PaaS to reduce
cost of ownership.
• Resize non-production environment
resources and decommission them during
holidays and weekends.
• Create a different disaster recovery
strategy (downtime and data loss) for
production and non-production
environments and applications.
• Rearchitect application to leverage cloud
native services instead of using third-party
tools or buying environments.
• Optimize storage services including
backup, infrequent access tier, archive,
and lifecycle policy.
• Allocations and Tags based on
environment, business application,
projects, departments, etc.
• Avoid orphaned resources and always use
new and latest services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with
templates, launch configurations, and
scripts wherever possible.
• Establish policies and mechanisms to
ensure appropriate costs are incurred.
• Set budgets and alarm for consumption
and cost notifications.
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Cost Optimization
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We have a team of experts who will analyse and evaluate the cloud bill. They will help optimize the
resources and services in the cloud. On average, they will help to save 25% of the could bill. Some
of the advantages are:
• Get the maximum business benefits at the lowest price point.
• Easy to understand bills with tags and allocations.
• Get high accuracy, better forecasts, and optimized costs.
• We will help you adopt the cost saving culture.
• We will provide greater transparency into usage and charges.
• Our methodology is adjusted based on the client’s requirement and
business model.
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