Cloud Cost Management

By far, most of the enterprises today are laying down a multi-cloud strategy that will incorporate a portfolio of public and private cloud adoptions. There is an extensive variety of business prerequisites that drive the necessity for a heterogeneous range of cloud resource pools including cost, geographic factors, features, and existing investments. For instance, an enterprise may have teams utilizing AWS and Azure and other groups utilizing VMware vSphere to address the issues of various applications and meet business objectives... read more

A standout amongst the most mainstream themes for cloud users is how to cut dollars from their cloud bills i.e. cloud cost management and optimization. Our ongoing article on how to choose the best suitable cloud, comparing AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud was a crowd’s top pick. Nevertheless, it is equally important to focus on your AWS cost management or on your cost optimization of whichever clouds you choose to utilize... read more

What could be the finest choice among Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform for your enterprise? Not only comparing prices is not enough when it comes to choosing your cloud vendor, but it is complicated too. Cloud vendors offer a variety of cloud models and separate discounting schemes. AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform lay out various offers with regards to the different use cases... read more

“Cloud adoption is easy and secure.”- Really? How easy and How secure? Having said that, no one really wants to spend their time maintaining physical servers and managing their tangled workload when they can use that time to build something profitable. Hence, Cloud Computing comes into the light. It has enabled large enterprises to switch from physical servers to virtual machines entirely. However, migration to the cloud is not as simple as it seems and very often organizations make mistakes along the way which are likely to produce undesirable results... read more

In this contemporary world, cloud cost has emerged as a conundrum. Technical gurus have been working their minds off to understand the unexpected hikes, the trends it is going to follow, the best tools for Cloud Cost Management and so on. In hindsight, the amount spent on cloud often comes out to be the most at the end of the year and it is only fair for enterprises that it pays off. However, after spending this lot of money, even a little percentage of cost saved stretches far... read more

It was 2011 when this Stanford graduate, Cameron Teitelman founded an educational nonprofit accelerator called “StartX” with an altruistic twist out of his “nurture-over-nature”. StartX was born out of an experimental project of Teitelman’s that soon became an elite Silicon Valley accelerator providing promising student and alumni entrepreneurs of Stanford with all the resources and support they need to succeed in their ventures and build the next big thing... read more

In order to seek a secure, minimal maintenance option for Cloud Cost Management and Cloud Cost Optimization , enterprises are likely to migrate to the public cloud. A seamless cloud migration strategy with the use of proper Cloud Management Tools and metrics play a crucial role in satisfying the need for an optimum amount and exact type of cloud resources, ensuring an optimum cost at the same time. Migration to a public cloud, although very suitable from cost and maintenance point of view, could disturb the balance of an enterprise’s IT department, with more mergers and acquisitions, making the process even further complicated. Thus, it would need to be managed in a consolidated manner as the organization’s cloud strategy would go haywire with an addition of a number of clouds from different vendors creating a conundrum. Many companies have, in fact, faced this situation and it proved to be a real challenge. A number of company acquisitions, each with their own cloud infrastr...

Managing your AWS resources is an important step to cloud cost management . Detach and discard unused, obsolete resources. Also, upgrade your first-generation instances to the current generation... read more

Your EBS snapshots are potential elements of AWS cost management . They remain on S3 and keep on racking up monthly charges if not monitored regularly. Snapshots that have no attached volumes to it are good contenders for deletion unless they are required for creating new EBS volumes in future... read more

Did you ever feel the need for a high-resolution lens that gives you a complete yet granular visibility into your ever-changing AWS Cloud cost and usage? Probably, every time you deal with a tangled cloud bill with lots of cost spikes and leaks in it... read more

It’s a known fact that moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS) can provide huge benefits in agility, responsiveness, simplified operations and improved innovation, but many mistakenly assume that migrating to the public cloud will lead to cost savings. In reality, cost saving is harder than you think as the organizations need to implement management, governance, and automation to combat easily rising cloud costs. Otherwise, you won’t even have the slightest idea until the bill actually hits you. Here are some commonly practiced strategies that can help you achieve AWS Cost Optimization... read more

Within an enterprise, different workloads running in the cloud demand different cost allocation based on resources, regions, services used, etc. Since all workloads under AWS cannot be tagged, splitting them into multiple accounts, one account for each workload can help you define cost allocation and differentiate better. But wait! More is more of a problem. Controlling the cost and usage of AWS cloud infrastructure... read more

“The essentiality of cost management” itself becomes demystifying when it comes to leveraging the cloud. In an AWS-dominated cloud world where on-demand and pay-as-you-go pricing models sound reassuring, the newbies entering the Cloud make it obvious for themselves to spiral their cloud costs out of control. But wait! Enterprise IT initiatives are not the only ones that mess up their cloud cost management.... read more