Organizations under pressure to cut cloud costs often reach for discount programs first as the simplest lever. It feels like a win to commit to reserved capacity or enterprise agreements because it lowers the rate paid per unit of compute or storage. However, this approach conceals a dangerous trap. When discounts are secured before workloads […]
5 FinOps Strategies Every DevOps Team Should Adopt
If cloud costs feel unpredictable, tools can help teams take control, shifting FinOps from a reactive process to a proactive strategy that eliminates guesswork.
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Reducing Energy Consumption With Cloud Cost Efficiency
A new study from Stanford University found that it takes 75 gigajoules per year of energy for a person to have a good, long life, but the average American uses nearly four times that amount: 284 gigajoules/year. In fact, the U.S. consumes 17% of the world’s energy while accounting for only 4% of the population. […]
Four Steps to Avoiding a Cloud Cost Incident
The recent Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report found that organizations waste 32% of their cloud spend, up from 3o% last year. This can be due to cloud cost incidents triggered by unused resources, malicious activity or overambitious projects and which have a massive financial impact if not found and corrected promptly. As an […]
Designing Cost-Efficient Cloud Environments
Today, the days of on-premises data centers are mostly behind us, and the cloud has largely taken over with the promise of scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency. Despite these promises, the cloud often falls short of these ideals. Why? Because managing the cloud is hard—especially when it comes to managing its costs. There are no automatic […]
Cloud Governance Can Trim Cloud Costs
The abrupt need to transition to remote work last year caused many companies to migrate to the cloud or accelerate an in-process migration. Cloud has become an essential part of company operations and budgets. Last year, worldwide end user spending on public cloud services was $257.5 billion, making up 9.1% of total global enterprise IT […]
Using Automation to Control Cloud Costs
By building in cost control automation from the very beginning, you can keep your cloud costs low while encouraging innovation. Infrastructure automation has become vital for every modern sys admin and operations team. Applications and systems are evolving from single-host mainframes to distributed microservices architectures. This automation has gone from basic operating system installation and […]