Having a healthy cloud is one of the most important aspects of a successful enterprise. Your cloud might be sick and in need of a heavy dose of cloud management steroids for optimal functioning and cost management. Here’s a list of symptoms to check if your cloud has cost fever and how you can treat it.
COST FEVER
SYMPTOM: Your cloud bills are always running high like a fever. You frequently launch new services because it’s easy, and end up paying a high price.
TREATMENT: ‘Cloud management platforms’. Unified cloud cost management gives you all data costs in a single pane (dashboard). With access and visibility to all your cloud spend, you can easily get immediate answers on why cost has spiked and the actual reason behind it.
SYMPTOM: The lack of transparency among department spends is turning you into an insomniac. Anyone in any of your IT department is able to purchase and spend on anything they wish, without a systematic order in place.
TREATMENT: Know exactly where each penny is going, by the tagging feature provided by CMPs. It helps you in analyzing resources by business units. Efficient tagging for your cloud infrastructure is a blessing in disguise that will save you piles of money in the future.
SYMPTOM You’re anxious and are always asking yourself: “Am I really spending on what I need”? The ‘pay as you go’ model is not ‘saving’ but ‘costing’ you money. You don’t know which resources are underused and unused. You’re just throwing money away by paying for what you don’t need.
TREATMENT: Cloud management platforms help you to ‘save’ costs while using the ‘pay as you go’ model by tracking unused and underused resources. This way, you can put your money where your mouth is by identifying recurring costs.
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