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The Five Pillars of Cloud Cost Optimization: Why They Matter & How to Apply Them

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  The companies in the modern day world are cognizant of the reality that the utilization of clouds is linked to the challenge of agility as well as cost. Without a disciplined approach, cloud bills can go out of control. There is Cloud Cost Optimisation of five pillars. These pillars act as a guideline whereby organisations achieve the performance, flexibility and financial performance. In CMARIX, we have noticed that these systematic approaches to the work allow the teams to develop on a sustainable basis and provide the physical business contribution. Pillar 1 - Rightsizing Definition Rightsizing means the act of matching the resources (compute, storage, data bases) to the actual work load requirement, but not over-provisioning. Benefits: Eliminates wasted spend. Improves system efficiency. Determines capacity of scale at its location. Tools & Best Practices: In AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Advisor or GCP Recommender, one can use underutilised resources. Adopt autoscaling polic...