| | November 20218IN MY OPINION5 Strategies To Reduce Your Cloud CostW ith the rapid change in the technology environment, to meet the flexible business requirements, organizations have started looking at cloud services to adopt the most resilient platform which can cope with such changes. Moving the workloads into cloud environment provides higher flexibility, deeper visibility into monitoring, and better management. However moving into Cloud services sometimes exhaust the IT budget. It has been observed that most of the organizations, not having strategy around cost savings, end up paying higher cost to the cloud providers. Cost saving in cloud isn't a simple goal to achieve, however with proper planning and using below mentions 5 strategies can help any organization to reduce the overall cost on cloud spending up to 20-25 percent.Know what you need Due to inefficient practice around capacity planning, lack of expertise, and to avoid any performance or downtime related issues, organizations usually subscribe the cloud workload, services or microservices approx. 30-40 percent higher in capacity more than what is actually required to meet business requirements. In most of the cases compute, storage and other microservicesremains unused while organizations are continuously paying to cloud providers. It is important to know what is the minimum resources requirement specific to your business environment, for any service to be hosted on cloud. A good capacity planning practice, due diligence on business functional requirement, Classification, ROI calculation, associated microservicesanalysis, resource requirement baselining etc. can help organizations to reduce approx. 20 percent cloud costing.Establish OversightEfficiency is the vital factor to reduce the cost in the cloud environment. To improve the efficiency, it must be managed, and no environment can be managed until a robust oversight mechanism is in place from monitoring, management and analysis perspective. In cloud environment sometimes resources are overutilized due By Ritika Sahani, Head, Sales & Marketing, Zservice DeskKnown for her excellent IT Service Management, IT Asset Management and IT Infrastructure Operations, she leads the firm's sales with monumental achievements.Ritika Sahani
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