Cost Management and Best Practices

Cloud migration has been the top priority for many IT organizations in the past few years and is still a strategic, relevant direction for the coming years. Running and owning one’s own data center is also still a valuable approach; the design and costs for one’s own data center capabilities are usually more thought through than with the cloud. In this chapter, we are going to dig deeper into this and will reflect on the necessity of cloud cost management and optimization.

You will learn more about tagging strategies and why they are a viable resource for gaining visibility and transparency in your cloud spending. We will also examine how to define them, best practices, and practical approaches to ensure they are well set. With this as a foundation, we will move on to the four pillars of cost optimization: processes, pricing, usage, and design.

To close this chapter, we share practical tips on how to optimize your platform and...