Cloud Cost Optimization

While working on Cloud, an important step that consideration that needs to be taken care is Cloud Cost Optimization. This requires an approach, strategy and tools to optimize cloud consumption cost. When customer starts the cloud adoption journey there will be strategic drivers and one of the driver is to reduce infrastructure / Operational cost and to increase scalability, performance & agility. Its only possible by adopting right architecture patterns, enabling cloud governance and time to time upgrading/downgrading to right services.  Cost is one of the key pillar in 5 pillars of cloud well-architecture framework and now a days most of the customers are focusing on how to reduce cloud bills and increase application performance without compromising performance of the overall setup. Few points to consider when planning for Cloud cost optimization - 

• How Cloud Pricing Works
• Cloud Cost Optimization Pillars
• Frameworks for Cloud Cost Optimization
• Cost Optimization Strategy, Governance and Best Practices
• Cost Optimization Tools (Cloud-native and 3rd Party Tools)