How to optimize cost and find budget for sales?

Most of the firms have their main share of their IT budget on infrastructure whether they be cloud or on-premises. Cloud can be AWS or Azure or GCP or any other platform.

All of them will be having consumption based billing. It requires to be constantly monitored to make sure that the cloud costs are not overshooting and create headache for the CIO and subsequently CFO.

It is normally expensive to maintain exceptional team to monitor cloud all the time. Even if you happen to find an exceptional cloud engineer or team, he/they may churn because of their talent and the competitive offer. Moreover, when the team finds out about a surge in cloud usage due to an application, it has to be investigated by the application instantly for which another special team has to be maintained.

All of these increase costs to the company. On-premise solutions helps in situation because we are not concerned about the usage but constant upgrades to the infrastructure is expensive. Downtime is also a big factor.

So how to reduce cost in this scenario?

How can we allocate budget to revenue team by reducing cost here?

The answer is to have a cloud consulting team perform constant monitoring and optimization of the data center infrastructure so that the costs are optimized.

This reduced cost can be allocated to revenue team for improving their revenue generating activities.

Consumption based cloud billing is a blessing to get started because of their low cost to entry but without constant monitoring, the cloud bill will balloon up.

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