How To Keep Cloud Cost Management In Sync With Cloud Maturity
ITProToday, Thursday, August 24,2023
The more mature your cloud strategy, the more complex cloud cost management becomes. Here's how to manage mature cloud strategies cost-effectively.
If you're a parent, you might be familiar with the adage, "Little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems." The idea is that as your children grow, the challenges you have to navigate expand in both scope and complexity.
You could say something similar about cloud computing and cost management. When your cloud architectures, workloads, and spending patterns are basic, optimizing costs is pretty simple. But as you evolve into more complicated cloud strategies - as businesses often do in order to gain more value from the cloud - managing cloud spending tends to become exponentially more challenging.