Cloud Cost Management Part I - Orientation

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As Cloud Native consultants, we often get asked about managing cloud costs. The business that doesn’t ever want to save money is a rare one indeed. However, what we have found is that in the Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) age times of plenty businesses were more focussed on delivery and less on profit than they normally would be. Now that interest rates have returned to normal, investors are asking questions about whether their money might return more in a bank than being spent on rented IT infrastructure.

A recent estimate of cloud spend in tech-related industries claimed that 32% was being wasted, driving many CFOs to recover the costs and significantly reduce that waste.

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