10 Strategies to keep your Cloud costs under control
summary
Ten concrete tactics and their measurable impacts: create a PhOps = engineer + analyst + leader team embedded in the Cloud CoE to align finance and product; enforce tagging and Azure Policies to map cost to workloads; apply dev test subscription: ~55% savings where SLA is unnecessary; balance reserved instances vs saving plans and keep a 10–15% buffer; watch that licenses can be ~40% of the bill (SQL Server examples: ~$4,000 vs ~$1,000); use IaC so ephemeral environments can be deleted and reliably rebuilt.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction and session overview
- 1:18Why cloud cost control matters
- 10:20Building a FinOps team
- 20:05Tagging resources for governance
- 24:20Optimizing code for cloud efficiency
- 25:51Rearchitecting cloud solutions
- 27:39Managing license costs
- 29:08Using dev test subscriptions
- 30:15Setting guardrails for cost control
- 31:40Reserved instances vs saving plans
- 35:17Chargeback vs showback models
- 37:28Infrastructure as code for cost savings
- 39:15Five common cost optimization mistakes
- 44:34Key takeaways and closing
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