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Cost Optimization
Implement cloud financial management
Establish ownership of cost optimization
Establish a partnership between finance and technology
Establish cloud budgets and forecasts
Implement cost awareness in your organizational processes
Monitor cost proactively
Keep up-to-date with new service releases
Quantify business value from cost optimization
Report and notify on cost optimization
Create a cost-aware culture
Govern usage
Develop policies based on your organization requirements
Implement goals and targets
Implement an account structure
Implement cost controls
Implement groups and roles
Track project lifecycle
Monitor your cost and usage
Configure detailed information sources
Identify cost attribution categories
Establish organization metrics
Configure billing and cost management tools
Add organization information to cost and usage
Allocate costs based on workload metrics
Decommission resources
Enforce data retention policies
Implement a decommissioning process
Decommission Resources
Enforce data retention policies
Decommission resources automatically
Evaluate cost when you select services
Perform cost analysis for different usage over time
Analyze all components of this workload
Perform a thorough analysis of each component
Select components of this workload to optimize cost in line with organization priorities
Perform cost analysis for different usage over time
Select software with cost effective licensing
Meet cost targets when you select resource type, size and number
Perform cost modeling
Select resource type, size, and number based on data
Select resource type, size, and number automatically based on metrics
Use pricing models to reduce cost
Perform pricing model analysis
Choose Regions based on cost
Select third-party agreements with cost-efficient terms
Implement pricing models for all components of this workload
Perform pricing model analysis at the management account level
Plan for data transfer charges
Perform data transfer modeling
Select components to optimize data transfer cost
Implement services to reduce data transfer costs
Manage demand, and supply resources
Perform an analysis on the workload demand
Implement a buffer or throttle to manage demand
Supply resources dynamically
Evaluate new services
Develop a workload review process
Review and analyze this workload regularly
Evaluate the cost of effort
Perform automation for operations
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Cost Optimization
Category - Cost Optimization
Implement cloud financial management
Establish ownership of cost optimization
Establish a partnership between finance and technology
Establish cloud budgets and forecasts
Implement cost awareness in your organizational processes
Monitor cost proactively
Keep up-to-date with new service releases
Quantify business value from cost optimization
Report and notify on cost optimization
Create a cost-aware culture
Govern usage
Develop policies based on your organization requirements
Implement goals and targets
Implement an account structure
Implement cost controls
Implement groups and roles
Track project lifecycle
Monitor your cost and usage
Configure detailed information sources
Identify cost attribution categories
Establish organization metrics
Configure billing and cost management tools
Add organization information to cost and usage
Allocate costs based on workload metrics
Decommission resources
Enforce data retention policies
Implement a decommissioning process
Decommission Resources
Enforce data retention policies
Decommission resources automatically
Evaluate cost when you select services
Perform cost analysis for different usage over time
Analyze all components of this workload
Perform a thorough analysis of each component
Select components of this workload to optimize cost in line with organization priorities
Perform cost analysis for different usage over time
Select software with cost effective licensing
Meet cost targets when you select resource type, size and number
Perform cost modeling
Select resource type, size, and number based on data
Select resource type, size, and number automatically based on metrics
Use pricing models to reduce cost
Perform pricing model analysis
Choose Regions based on cost
Select third-party agreements with cost-efficient terms
Implement pricing models for all components of this workload
Perform pricing model analysis at the management account level
Plan for data transfer charges
Perform data transfer modeling
Select components to optimize data transfer cost
Implement services to reduce data transfer costs
Manage demand, and supply resources
Perform an analysis on the workload demand
Implement a buffer or throttle to manage demand
Supply resources dynamically
Evaluate new services
Develop a workload review process
Review and analyze this workload regularly
Evaluate the cost of effort
Perform automation for operations