Smart Tactics To Reduce Cloud Waste at Your Business

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Smart Tactics to Reduce Cloud Waste in your
Business
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Introduction What is cloud waste and how do we
avoid it?

• Cloud waste is the unnecessary spending of
  manpower and finance on cloud services. Often
  these services are not fully utilised or havent
  been optimised to their fullest. A recent study
  from Cloudzero suggests that around 32 of cloud
  spending is wasted. If youre anything like
  ourselves, that figure would make your eyes
  water. All that unnecessary spend can skyrocket
  and very quickly become a major budget headache.

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Tips to cut costs and optimise Cloud Resources

• The only way to minimise cloud waste is to
  conduct a full and comprehensive cloud audit and
  identify it
• Underutilised Resources
• Overprovisioned instances
• Unnecessary Services

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Tips to cut costs and optimise Cloud Resources
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Most cloud management tools will allow you to
generate a variety of reports. Use these reports
to look at usage patterns, costs and important
performance metrics. This initial assessment
should serve as a foundation for building and
implementing effective waste reduction strategies
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Tips to cut costs and optimise Cloud Resources
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• Put in Place Right-Sizing Strategies
• Use Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
• Install an Automated Scaling Process
• Track and Optimise Storage
• Schedule Your Cloud Resources
• Delete Unused or Orphaned Cloud Resources
• Weed out Duplicate Services
• Embrace Serverless Architecture

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Bonus Tip -
Schedule a Call With Jera Team and we will help
you to Eliminate Cloud Waste
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This information is copied from
https//jerait.co.uk/articles/cloud-waste-deletion
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