Defining roles and responsibilities for cloud cost optimization
Today’s challenging economic climate has driven many IT organizations to launch cost optimization initiatives. If you’re participating in one such initiative, you’ve discovered that cloud cost management is a journey, with many factors to consider and steps to take to improve cloud spending behaviors. If you’re already running in the cloud, the best way to jumpstart your cost optimization initiative is by making sure you have the right governance in place, which will give you immediate cost benefits. Then you can circle back to the process outlined in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure: define your cloud strategy, create your cloud adoption plan, ready your cloud environment, migrate and innovate cloud workloads, then manage and govern your environment. Each step of your cloud journey—from documenting your strategy to setting up ongoing operations—has a cost impact. Our get started guide to managing cloud costs will help you understand the cost implic...