Have you used a tool that led to a proven decrease in cloud spend?

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Sr Community Manager in Travel and Hospitality2 years ago

based on some of your recent activity, I thought this Q on decreased cloud spending might be of interest. Would love to know your insights here!

Senior Enterprise Architect, Application Consulting in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

Densify has provided excellent results enabling my customer to optimize resource allocation.

CIO in Software2 years ago

We used Cloudyn back in the day before MS acquired it, it was a particularly useful tool for Azure Cloud Spending, now it's built into Azure, and provides much more convenience

But since then, things changed and we host cloud resources with multiple cloud providers now, and we depend on each cloud provider cost estimations.

I wouldn't say it's the best experience, but it did help us cut costs, cloud providers offer resource optimizations/advisor portals that can also help cut costs (e.g. Azure Advisor/Recommendations), but I would say that keeping a close eye on your resources/utilization, optimizing based on that, and staying up to date with the latest cloud features/options (Latest VM Series/Generation for IaaS for example) can really help decrease spending.

Lastly, don't depend on "senior technical team members" for cost optimizations, in most cases, tech savvy people tend to choose whatever option that gives them the most features/highest horsepower regardless of what they need, and they try to make a case for it :) - try to understand the real needs, and ensure that you review your resource utilization reports more frequently.

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Director of Information Security in Energy and Utilities2 years ago

We currently use Microsoft Cost Management to manage our cloud costs. It does save us a lot of money with their Azure Advisor recommendations

VP of Engineering in Software2 years ago

Before exploring other tools, check first the build in tools such as compute optimizer and reservation utilization. Storage is also a common cost factor especially unused, over provisioned virtual disks.