BUILDING THE PROCESS

Azure Cost Optimization Strategy #3

STEP 3

BUILDING THE PROCESS

The road to cloud overspend often begins as an earnest attempt to improve processes. But without a strong process from the outset, you can easily wander astray into wastefulness and inefficiency.

The Azure cloud environment and the rules within it change several times a year, which often happens quietly. Companies may not know they have new opportunities to save or improve performance. That’s why cost and performance optimization must become an ongoing effort baked into your organization’s strategy.

Between vigilant monitoring and intel gathered from dozens of customer conversations every month, SHI helps companies keep up with changes and take appropriate actions.

Learn more about SHI’s strategy for building and enforcing process >>>

DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY

Your Checklist for Optimized Azure Costs

When you work with SHI for cloud cost optimization, our engagement model is built around regular reviews ranging from monthly for basic subscription levels all the way to daily optimization for fully-managed services.

Our optimization team will join forces with your Cloud Center of Excellence and/or representatives from IT, finance and accounting to keep your cloud investments efficient and cost-effective. Regular touch points include:

DAILY

Unattached storage volumes and IP addresses
Aging snapshots
Unused services and networks

WEEKLY

VM rightsizing
Database rightsizing
PaaS rightsizing
Idle instances
Storage performance rightsizing
Storage capacity rightsizing

MONTHLY

Reserved capacity utilization
Unused, convertible, and expiring reservations
Reservation recommendations
Storage lifecycle
Idle/zombie load balancers
Resource scheduling

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