EDITOR ’ S QUESTION
As more and more organizations continue to find out , cloud costs can very quickly spiral out of control as their business scales . This isn ’ t ideal efficiency in normal circumstances , but it ’ s especially worrisome during a shaky economic climate where every dollar counts .
The specific reasons for why cloud costs are going up depend on the organization , but programmatic resource allocation and the use of relatively expensive resources ( like GPUs ) can quickly lead to budget inflation in the absence of conscious cloud cost management .
As businesses continue to ratchet up their cloud use , even what had been relatively small cost inefficiencies can start having a very significant bottom-line impact .
For CIOs and other technology leaders to address this issue now and to ensure ongoing cloud cost efficiency , the key lies in visibility and ownership across our teams .
For CIOs and other technology leaders to address this issue now and to ensure ongoing cloud cost efficiency , the key lies in visibility and ownership across our teams .
control and optimization and a challenge that enterprises and their technology leaders are increasingly coming up against as they modernize application development processes .
Like other areas of cloud cost management , it ’ s not just tools that help . It ’ s ensuring teams have the visibility , power and motivation to avoid unnecessary cloud overspend . p
Enterprises must-have a granular understanding of their cloud spending up and down the stack with the ability to quickly make changes as needed .
If you can ’ t pinpoint where your overall cloud spend is going , you can ’ t confidently make adjustments that can reduce costs without risking application performance .
Technology leaders must also cultivate a culture of cloud cost responsibility and accountability that includes both engineering and finance teams .
We ’ ve seen that simply making engineering teams more aware of their cloud spending can have a substantial impact on promoting more budget-efficient cloud environments .
Our world – cloud costs as they relate to Kubernetes deployments – is a particularly ripe area for cost
AJAY TRIPATHY , CTO , KUBECOST
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