Cost Control
Assigning cloud costs to responsible teams
Assign direct cloud charges, document shared-cost rules and give teams statements they can review and reconcile.
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Cost Control
Cost Control
Choosing storage tiers from access patterns
Use read frequency, retrieval time and retention to choose object-storage tiers, then check total lifecycle and recovery costs.
Cost Control
Cloud cost management
Build a consistent cloud cost view, assign charges to workloads, investigate changes and reconcile internal reports with the final bill.
Cost Control
Cloud resource optimisation
Review charged resources, compute size, operating hours and commitments against workload needs and actual billing.
Cost Control
Comparing compute pricing units with realistic workloads
Build a fair cloud compute estimate using workload scenarios, billing units, storage and data transfer.
Cost Control
Comparing reserved vs spend commitments in uncertain demand
Compare AWS, Azure and Google Cloud commitments using eligible demand, matching rules and a lower-use cost case.
Cost Control
Estimating database costs from storage and query activity
Build a managed-database cost estimate from running capacity, storage, backups, transfers and the right query billing model.
Cost Control
Finding idle cloud resources with ongoing charges
Trace billable idle cloud resources to their owners and purpose before stopping or deleting VMs, disks and addresses.
Cost Control
Reading a cloud bill by service and workload
Reconcile the billed total, inspect service charges and billing units, and keep shared or unassigned workload costs visible.
Cost Control
Right-sizing compute after measuring workload
Measure busy workload demand, screen compute sizes and check application results before treating a resize as a saving.
Cost Control
Scheduling non-production resources around use
Set operating windows for development and test resources, check provider stop behaviour and observe a full start-stop cycle.
Cost Control
Separating predictable charges from usage spikes
Classify purchases, recurring charges, usage and adjustments, then compare billable units to investigate a cloud cost increase.