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2. Cost Optimization: Return on Your Cloud Investment

Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan1  
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

With an increase in cloud real estate, resource sprawl can become a reality if environments are not managed effectively. Though converting capex to opex is one of the major advantages of cloud computing, you should have a laser focus on optimizing your cloud costs before you even deploy the first resource to ensure the optimal return on investment (ROI). It is a misnomer that monitoring your cloud usage will help with optimizing the ...

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