{"id":601854,"date":"2021-03-01T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devoteam.com\/expert-view\/cloud-is-quite-often-classified-as-a-cost-center\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:44:32","slug":"cloud-is-quite-often-classified-as-a-cost-center","status":"publish","type":"expert-view","link":"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/en-nl\/expert-view\/cloud-is-quite-often-classified-as-a-cost-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud is quite often classified as a cost center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Migrating to Microsoft Azure allows you to innovate, gain a faster time to market, reach a global scale, expedite features at speed, and quickly respond to customer needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More and more businesses are looking to transform their organization&#8217;s digital <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">strategy by moving to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nl.devoteam.com\/en\/offer\/microsoft-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Microsoft Azure.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During this Cloud adoption process, it is rather important to review key concepts before <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">migrating or deploying the business applications into the public cloud. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Likewise, if you already have workloads in Azure, following best practices in your current environment will help you in the goal to maximize business value at minimum cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are quite a few processes, and tools, that will help you in the Cloud Cost Optimization journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"block-fullwidth-dark\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span>7 tips to save money on Azure<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Devoteam-Fact-Sheet-7-Tips-to-Save-on-Azure-EN-yellow-e1614346778847.png\" alt=\"Devoteam-Fact-Sheet---7-Tips-to-Save-on-Azure---EN-yellow\" width=\"170\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-81829\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Download our new fact sheet for 7 valuable tips about your Azure environment.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"row-more clearfix\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nl.info.devoteam.com\/7-tips-to-save-money-on-Azure\" class=\"bt-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><b>Azure Cost Management<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azure Cost Management is a set of tools that gives you the capacity to plan for, analyze and minimize your Azure spend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azure Cost Management is a completely free service that helps visualize and forecast costs, as well as identify anomalies and find optimization opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Analyze your historical Azure spend<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identify spend inefficiencies\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identify non-utilization and under-utilization of Azure components<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Predict future spend<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Manage budgets\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Create spend alerts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Allocate and budget costs per business unit<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Azure Reserved Instances<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Purchasing Azure Reserved Instances is a great way to receive significant discounts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>These are the three reservation options:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1-year reserved instance\u2014commit to one year upfront &#8211; this delivers a 40-45% discount for most virtual machines<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3-year reserved instance\u2014commit to one year upfront &#8211; this delivers a 60-65% discount for most virtual machines<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spot pricing\u2014 Allows access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts\u2014up to 90% compared to pay-as-you-go prices<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Azure Hybrid Benefit<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azure Hybrid Benefit is a program that leverages Microsoft\u2019s strong footprint in Enterprises.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses can be used in Azure. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the Azure VM costs take into account the cost of Microsoft software licenses, companies can receive discounts on VM costs by leveraging those on-premises licenses. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is also a benefit to older SQL and Server versions, as there is a free extended period for security updates for workloads running on Azure.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Move to Containers<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Containers have a smaller footprint than Virtual Machines. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It will allow you to run several containerized applications on one host. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Repackaging applications as containers will dramatically reduce VM utilization and substantially reduce your costs. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An even higher benefit comes when you transition your containers from Azure VMs to a service like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.devoteam.com\/en\/white-paper-azure-red-hat-openshift-two-big-plants-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Hat Openshift (ARO).<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Standards and Processes\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As in most areas of the business, standards and processes are as good as how well they are followed. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Therefore, evangelization is as key as creating strong standards and processes. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A tried and tested method of achieving this is to involve not just the IT teams in the design process, but also include other areas of the business to achieve this (Finance, HR, Exec teams, etc.). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a first step, these key stakeholders should be involved in the design of a framework that will deliver, at a minimal cost, platform profitability, higher ROI, high availability, performance, disaster recovery, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As you can see by these few examples, it is possible to highly reduce your costs with minimum investment and effort. 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