Cloud Optimization

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The goal of Cloud optimization is to optimize costs while not affecting productivity of the cloud environment.

Cloud optimization is becoming a necessity because modern IT businesses are made of multiple components, each of which requires its own monitoring to ensure maximum productivity and minimal cost.

One of the greatest advantages that cloud solutions have to offer over on-premise solution is efficiency. Unfortunately, just moving to cloud is not sufficient. Your cloud needs monitoring and optimization to ensure efficient operation.

There are many reasons why an organization might need cloud optimization. These reasons could be:

Unplanned growth - Many businesses find them self's growing at a face pace. Business growth is good, but this growth comes with increasing costs and complexity.
Lack of supporting tools - It is very important to have tools that monitor cloud operation. Without them, it is very hard to know how cloud resources are being used.
Decentralized cloud adoption - Organizational cloud adoption is not centralized In certain cases. Cloud resources should be shared inside organization, thus making cloud operation more efficient.
Limited cloud expertise - Usually companies are limited in terms of knowledge compared to MSP-s that are specialized for specific cloud operations and optimization. Expert understanding of the cloud platform is the key for the successful cloud optimization.

Cloud Optimization Workflow

Consolidation

Consolidation is the first step in cloud optimization process. It involves the elimination of resources that are not in use as well as the preparation for standardization.

Main activities in this phase are:

Infrastructure clean-up - Removal of infrastructure that is not in use (snapshots, unused storage volumes).
Cost optimization features - Initial use of cloud features that help your business to optimize costs (purchasing reserved instances to optimize compute costs)
Reporting - Establishing the basic allocation reporting for cloud costs.

Standardization

Objectives of standardization is to identify reference architecture. Reference architecture represent blueprint for the provisioning and operation of your infrastructure.

Some of the things that can be standardized:

Usage of availability zones
Usage of attached storage
Usage of data in the cloud
Operating system characteristics
Instance types

Optimization

The goal of optimization is to fully utilize all available resources, without sacrificing availability and performance. In this phase companies will have holistic view of their cloud ecosystem.

The ultimate goal of optimization is to have:

Well defined reference architecture
Transparent cloud costs, usage and performance
Automated scaling for dynamic workloads
Cloud analytics
Automated failover
Proactive notification system

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