Stage 2—Keeping Costs and Cloud Usage Under Control

With the well-known advantages of flexibility, scalability, short time-to-market, and reduced costs, the use of the public cloud is very attractive for many companies. When taking the first steps into the public cloud, most companies often start with a so-called lift-and-shift migration. In the course of this migration, the existing IT infrastructure is moved unchanged from the on-premise data center to the public cloud. However, to efficiently exploit the advantages of the public cloud, the establishment of cloud optimization services is suitable. The focus of the Cloud Optimization Services is on cost management, automation, and standardization. The FinOps approach covers the responsibilities, processes, and technologies required for successful cost management and optimization. With the help of Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud resources can also be developed code-based to make them available in a predefined standard. These standardized resources are bundled and categorized into services to make the technologies of the public cloud accessible to the company.