When you are planning to adopt cloud for your operations and workflows, it’s pretty easy to lose control over the resources, software, and applications you are deploying to the cloud. Everything comes over an online platform where accessibility and availability is much higher, easier, and flexible. So, anyone could be using the cloud resources at any time. Moreover, the users can be launching newer instances and servers, creating more storage and databases, and perform more testing and experiments. This not only can lead to a cloud cost creep due to unbudgeted and unplanned use of cloud resources but can even make your platform vulnerable to security threats and issues.

So, when adopting cloud, you need to have a strategy that keeps the platform in your control. You must be well aware of how the cloud resources and services are being used. You must have a clear insight related to the cloud servers, their active or inactive status, storage space taken and in use, as well as the vulnerabilities your platform is exposed to, so you can take measured and timely actions for curbing them. Additionally, you must be able to present all these insights available with you to your teams in a very clear, concise, and detailed manner, so they can understand the business requirements, cloud usage, and use the services in an efficient, effective, and controlled manner.

Another very crucial aspect in taking the control over your cloud infrastructure is managing the costs accruing with the adoption of the cloud. You need to make sure that you are within your cloud budgets and implement cost optimization strategies to keep the costs in control and prevent your organization from falling into the cloud cost creep. You can be sure of the cloud cost management by adopting cost optimization strategies and taking AWS Cost Optimization Services at the hands of expert, experienced, and certified cloud professionals.