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In our previous posts, we b riefly introduced   Gartner's Framework for Managing and Optimizing Cots of Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS ,  started the overview of Maestro as a financial governance tool - from the first step, Planning , and proceeded to Tracking and Reducing . Now, we are ready to see how Maestro can be useful in the rest of the steps - Optimization and Evolving. Optimize Once cost and utilization reduction is quite a technical step, the next one, optimization, often needs changes in architecture, so that the applications need less resources for same or even higher performance. These are the decisions that are to be made by project teams. However, Maestro has several features that can help you in defining the direction. Within its Optimization reports, Maestro not only identifies low-utilized resources, but also provides the statistics on existing AWS instances purchase options . This allows you to get another perspective of the infrastructure and use this data w...

In our previous post , we briefly introduced Gartner's Framework for Managing and Optimizing Cots of Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS  and started the overview of Maestro as a financial governance tool - from the first step, Planning. Once planning is completed and the actual infrastructure is deployed to Cloud, it's time to start with the second step - Tracking. Step 2: Track Establishing the visibility of Cloud spending is the next step in our journey. Effective tracking needs effective organization of the costs review and proper reaction to anomalies. Maestro has a big set of cost and performance tracking tools and mechanisms that can be used for costs optimization. Even though Maestro supports different cloud providers, it brings the tenants organization to unified terminology, without breaking the native hierarchy. Any Cloud resource, event, or cost record can be easily detected and identified as that belonging to a specific cloud, tenant and region. This simplifies further r...

Costs management and optimization are one of the keystones for any organization hosting their environment in Cloud. Meanwhile, providing the capability to review, control, and plan Cloud expenses is among the core tasks set for modern Cloud Management Solutions. Gartner has developed a Guidance Framework which describes in detail the steps, tools and procedures to be used for Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS costs management and optimization. One of the core ideas is that cost optimization is the task and priority set not only for one dedicated department – this is a common goal that can be reached by effective collaboration of different teams within a single organization. Thus, it suggests not only focusing on the operational part but also provides recommendations on cost optimization steps that can be made from architecture, governance, application and DevOps perspective. Once each team may have their own toolset used to fulfill the daily tasks, synchronizing all the activities may be...