Achieve A Unified View with Granular Billing Visualization
Seeing the big cloud picture — and having the ability to drill in — is a preliminary step for gaining control over cloud costs.
Cloud teams need to rely on visualization and reporting tools that create complete, end-to-end visibility into the entire multi-cloud infrastructure and related billing costs from a single platform.
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Budgeting and Forecasting
The migration from on-premises to the public cloud requires that organizations shift away from a known static CAPEX model to a highly dynamic usage-based OPEX model that is notoriously hard to control and forecast.
The cloud makes it easy to spin up new resources — which has allowed organizations to innovate faster but also makes it easy to rack up.
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Complex Pricing and Billing
Garner researchsuggests 95% of IT and business leaders find cloud billing the most confusing aspect of public cloud services.
Multi-cloud and hybrid environments — common in most organizations — add to the complexity and makes reporting on cloud expenses especially challenging.
Major public cloud providers including AWS, Azure and GCP do not have s.
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How can HPE Cost Audit for Cloud help with cloud cost management?
HPE Cost Audit for Cloud is a portfolio-level analysis of your current cloud service utilization, providing specific, immediately actionable recommendations for lowering your costs in the cloud, as well best practices and governance strategies for monitoring and managing future cloud expenses.
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Know and Track Your Cloud Unit Costs
Unit costs are the average costs directly associated with a specific unit delivered by an organization, such as customer, product, feature, or delivery team.
An increase in cloud costs might be a result of business growth – but not always.
Understanding whether a cost increase is proportionately tied to revenue growth requires that you allocate cos.
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Kubernetes Cost Allocation
Optimizing cloud costs is a challenge in and of itself, but the introduction of Kubernetesadds another layer of virtualization to manage.
How can you manage costs if stakeholders lack an accurate view of which resources are being used and in what context.
Reaching inside each container cluster to understand who is driving resource consumption and f.
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Lack of Governance
The inherent ease of provisioning of cloud services often leads to resource sprawl and cost overruns as teams who make decisions about new resources are often unprepared for the self-provisioning nature of managing cloud costs and usage.
Many organizations lack formal governance over new workloads which adds to the challenge of controlling spend an.
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Monitor Your Cloud Costs in Real Time
Cloud cost monitoringis essential for both cloud cost management and optimization.
Monitoring cloud spend is quite different from other organizational costs in that it can be difficult to detect anomaliesin real-time.
Cloud activity that isn’t tracked in real-time opens the door to potentially preventable runaway costs.
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Visibility and Business Context
Visibility into cloud spending is the key to surfacing cost optimization opportunities.
Most teams lack true visibility into their cloud spend, and find it difficult to read and interpret billing data from multiple cloud providers and allocate costs accordingly.
The sheer number of billing items (SKUs) and secondary charges such as storage, data tr.
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Wasted Resources
When cloud environments scale, so do the opportunities to waste resources — you pay for what you provision, regardless of utilization.
For every organization, there are many opportunities to eliminate wasted cloud resources.
But this first involves identifying inefficiencies, such as over-provisioned, idle, or unused resources, as well as cost spik.
