Building a Cloud Tagging Strategy for Cost Allocation
Design a cloud tagging strategy that makes spend attributable, from choosing required tags to enforcing them with policy and fixing untagged resources.
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Browse categories Rightsizing Cloud Compute: A Careful Process for Cutting Waste Without Outages
A safe, repeatable process for rightsizing cloud instances: which metrics to gather, how to decide, how to roll changes out, and when to leave things alone.
On-Demand, Committed Use and Spot: Matching Pricing Models to Workloads
Learn how on-demand, commitment-based discounts and spot capacity differ, which workloads suit each, and how to commit without overbuying.
Where to Start With Cloud Cost Optimization
A practical order of operations for cloud cost optimization: gain visibility, remove waste, right-size resources, then use commitments with care.
How to Choose Cloud Regions and Availability Zones for a New Workload
A practical guide to picking cloud regions and availability zones, balancing latency, data rules, resilience and cost for a new production workload.
A Cloud Architecture Review Checklist Before You Go to Production
Use this pre-production cloud architecture review checklist to catch gaps in security, reliability, operations and cost before real users depend on your system.