Other Considerations for Cloud Economics

SHOW: Season 3, Show 4

OVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, The Cloudcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce this new podcast,  Cloudcast Basics.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS FOR CLOUD ECONOMICS

Introduction & Explanation: 

• Read up on how other people have engaged with the cloud and their experiences from an economic perspective - both good and bad. 
• Baseline your usage with early applications and usage models. 
• Focus early-on to align your cloud costs to the revenues or business metrics for specific projects. 
• Consider evolving your Financial team to understand the various cloud economic models, or consider investing in FinOps skills and tools
• Understand your vendors’s business model - where/when do they discount, where/when do they apply credits, etc.
• Educate your teams that experimentation is something to embrace. Educate them about how to leverage the services within the cloud to augment their teams. 

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