• Complex pricing from cloud providers makes selecting services confusing, and the lack of accurate billing visibility often causes budgets to go off track.
• The lack of responsibility for managing cloud budgets is a prominent cause of overspending and under-utilising resources. Instead, budget needs to become just as much a part of the project lifecycle as delivery, with teams working together in new ways to understand requirements and prioritise cost management.
• There are two practical ways that teams can manage and save money on their cloud costs: Implementing a consistent, comprehensive tagging process or utilising a product that provides cost visibility and precise breakdowns.
• The process for managing a cloud budget as it stands wastes time and resources - an upward shift in visibility would remove the need for teams to conduct time-consuming research manually and allow developers to be part of the conversation.

In an on-premise environment, you know what you’re spending on infrastructure; it involves an upfront capital cost. A transition to the cloud provides flexibility, access to a wide range of services, and the ability to delegate deployments, but can come at a cost (pun intended). Cloud pricing is unfamiliar and can be difficult to get to grips with, because you’re charged for individual items as you consume them. Without strong cost-management practices in your business, budgets can easily spiral out of control.

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