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The Cost of the Cloud

  • February 16, 2023 at 10:02 pm

    #4150773

    Doctor Who 2 wrote:

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    At this rate only doing lift-and-shift means we're putting all our eggs into my cloud approach.

    Yes and no. If you lift and shift, it's a VM. You can move that back on premises, or to another cloud.

  • February 17, 2023 at 2:25 am

    #4150849

    OK, you've got me, Steve.

    Rod

  • May 1, 2025 at 6:24 am

    #4586355

    Great piece. It hits home how the cloud can quietly become a financial sinkhole when governance is lacking. The flexibility and scalability of cloud platforms like Azure or AWS are powerful, but without tight cost monitoring, tagging, and lifecycle policies, teams often end up paying for resources long forgotten.

    One thing I've seen help is implementing a "cloud cost owner" role, even if informally, to audit usage and flag anomalies regularly. Also, integrating cloud cost visibility into the development pipeline (like using budget alerts or cost dashboards alongside CI/CD tools) can keep engineers more aware of the real impact of their choices.

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