Cloud computing has brought agility and efficiency to enterprise IT infrastructure. With the increasing volume of business on the cloud and complexity of business scearios, there is a widespread phenomenon of unreasonable or transitional resource allocation on the cloud. As meanwhile, enterprises are also facing great challenges in cost management efficiency, control, and balancing business objectives and costs among multiple organizations.
The Cost Optimization pillar provides design principles and best practices on the cloud, helping enterprises to efficiently build business applications, reduce unnecessary expenditures and improve operational efficiency, making enterprises more cost-effective on the cloud. Cost optimization does not mean low prices, but the necessary trade-offs. The key is to improve efficiency, rationally select resources, and to achieve a balance between business objectives, security compliance, stability, and cost.
Cost optimization runs through the entire lifecycle of an enterprise's use of the cloud. This pillar expounds from aspects such as cloud financial planning and management, cost visualization and allocation, cost controlling, selection of cloud services and billing methods, application load cost optimization, providing in-depth guidance for enterprises to achieve business goals at the optimal cost on the cloud.