Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Why the cost of your cloud infrastructure could be too high

I've recently been been looking at some significantly increasing cloud hosting costs for a client.

There are a lot of reasons why this is happening... but in short, a lot of additional cloud costs come from these three causes:

1. Incorrect cloud architecture
This could be: not using “build & burn” practices, failing to automatically spin up (and especially spin down) components as needed, etc.

2. Processing more data than is needed
This could be: the creation of too many environments, badly sized test databases, etc.

3. Having unnecessarily stringent NFRs for non-production
In this could be: the high specification of development or test environments, running batch jobs too often and when not needed.

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