I wrote previously about cloud pre-migration assessment tools (Movere, Cloudamize..).

Once you are in the cloud, you would need something called a ‘Cost Optimization’ tool.

These tools can range from simply providing consumption costs to actual resource automation, including:

Cloud Health – Automated cloud policies include:

  • When projected costs are about to exceed a monthly budget – set notifications
  • Disable the launch of a Virtual Machine if its CPU  exceeds a certain threshold
  • Terminate a Virtual Machine with incorrect / unauthorized open ports
  • Revoke IAM access to an account that’s logged in from a non-conforming IP address
  • Schedule on/off times for non-production assets
  • Switch Reserved Instances between Regional and Availability Zone scopes
  • Set  alerts about data within frequent access storage volumes that haven’t been accessed recently

Anuj holds professional certifications in Google Cloud, AWS as well as certifications in Docker and App Performance Tools such as New Relic. He specializes in Cloud Security, Data Encryption and Container Technologies.

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