TIVIT specialists recommend careful evaluation, taking into account not only technological aspects, but even the data protection legislation in force in each location
Cost reduction with cloud services can reach 40% or more, point out specialists from TIVIT, a Brazilian multinational and one stop shop of technology. The savings percentage, however, depends on a careful analysis, which takes into account not only aspects directly related to technology, but also involving data protection legislation. "The first thing to do is to assess whether your company's cloud environments can be hosted in a cloud outside the country, such as in the United States, which have a lower price", says Carlos Eduardo Teixeira Maia, Senior IT Executive at TIVIT .
Here are five tips for reducing costs in the cloud:
- Check the storage space you really need
The objective is to keep the relevant and necessary data, maintaining a periodical cleaning process, mainly for the backup data. Knowing the frequency of access is another key factor, since cloud services have different service offerings and with a wide variation in price. Purchased and unused storage is a waste of money. Do a fine-tooth comb on the data, eliminate all obsolete information and evaluate the types of volume used, a very high performance disk is not always necessary.
- Compare your licensing costs with the values of the cloud modality of these same software
If your company works with Office licensing, from Microsoft, for example, you may possibly have better conditions to hire the same solutions in the Azure cloud. The same reasoning applies to other cloud providers such as Google. Cloud providers usually offer advantageous conditions for customers who already consume other of their products.
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Assess whether environments can be stored outside the country
Clouds are priced differently in the global market. In Brazil, they are more expensive than in the United States. There are cloud services up to 50% cheaper in the US market. The solution may be to host the data in a cloud outside the country, but this possibility may not apply to all companies. Insurance companies and banks, for example, have safety and compliance, including those provided for in the LGPD (General Data Protection Law), which may prevent migration to a certain type of data.
Start by using development and staging environments in lower priced regions to test your solutions.
- Analysis of possible modernizations of your application or your environment
Before migrating to a cloud, analyze possible modernizations of your production environment and the technological model adopted. The migration from IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service, in the Portuguese translation) to PaaS (Platform as a Service, in Portuguese) or FaaS (Function as a Service, in Portuguese) can result in significant savings.
Modernizing the application to use on-demand services from the cloud brings resiliency, lower cost and an automated operational process to keep it running smoothly.
- What is the usage time of your applications?
In the view of TIVIT specialists, the ideal for applications that are needed only during business hours or in a specific period, is that the servers that support them can be turned off outside these hours to reduce costs.
