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Cloud technology has become the focus of attention for organizations looking to increase productivity, scale up business goals and maintain cost-efficiency.

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Its regular optimization and security processes help match organizational targets with the added benefits of improved flexibility and accessibility, qualities bound to continue gaining focus in the future or work.

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As with any information technology, cloud computing involves the risks of reduced performance, lack of reliability, and environmental unsustainability if proper controls are not set in place. That’s where cloud management platforms come in. 

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What is cloud management?

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Cloud management refers to the management of all cloud infrastructure such as hardware, virtualized software, storage components, and networking servers. The control of resources and assets is employed for public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.

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Some well-known cloud infrastructures that you may be familiar with include software-as-a-service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), and Platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Google Drive is another popular favorite that manages your data through cloud storage.

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Typically, cloud management consists of:

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Cloud management enables self-service measures for improved flexibility where IT specialists can access cloud-based resources, track usage, and allocate resources.

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With remote teams entering the new era of the workforce, cloud management services (CMS) can automate workflows, assist with remote desktop software, and secure data with greater compliance.

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Cloud management also includes cloud analysis which helps monitor workloads and user experiences. Depending on the size and complexity of business requirements, they can manage cloud services for testing performance, backup options, recovery systems, and monitoring logs.

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Why is cloud management important?

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Since the last year, most businesses have managed their resources and operations with the cloud through cloud migration. This shift will continue to rise soon, with companies adapting to grow their performance and revenue by automating operations and processes.

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Cloud management platforms are an integral part of managing cloud resources and infrastructure. Here’s how they help in business operations.

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Cloud management is the best approach to adhere to cloud optimization practices. It heavily cuts down on user chargeback and billing costs since it essentially acts as a guide to navigating between different vendor pricing models. Cost efficiency is also maintained by choosing the right size of cloud applications for your business.

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One of the significant goals of cloud management is also to improve application performance through relevant tools and cloud architecture by reducing energy consumption. 

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In a nutshell, CMS allows businesses to gain more control over their public cloud environments while minimizing costs, increasing security, and using expert knowledge to promote user efficiency with little to no human assistance.

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How do cloud management platforms help?

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A cloud management platform (CMP) or cloud management tool is software that incorporates a collection of features or modules that allow various cloud environments to be controlled. Cloud management platforms are significant because a simple virtualization management console cannot control public, private, and hybrid clouds at once.

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To maximize resources and service usage, businesses should adopt cloud management platforms to optimize invested cloud infrastructure. 

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Key features of cloud management platforms

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CMPs are tools that sit above cloud platforms such as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service), and PaaS (Platform as a Service). They can quickly gather business tools, processes, and technologies, to promote cloud environment management. 

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  1. Self-service management:\nCloud management platforms support managing cloud resources and assets through self-service. This essentially means that organizations can provide resources for themselves without using a predetermined amount. CMPs help decides if the resource allocation is in sync with the cloud environment requirements.
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  2. Task automation:\nOrganizational productivity depends on reducing challenging tasks and eliminating the chances of duplicity and error to manage tasks efficiently. Cloud management platforms can automate repeatable tasks through different architectures and policies.
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  3. Reduced cloud costs:\nManaging expenses of cloud resources and infrastructure is necessary to maintain the financial health of a company. Cloud management platforms are built to monitor resource expenditure to help you track exactly where and how funds are being spent. This dramatically reduces unnecessary operational costs. 
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  4. Easy cloud governance:\nWith the cloud, a single piece of data can be accessible to anyone if there is a lack of constant data checks; Cloud management platforms can simplify this governance through all security levels. They enable an environment that creates and implements required policies and compliances. This provides added control over assets and access. 
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Better management equals better performance

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Managing your cloud services is a great way to manage several infrastructures at once. Using cloud management platforms makes this even simpler by giving you a one-stop-shop for all your operational, financial, storage, and privacy needs for cloud environments.

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The GitHub CLI is a recent GitHub released tool that takes tasks of issue / PR management to the terminal. It will be a useful tool that will put more of our workflow for software creation into the textual domain rather than the visual domain. It’s just called gh.

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**Installation of GitHub CLI 💡**

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GitHub CLI has releases with significant operating systems, visit the installation page and find instructions on how to install GitHub CLI for your operating system.

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For [Windows] and [macOS], you will use the package managers to update and maintain GitHub CLI, and for Linux users, you may need to grab the software from the latest release website.

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Here are examples of the installation instructions for each compatible platform:

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→ Windows

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scoop bucket add github-gh https://github.com/cli/scoop-gh.gitscoop install gh
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→ macOS

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brew install github
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→ Debian/Ubuntu Linux

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sudo apt install git && sudo dpkg -i gh_*_linux_amd64.deb
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→ Fedora/Centos Linux

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sudo yum localinstall gh_*_linux_amd64.rpm
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→ Arch Linux

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yay -S github-cli
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You’ll need to authenticate your account after you install GitHub CLI. Running any command would activate this process of authentication(via OAuth). Well, you can use Git CLI.\n\n \n \n

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**What is CLI really doing? 🤔**

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The GitHub CLI lets you handle issues/ PRs / repositories from inside your console. Let’s have a look at it:

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gh issue [status, list, view, create]\ngh pr [status, list, view, checkout, create]\ngh repo [view, create, clone, fork]\ngh help
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It should be said that gh is not the same stuff as git. It’s because gh just adds GitHub tools to the terminal. Version management is yet to be managed with git.

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**CLI Commands ➫**

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We’re going to cover a bunch of exciting commands. Let’s use the official Angular.js repo to run gh commands

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Clone the Angular repo, and navigate to the repository. You can either clone the repo through HTTPS/ ssh/ Git CLI. I’m going to clone the repo through git CLI since we are working on GIT CLI.

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Let’s execute the $gh issue --help see what commands are available.

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gh issue --help  \nWork with GitHub issues\nUSAGE\n  gh issue <command> [flags]\nCORE COMMANDS\n  close:      Close issue\n  create:     Create a new issue\n  list:       List and filter issues in this repository\n  reopen:     Reopen issue\n  status:     Show the status of relevant issues\n  view:       View an issue\nFLAGS\n  -R, --repo OWNER/REPO   Select another repository using the OWNER/REPO format\nINHERITED FLAGS\n  --help   Show help for command\nARGUMENTS\n  An issue can be supplied as an argument in any of the following \n  formats:\n  - by number, e.g. "123"; or\n  - by URL, e.g. "https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/issues/123".\nEXAMPLES\n  $ gh issue list\n  $ gh issue create --label bug\n  $ gh issue view --web\nLEARN MORE\n  Use 'gh <command> <subcommand> --help' for more information about a command.\n  Read the manual at https://cli.github.com/manual
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It’s Time to view Problems/issues in the angular repo.😁

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gh issue list
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*Let’s view an individual pr:*

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I’m going with the first pull request #38899. Through gh cmd $ gh pr view 38899.

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refactor(compiler): simplify visitor logic for attributes\nDraft • atscott wants to merge 1 commit into master from testrefactor\nLabels: cla: yes, comp: compiler, state: WIP, target: patch\nMilestone: needsTriage\nThe logic for computing identifiers, specifically for bound attributes can  \n  be simplified by using the value span of the binding rather than the source span.\nView this pull request on GitHub: https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/38899
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**Repository 🤖**

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Let’s execute the $gh repo --help see what commands are available

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Work with GitHub repositories\nUSAGE\n  gh repo <command> [flags]\nCORE COMMANDS\n  clone:      Clone a repository locally\n  create:     Create a new repository\n  fork:       Create a fork of a repository\n  view:       View a repository\nINHERITED FLAGS\n  --help   Show help for command\nARGUMENTS\n  A repository can be supplied as an argument in any of the following formats:\n  - "OWNER/REPO"\n  - by URL, e.g. "https://github.com/OWNER/REPO"\nEXAMPLES\n  $ gh repo create\n  $ gh repo clone cli/cli\n  $ gh repo view --web\nLEARN MORE\n  Use 'gh <command> <subcommand> --help' for more information about a command.\n  Read the manual at https://cli.github.com/manual
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It is better to clone a repository using the gh command than with the git command. I have done this above. Only through gh cmd, I have cloned angular repo.

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$ gh repo clone angular/angular\n$ gh repo fork\n- Forking angular/angular...
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Start functioning. You should create a new PR after this ($gh pr create)! It’s sort of remarkable that all of that element is now available in the terminal!😍

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**Gist 🐱‍🚀**

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It is now simple to create a gist on GitHub from the terminal using the CLI cmd.

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gh gist create < file >
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**Conclusion🙀**

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Git CLI's primary objective is to \"minimize context switching\" by allowing you to continue inside your terminal/console, rather than opening your browser to access GitHub. For additional functionality and knowledge on using the current resources, you may link to the manual.

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Cloud Cost Optimization is the method of reducing the total cloud spending by finding mismanaged capital and scale-up of Right Sizing computing services. CCO only charge for the services you use, the cloud gives companies infinite scalability and lower IT costs.

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  1. As per Gartner report cloud cost optimization is the first factor that will impact cloud adoption in 2020. Also Gartner predicts \"75% of midsize and large organizations will have adopted a multi-cloud and/or hybrid IT strategy in 2021.\"
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  2. As per G2 \"General necessity for a broad hardware stack will fade away as solutions become increasingly cloud-driven, virtualized, and software-defined. “Appliance-attached” solutions will decline in favor of dedicated, pure software solutions performing similar functions.
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Infrastructure Journey

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On-Premise

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On-Premise Infrastructure was only option around 10 years ago but managing On-premise Infrastructure include the extra cost with other challenges, Challenges are Network, Hardware, Cooling, Power, Space also needed technical staff for taking care all infrastructure

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Colocation

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The Colocation is when a business places its own server in a third-party data center and uses its infrastructure services. Colocation takes responsibility for Network, Hardware, Cooling, Space also business not need to worry about technical man force for managing servers

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Still business have more challenges OS software, Application security, Data storage

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Cloud

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The Cloud service provider is providing solutions for all the challenges. The cloud service provider takes total responsibility for hardware, network, space, power, maintaining, and security also they are managing all technical workforce for the whole infrastructure

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Choose the Right Cloud Provider

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Cloud infrastructure is increasing day by day. Choosing the right cloud provider is the most important decision for long term success. The big three cloud providers are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These three cloud providers are providing mostly services so they might be confused about choosing the right cloud provider. We can easily evaluate the right cloud provider from the following steps

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Discounted Instances

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All Big Cloud Providers are providing discounted Instances or spot instances. Spot instances are unused instances. Cloud Providers offered up to 90% discount on these instances compared to on-demand or reserved instances. The majority of organizations have some workloads that are not critical, We can reduce the cost for not critical workload by using spot instances. AWS, Azure, and Google (GCP) all provide the option to use Spot Instances.

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Identify Instance Right Size

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Identify the right size for the Instance, not an easy task. We need to configure multiple matrices in our cloud service provider. Key metrics to look for are CPU and memory usage. Identify instances with a maximum CPU usage and memory usage of the month.

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How to Check Metrics

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Generally, people make mistakes during checking metrics. Most of the people prefer averages in monitoring but averages mislead the measurement. Let understand this by example

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You are running an online technology tutorial site. Suppose 1million active users on your website in normal days. Now you are hosting weekly technology webinars in your platform. During webinars time your platform traffic should increase. At that time CPU usages and memory usages should be high compared to the rest of the time. Now suppose you have checked the 24 hours average CPU usages and memory usages. It was around 40% and you have decided this is underutilized and scale down the lower size instance. It can impact you 5% - 10% traffic Let’s look at a real-world example. This chart shows the overall CPU usages

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First Image showing Average CPU utilization. You can see Maximum CPU was 18.6 %

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Now, let’s check the CPU 99th percentile:\n\n \n \n

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As expected, the 99th percentile is higher than the average. 99th percentile is around 93%

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The conclusion is We need to always check the 99th percentile. The average can mislead and it can impact your users.

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Creating Underutilization Alarm

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We can create different types of resources and applications utilization monitoring matrix and based on the data we can configure multiple alarms. You can configure notification or alarms on email, SMS from the Cloud provider dashboard. you can also configure alarms that automatically stop or terminate EC2 instances or VM when instance unused or underutilized according to the configured threshold. During the development or some POC as a developer or devops person we have to create some instances or resources but sometimes we forgot to terminate the instances or resources. You can minimize the this extra cost by creating a group of alarms that sends an email notification to developers whose instances have been underutilized or ideal for some hours, then terminates an instance. It will save the overall infra cost. different cloud providers provide different ways for creating these type alarms

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Creating time based actions

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You can save around 75% cost for your Non - Production Development, Staging, and QA environment. Non - Production environment generally needed during working days. You can turn off these servers during off-hours. Cost-saving depends on the infrastructure size, it can be hundred, thousands of dollars

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You can create automation scripts for infrastructure deployment. Schedule the script in your cloud provider

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In-memory cache Storage

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Application in-memory cache reduces the cost of transferring data in the network and overall application performance because reduce the traffic between the database servers or any other external application reduce the network level cost in the cloud also caching improves the efficiency and accessibility of data that used repeatedly or frequently accessed. Suppose your application is fetching user configuration or settings in every request from the database server. You can keep this type of configuration, which is not changing frequently in the in-memory cache. it will save a lot network-level cost

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Data Transfer Cost Optimization

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Data Transfer cost mostly hidden or Some time we don't take care of it. Generally, data transfer is free in the same region between different services Storage, Compute service, etc.\nIf you do a lot of cross-region transfer, it will increase your network data transfer cost also if you will deploy multiple services in the same region it will improve application performance

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Cost visibility

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This includes knowing what you spend in detail, how specific services are billed, and the ability to display how (or why) you spent a specific amount Here, keep in mind key capabilities such as the ability to create shared accountability, hold frequent cost reviews, analyze trends, and visualize the impact of your actions on a near-real-time basis. You can also use cost controls like budget alerts and quotas to keep your costs in check over time.

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Consider a Multi-Cloud Architecture

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Enterprises or Mid Level companies are adopting multi-cloud infrastructure. Consider this recent prediction from IDC: “By 2020, over 90% of enterprises will use multiple cloud services and platforms.” Or this one from 451 Research: “The future of IT is multi-cloud and hybrid with 69% of respondents planning to have some type of multi-cloud environment by 2019.”

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Benefits of multi-cloud Architecture

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Conclusion

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Organizations need to develop a cost optimization culture and awareness. Cost optimization is an ongoing activity in the organization. Need to decide someone responsible for the cost optimization it can be an Engineering team or DevOps team. Most cloud providers provide billing alarm’s they can alert you in case of cost increment also we can configure budget in the Cloud provider dashboard.

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With Information Technology becoming more and more Cloud based nowadays (due to industry demanding reliability and scalability in their infrastructure), the Cloud storage system has become a very feasible solution. Various organizations are migrating their data to cloud storage, due to a few simple reasons. They want data to be easily accessible, cost effective and reliable.

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**How is Cloud storage better than any traditional  data storage**

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**Use Case**

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LoginRadius identity storage provides the above solution, LoginRadius is managing its infrastructure on the cloud and has never experienced data breaches or down-times. Infrastructure that makes sure you retain certain vital attributes in the storage is critical, this necessitates your user's identities being stored in an extremely reliable system such as is implemented with LoginRadius identity storage. Utilizing some extremely robust cloud storage providers(Microsoft Azure) LoginRadius offers top of the line availability and reliability of user data.

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