This ebook explains why many organizations fail to realize expected cloud ROI due to limited cost visibility, weak governance, resource sprawl, and misaligned architectures, citing Aptum research that 57 percent saw higher than expected cloud costs and 35 percent reported wasted spend. It presents nine practical steps to regain control: improve cost and workload visibility, identify and fix under-utilized resources, implement strong tagging and budgeting, use reserved or spot instances selectively, automate scale-in and scale-out, enforce governance policies, re-evaluate design choices (including storage tiering and data egress), balance cost with reliability and security, and consider managed services to apply specialized expertise and continuous optimization.

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