The whitepaper outlines seven best practices for public cloud cost optimization, emphasizing early strategy development, governance, and workload management. It identifies common challenges such as excessive user access, uncontrolled resource usage, and underutilized assets that drive up costs. Key recommendations include rearchitecting applications, using role-based access controls, consolidating billing, and employing cost management tools like tagging and monitoring. Insight’s Cloud Optimization Services for AWS provide tools such as CloudCheckr for cost control, security, and governance, helping organizations improve efficiency, reduce spending, and enhance operational visibility.

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