This paper provides 16 actionable techniques to reduce cloud costs while maintaining performance and resilience. Key approaches include rightsizing instances, leveraging spot pricing, using lifecycle policies for object storage, choosing optimal regions, cleaning up unused snapshots, optimizing data transfer, and using cost-aware backup tiering. It stresses the importance of monitoring tools, tagging strategies, forecasting models, and automation to control unpredictable growth. The paper positions cost optimization as a balance between governance, security, and efficient cloud architecture.

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