Managing cloud costs and maintaining high performance across multi-cloud environments can be challenging. The Recommendations report in ManageEngine CloudSpend is designed to simplify this process, offering tailored insights for AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts. With the right recommendations in place, CloudSpend helps you reduce unnecessary spending, bolster your cloud infrastructure’s reliability, and enhance security.
Challenges faced by multi-cloud teams
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Resource over-provisioning: Many organizations allocate more resources than necessary to ensure high performance, leading to wasted spending on idle or underused resources.
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Unutilized and idle resources : Over time, teams may forget about resources they provisioned, like virtual machines, storage, or unused IP addresses, which continue incurring costs.
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Incorrect pricing plans or reserved instance commitments: Selecting the wrong pricing model (e.g., on-demand rather than reserved instances) can lead to significantly higher costs.
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A lack of visibility and monitoring across services: Organizations often struggle to get a unified view of their cloud spending, leading to uncontrolled costs spread across multiple accounts, services, or regions.
An overview of CloudSpend’s Recommendations report
CloudSpend’s Recommendations report delivers actionable insights on how to optimize your cloud environment. By analyzing your usage data, it generates tailored recommendations in three essential areas:
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Cost optimization: Helps you reduce cloud expenses by highlighting areas of unnecessary spending and identifying opportunities to rightsize resources
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Availability enhancements: Detects potential risks in your infrastructure, providing insights on how to improve fault tolerance and reliability
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Security improvements: Identifies security gaps and offers suggestions on how to fortify your security posture
Each recommendation is categorized by priority (High, Moderate, or Low), allowing you to focus on the most pressing issues first. Whether you’re managing a single cloud or multiple environments, CloudSpend makes it easy to drill down and implement improvements specific to each provider.
Ensuring compliance: A step towards cloud governance
CloudSpend not only helps you optimize costs and performance but also offers compliance checks to assess your cloud infrastructure against industry best practices and international regulations. Compliance is essential to maintaining security standards and protecting sensitive data, and CloudSpend makes it straightforward.
With compliance assessments, you can:
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Identify security risks: Receive alerts for noncompliant practices that might leave your infrastructure vulnerable.
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Get detailed recommendations: Understand precisely where your infrastructure deviates from compliance standards and receive suggestions on how to close these gaps.
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Maintain industry standards: Align your cloud usage with best practices and international standards, such as the GDPR, HIPAA, and other regulatory requirements.
These compliance checks enable you to review your cloud resources in the light of best practice guidelines, helping you stay secure and compliant without an overwhelming amount of manual oversight.
How CloudSpend’s recommendations work
CloudSpend’s Recommendations report is powered by intelligent analysis of your cloud data. Here’s a step-by-step overview of how it generates these insights:
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Data collection: CloudSpend gathers data from your AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts. With Site24x7’s integration, it monitors your cloud usage and performance.
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Analysis of usage patterns: By evaluating trends and patterns in your cloud usage, CloudSpend identifies areas where you might be over- or under-provisioned as well as where potential risks may arise.
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Tailored recommendations: Based on this analysis, CloudSpend generates specific recommendations for optimizing your cloud environment. Each recommendation includes an in-depth explanation of its benefits, potential risks if left unaddressed, and actionable steps.
With this clear, concise report, you can make informed decisions on how to best manage your cloud resources, whether that involves downsizing instances, enhancing security protocols, or reinforcing availability strategies.
Key benefits of CloudSpend’s Recommendations report
The Recommendations report in CloudSpend is more than just a tool; using it is a strategy for long-term efficiency and cost savings. Here are some of the ways it can help you:
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Significant cost savings: By identifying idle resources and suggesting rightsizing options, CloudSpend can help you cut costs and prevent unnecessary spending.
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Enhanced reliability: Availability recommendations ensure your cloud environment remains robust and resilient, minimizing downtime and improving performance.
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A stronger security posture: Security recommendations help you stay ahead of potential vulnerabilities and maintain the integrity of your cloud infrastructure.
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Effortless compliance management: CloudSpend’s compliance checks make it easy to align with best practices, regulations, and standards, reducing the risk of compliance violations.
Start optimizing with CloudSpend today
For organizations utilizing AWS, Azure, or GCP, CloudSpend’s Recommendations report is an invaluable asset in cloud cost optimization. Start by ensuring that your accounts are connected to CloudSpend and Site24x7 so you can access comprehensive insights and recommendations about costs, availability, and security. As cloud infrastructures continue to expand, tools like CloudSpend are essential for staying on top of your cloud usage and maximizing your investments. To learn more, refer to our documentation and schedule a demo of CloudSpend.
