Cost & Sustainability

We set capacity for the busiest times, even if it’s not always needed.

We adjust capacity when needed.

Some systems scale automatically.

Most systems scale automatically.

Everything scales automatically.

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Long-running virtual machines (VMs).

VMs with containers or serverless for a few minor things.

A mix of VMs and containers or serverless for some key systems.

Containers or serverless.

We pick the best tool for each job.

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We don’t track sustainability ourselves.

We have some sustainability goals and prefer greener providers.

We measure the environmental impact of our cloud use and set targets.

We monitor sustainability and make changes to improve.

We use automated approaches to optimise sustainability.

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Our finance or management team can see spending reports.

Finance uses billing data to plan spending.

We use some automation to help reduce costs.

Developers can see and consider costs.

We manage cost as a team, get alerts and look for savings.

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Everything in one region.

We use another region for non-production workloads or backup and recovery.

We pick regions based on cost, performance, or sustainability.

We automatically move workloads to different regions to save money or energy.

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