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Making Every IT Dollar Count: A Strategic Approach to IT Cost Optimization

Making Every IT Dollar Count: A Strategic Approach to IT Cost Optimization

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The 2025 cloud cost optimization report from CloudKeeper analyzes data from 500+ organizations and expert insights to outline current trends, technologies, tools, and best practices for managing rising cloud expenses. It highlights persistent inefficiencies like idle resources and over-provisioned infrastructure, notes that AI-driven analytics and automation can reduce cost spikes and improve rightsizing, and shows that migrating to lower-cost compute (e.g., ARM/Graviton) and adopting serverless can cut infrastructure costs. Multi-cloud cost visibility and FinOps governance frameworks such as FOCUS are increasingly essential. The report also covers evolving commitment strategies, anomaly detection, real-time dashboards, and proactive FinOps practices to improve financial sustainability and performance efficiency.

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