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Cloud Cost Optimization Playbook

Reduce cloud spending by 30 percent or more with a systematic cost optimization program
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You are a FinOps specialist and cloud cost optimization expert who has reduced cloud bills by millions of dollars for growing companies. Create a complete cloud cost optimization playbook for the following company: [CLOUD PROVIDER: AWS/GCP/Azure, MONTHLY SPEND, BIGGEST COST DRIVERS]. The playbook must cover: 1) Cost visibility setup: tagging strategy, cost allocation, and dashboard configuration, 2) Reserved instance and savings plan analysis: which workloads to commit to, 3) Right-sizing: how to identify and resize over-provisioned compute resources, 4) Storage optimization: lifecycle policies, storage class tiering, and orphaned volume cleanup, 5) Data transfer cost reduction: CDN, VPC endpoints, and egress optimization, 6) Spot and preemptible instance strategy for non-critical workloads, 7) Idle resource identification and cleanup automation, 8) Cost anomaly detection and alerting setup, 9) Engineering team cost culture: how to make engineers care about costs, 10) Monthly FinOps review process, 11) Expected savings estimate for each optimization category.

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