Problems and Checklists

During cost optimization design, this checklist can help identify areas for improvement and guide their enhancement. Each item in the checklist represents a best practice, which will be explained in detail in the next section.

Question	Checks and Best Practices
COST01 Have you planned organizations and processes according to cost optimization requirements?	1. Plan enterprise organizations, and align the organizational structure, process, and cost management 2. Design a structured IT governance system to optimize management efficiency. 3. Clarify team responsibilities, and cultivate and sustain an organizational cost-consciousness culture. 4. Establish cloud resource and permissions management policies.
COST02 Is there any budget planning and management mechanism in your company?	1. Establish a cloud budgeting and forecasting process. 2. Implement granular budget management and rigorous expenditure tracking.
COST03 Are your costs being properly allocated across organization units?	1. Develop cost allocation principles. 2. Visualize cost allocation results. 3. Allocate shared costs.
COST04 Do you maintain ongoing cost governance practices to optimize your cloud expenditure?	1. Establish governance frameworks to continuously optimize cost allocation ratio. 2. Implement proactive cost monitoring to maintain financial control.
COST05 Have you set strategies and measurable objectives for cost optimization?	1. Analyze service trends and optimization benefits. 2. Establish measurable optimization objectives. 3. Regularly review and verify cost optimization outcomes.
COST06 Have you explored cost optimization through different billing modes?	1. Understand the characteristics of different billing modes on the cloud. 2. Choose the appropriate billing modes for your workloads. 3. Track and monitor the usage of special products.
COST07 Have you implemented comprehensive resource utilization management and optimization processes?	1. Continuously monitor resource utilization. 2. Release idle resources. 3. Conduct comprehensive cloud technology selection analysis. 4. Right-size resources based on workload patterns and resource utilization.
COST08 Does your cost optimization strategy include architectural improvements?	1. Design application architecture with geographic considerations. 2. Implement cloud-native transformation to reduce costs. 3. Adopt storage-compute decoupling to lower costs. 4. Explore the opportunity for using the Serverless architecture for cost optimization.