Many businesses are often surprised by how much their cloud costs can add up, but the good news is that there are easy ways to bring those numbers down. In this piece, we explore cost-saving hacks that will help your budget breathe easier.
Track budgets with cost management consoles
Start by using the built-in cost management tools offered by cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

Microsoft isn’t always the first company that pops into mind when talking about virtualization, but it does offer one of the best solutions in the industry. In an ongoing effort to compete with companies like VMWare and Amazon Web Services, Microsoft has released a massive upgrade for its virtualization platform -- and it’s totally free!
Azure: Microsoft’s virtualization platform
As a full-service cloud solution, Azure is a secure and flexible data center that businesses of all sizes can benefit from.

Virtualization has moved out of the server farms owned by big-name enterprises and onto the wishlists of small- and medium-sized business owners. As a subset of virtualization, container technology is benefitting from this commercialization and becoming more accessible to everyone.