Everyone agrees that the best way to optimize costs is to use applications built for the cloud. These take advantage of dynamic scaling, ephemeral servers, storage tiering and other cloud-native features by design.
"Cloud management needs to be automated using the many tools the cloud providers have to offer,” - Chetan Mathur, CEO of cloud migration specialist Next Pathway Inc.
You can read the full article here: Why your cloud computing costs are so high – and what you can do about them