What’s your primary strategy for managing cloud costs in 2025?

Cloud Cost Optimization

Implementing FinOps practices16%

Optimizing workloads for cost-efficiency35%

Negotiating better terms with cloud providers16%

Scaling down unused or underutilized resources11%

Automating cloud monitoring and reporting4%

All of these13%

None of these1%

Something else3%

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Director of IT in IT Services10 months ago

Move VM out of the cloud or rearchitect it to cloud native.

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