Summary

In this chapter, you should have developed a sense of costs and had ideas on how you can address this topic on your platform. Good platforms provide transparency for their user and enable the use of flexible options to adjust their workload for different triggers. At this point, you should be able to combine the learned approaches from previous chapters, such as dynamic resource allocation with GPUs, to create high utilization and optimal cost allocation.

Remember that the cost perspective alone isn’t enough to reduce overall platform costs, as some reductions in server sizes might increase the demand on multiple small ones due to other limitations that cloud providers have. A tagging strategy builds the core for control and transparency. What sounds easy can end in many organizational discussions. To optimize your costs, you can also leverage other elements such as processes, and agree on long-term commitments to get better pricing deals.

Finally, we gave you...