ITIL 4 Acquiring Managing Cloud Services Certification Course: Co-create - Cloud Service Consumption

Cloud consumption linked to:

  • Cost
  • Value realization

Cloud consumption is dynamic and accounting practices is static. Organizations need to balance cloud services to:

  • Obtain value
  • Control costs

itil 4
Scenario A Scenario B Scenario C

Consumption aligns with budget: natural cost increases

Cloud adoption blocked:

  • Acceptable in pay-per-use models
  • Wasted capital in enterprise agreements

Over-budget consumption:

  • Poorly-managed cloud resources
  • Cloud architecture problems
  • Mass migration

Optimize consumption costs in real time

Heavy cost control stifles innovation

Open cloud use creates uncontrolled costs

Cloud is pay-per-use unless licensed: variable consumptin costs

On-demand self-service: unapproved provisioning

Cost controls

Budget cycles too slow

Provision cloud through OpEx

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