Technology professionals see their Cloud journey as an ever-changing opportunity to fine tune data-computing workloads for performance, system, costs, availability and energy efficiency. The decision process is no longer an IT department prerogative but rather a corporate user call with a credit-card and ‘I want what I want’ intent.

Most IT enabled organizations have a support division which provides centralized services for cloud provisioning. Their division’s success can be measured by knowing how metered resources were strategically and tactically placed or replaced due to consolidation, upgrades or decommissioning.

Below diagram depicts few scenarios for optimization opportunities.