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Defining roles and responsibilities for cloud cost optimization

If you’re already running in the cloud, the best way to jumpstart your cost optimization initiative is by making sure you have the right governance in place, which will give you immediate cost benefits. Then you can circle back to the process outlined in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure: define your cloud strategy, create your cloud adoption plan, ready your cloud environment, migrate and innovate cloud workloads, then manage and govern your environment.

We’ll outline best practices, both in assigning roles and responsibilities to your teams, and how those teams should take joint action to create a more cost-efficient cloud environment.

Azure Cost Management and Billing gives you a full set of cloud cost management capabilities so you can better understand and control your spending.

Learn more about the teams responsible for cost management and the best practices each of these teams should follow.