Cloud technology is adopted by many companies due to the greater flexibility and dynamic scalability. To address the complicated pricing scenarios, the financial teams need to work together.
Cloud teams need to collaborate with their finance and accounting counterparts as the organizations are facing budget uncertainties amid the global pandemic. This collaboration can help to effectively control costs. This requires interest and input from employees. Organizations can find themselves spending a lot on the cloud if cloud usage goes unchecked.
Spending a lot on the cloud involves decentralized purchases of cloud services. It can also cause racking up large bills with system integrators including other professional services firms. Spending too much occurs when you spend too much on the cloud. It happens on not using an economical public cloud region or not right-sizing resources and also infrastructure mismanagement, such as phantom resources.
In the cloud, organizations effectively control IT costs differently than they do with traditional on-premises infrastructure. Cloud governance is a cross-functional team pursuit that addresses resiliency, security, and compliance over cloud systems and services. A balance between agility and fiscal responsibility is maintained with the roles and responsibilities of cloud governance.
A new segmentation of roles and responsibilities governs the cloud services due to this approach and takes away cloud control from a centralized body, such as a change control board. Cloud and finance collaboration should be natural for the entire business must assimilate into a cloud culture. A finance team representative is required to develop an organization’s cloud roadmap and forecast expenses.
It is important to understand the impact of key performance metrics or any effects on the organization’s budget when there is a shift to cloud technology. To bridge the gap between departments, a solutions architect with technical infrastructure skills along with grounding in cloud economics is required. To document potential expenses based on business use cases and financial forecasts requires solutions architect to work with the finance team. This helps to produce cloud computing cost savings through the optimization of resources.
A similar hybrid role in the finance department can be created by organizations paying for cloud certifications of finance team members. Money could be saved early by focusing on cloud computing costs.
