Best practice governance and remediation policies
Cloud environment review to drive cost efficiencies
NEC Optimise the Cloud service reviews the fundamental optimisation targets within either your Azure or AWS Cloud environment and then outlines best practice governance and remediation policies to ensure inherent cost efficiency across your organisation from application development, through to production operational management.
The service focuses on delivering real benefits by discovering, analysing and reporting on cost optimisation targets. Using continuous monitoring of Azure & AWS service performance metrics enables identification of idle, unused, un-optimised or underutilised services. The identified services can then be remediated using policy-based workflows used to continually optimise services.

Areas for Optimisation
NEC Cloud Architects will deliver a Recommendations Report detailing suggested optimisation targets. Areas for optimisation that may be reviewed and discussed upon completion of the environment assessment for targeted remediation after consultation with the customer stakeholders are as follows:
Resource tagging and tagging automation review
Idle, unused, underutilised resource configurations
Power scheduling optimisation - start / stop automation
Reserved instance
mismatch resolution
Disconnected services identification
Idle services reporting
for remediation
Reserved instance time commitment
Rightsizing analysis and remediation
Reserved instance
type
Snaphot and Private AMI retention
Stopped services
(storage)
multi-snapshot
duplication
Service Benefits
REDUCE COSTS
Reduce costs by rightsizing your Cloud infrastructure
INCREASE EFFICIENCY
Remove resources no longer attached to other services
REDUCED RISK
Avoid expensive downtime and data loss
IMPROVE GOVERNANCE
Governance with non-intrusive guardrail
Leverage our Expertise
NEC CMP Azure & AWS Cost Optimisation discovers and analyses your Azure & AWS services and gives you the visibility and automation control’s you need to optimise spend and accelerate Cloud agility. Most importantly it provides the cost optimisation workflows to allow you to continually optimise service cost, without manual intervention and not impact application performance.
NEC is a safe pair of hands with a strong heritage of managing and deploying critical services and applications. We can seamlessly manage existing infrastructure and public Cloud workloads to support customer’s journey to Cloud and hybrid environments. We believe in offering our customers the right advice and are not incentivised by Cloud providers to move workloads regardless of whether they are suitable for the Cloud or not.
Top Cloud Challenges for Enterprise
Managing Cloud Spend
Governance
Security
Source: RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report. The top challenges for Enterprise are all very close in how often they are cited by survey respondents.
Spend, Governance and Security are a major challenge for over 80% of respondents.
Cloud Service Categories
CONSULTANCY & ADVISORY SERVICES
IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES
MANAGED
SERVICES
OPTIMISATION
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