What is the right was to estimate the cost of moving to the cloud? #M365AMA
In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:
“I have a company looking to move to the cloud, or at least considering it. Right now they have quite a bit of on prem hardware, but are upsizing within the next year or so (likely). Our IT guy says it’s cheaper to NOT be on cloud and gave examples of equivalent server hardware costs and breakdowns compared to our on premise solution where a lot of it has already been sorted out. I generally agree with his assessment when looking at a lift and shift process, but I would like to know how others would approach it, as a general shift to microservices is also happening, meaning low tier used application may be better off as compute items? Also several machines may not be needed 24/7 since they would be internal company only. What is the best way others can think of to come to a pricing evaluation? What metrics do I need? I don’t have metrics for compute on individual applications so can’t say that they would be cheaper all broken into separate apps or not etc. Also unclear about Azure Hybrid Benefit and how that might play into things. I realize there is a lot to cover on here with several edge cases, but looking for general approach (I want to do it myself to make sure I understand it, not looking for a solution per se, so much as information on best process to get the information I need)”
Check out the discussion here:
Participating in this discussion were:
- Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet
- Mike Nelson @mikenelsonIO
- Sean McDonough @spmcdonough
Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:
- How to calculate cloud migration costs before you move, via TechTarget [https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/tip/How-to-calculate-cloud-migration-costs-before-you-move]
- How to Estimate the Cost of Cloud Migration? Factors to Be Taken into Account, via Suvigya Saxena [https://aws.plainenglish.io/how-to-estimate-the-cost-of-cloud-migration-factors-to-be-taken-into-account-ac03244af7d1]
- How to calculate the true cost cloud migration, via NetworkWorld [https://www.networkworld.com/article/3164444/how-to-calculate-the-true-cost-of-migrating-to-the-cloud.html]
- Best practices to cost and size workloads migrated to Azure [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/migrate/azure-best-practices/migrate-best-practices-costs]
