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The last two years have shown that cloud-agnostic organizations faced more brunt in terms of ensuring a smooth BCP when compared to companies who were the early adopters of the cloud. On the other hand, the new age companies that were born in the cloud were not worried about ensuring their operations in such situations.

For jobs and professional networking platform Apna, cloud computing has been an integral part since its inception in 2019.

We run all our workloads on the cloud to leverage the increase in data consumption and smoothen the entire data sharing and accessing experience of users, said Suresh Kumar Khemka, Head of Platform Engineering & Infrastructure, Apna.

By delegating most of our workload responsibility to a cloud provider, we can more efficiently run, virtualize computing resources and enhance daily business operations. Additionally, we leverage the best brand solutions from other vendors to address any specific work needs. Thanks to our acclimatization to the cloud, we have been able to save time, cost and human resources for major organizational tasks while leaving the management and maintenance of IT infrastructure with the service provider, said Khemka.

While vetting the public cloud providers, Apna considered three parameters ease of use, completeness of solution and skill availability. Besides providing core services, our service provider goes the extra mile to add more value to the user experience. We have been able to seamlessly scale up or scale down IT functions as per our business needs, without having to invest hefty amounts in physical infrastructure.

For a company whose 100 percent workloads are hosted on the cloud, optimising cloud costs is something which they have learned to manage smoothly along their journey. Talking about the same, Khemka said the biggest reason why cloud costs highly escalate for many organizations is because they adopt the cloud with the existing mindset of utilizing hardware in a data centre.

Businesses have a view of different cloud costs and choosing the right solution and toolset to manage cloud costs is the real challenge. They should keep a check on the data they are storing and mitigate the chances of bloated cloud environments with data. Moreover, data lifecycle policies can also help in saving money by ensuring unnecessary data is not stored in higher-cost storage classes, he added.

He also pointed out that business policies should focus on moving data from one storage class to another on the public cloud, once its requirements have been fulfilled.

Apna uses FinOps and unit costing to manage its cloud costs. We proactively look at our design and architecture, monitor costs closely and have built in-house solutions to monitor the cost, alongside solutions offered by multiple vendors, Khemka maintained.

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