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Case study: Cloud budget overage

Case study: Cloud budget overage

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Case study: Cloud budget overage

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- [Instructor] We'll be following a fictitious hammock company through this course called Henry's Hammocks, or HH. They manufacture and sell high-end, comfortable, lightweight, and fireproof hammocks for a growing number of campers. They saw a dramatic increase in business during the pandemic and have had some quick growth in the last few years. As a result, the growth of HH has moved most of their IT assets to the public cloud, including inventory management, production management, accounting, HR systems, in sales order entry systems. HH expected the cost of using cloud based resources to be lower than their traditional approach to owning and maintaining their own hardware and software. They expected their $10 million a year IT budget to be reduced to $8 million a year once their assets are moved to the cloud. However, in looking at their bill from their public cloud provider, they are well on their way to having spent more…

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