5 collocation exercises on cloud cost and FinOps verbs.
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The FinOps team will ___ cloud spend by identifying and removing idle resources.
To optimize cloud spend means to reduce costs while maintaining performance, by removing waste and choosing efficient configurations. Optimize is the standard FinOps and cloud cost term, behind "cost optimisation" reports in AWS Cost Explorer and GCP. Reduce down, cut back, and shrink up are informal. Engineers say "optimize cloud spend using rightsizing recommendations," so optimize cloud spend is the correct collocation for the systematic effort to reduce infrastructure costs.
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AWS recommends that teams ___ oversized instances to match their actual workload patterns.
To rightsize an instance means to select the smallest instance type that still meets the workload's requirements, avoiding over-provisioning. Rightsize is the precise FinOps term, as in "rightsizing recommendations" in cloud cost tools. Resize down, shrink over, and reduce size are informal or imprecise. Cloud providers offer "rightsizing advisors," so rightsize instances is the correct collocation for choosing the optimal resource size to balance performance and cost.
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The team decided to ___ one-year Reserved Instances for the stable database workloads to save 40 per cent.
To reserve capacity means to purchase cloud instances with a commitment (one or three years) in exchange for a significant discount. Reserve is the precise cloud billing term, as in "Reserved Instances" (AWS) and "Committed Use Discounts" (GCP). Book in, lock up, and pre-buy are informal. Engineers say "reserve instances for the production database cluster," so reserve capacity is the correct collocation for making a time-based commitment to reduce on-demand cloud costs.
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The team will ___ GPU capacity in a specific region ahead of the training run to guarantee availability.
To provision capacity means to create or reserve compute resources before they are needed. Provision is the standard infrastructure term, behind "capacity provisioning" and "auto-provisioning." Book is close but used in less technical contexts, and hold out and secure up are not real collocations. Engineers "provision GPU instances ahead of the training job," so provision capacity is the correct collocation for allocating resources in advance to ensure they are available when required.
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The cloud architect will ___ budget to each team based on their expected usage for the quarter.
To allocate budget means to assign specific spending limits to teams or projects. Allocate is the standard financial and FinOps verb, behind "budget allocation" and chargeback models. Give out, hand down, and distribute over are informal. Finance teams "allocate cloud budget per business unit," so allocate budget is the correct collocation for formally assigning spending authority to teams within a FinOps or cloud governance framework.