Practice essential collocations for cloud cost management in IT and software development.
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The FinOps team analysed the AWS Cost Explorer report to ___ costs by eliminating idle and oversized resources.
Reduce costs is the standard cloud cost management collocation for decreasing cloud expenditure through resource optimisation. 'Cut along' and 'lower around' are informal. 'Trim out' does not convey the systematic cost reduction approach used in FinOps.
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The platform team set up AWS Budgets alerts to ___ spending in real time across all accounts.
Track spending is the standard FinOps and cloud cost collocation for continuously monitoring cloud expenditure to detect anomalies and overruns. 'Monitor along' and 'watch around' are informal. 'Follow out' is not a standard phrase.
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The engineering director asked each team to ___ budget for the quarter and report on variance monthly.
Allocate budget is the standard financial and cloud cost management collocation for distributing a fixed amount of spending across teams, services, or projects. 'Assign along' and 'divide around' are informal. 'Set out' implies planning rather than the specific act of budget allocation.
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The SRE team used Compute Optimizer recommendations to ___ resources and reduce over-provisioning.
Optimise resources is the standard FinOps and cloud architecture collocation for adjusting cloud resource configurations to deliver the best performance at the lowest cost. 'Improve along' and 'tune around' are informal. 'Fix out' does not convey the iterative optimisation process.
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The team implemented tagging policies and lifecycle rules to ___ waste from forgotten development and test environments.
Avoid waste is the standard cloud cost management collocation for preventing unnecessary expenditure by removing unused or unneeded cloud resources. 'Prevent along' and 'eliminate around' are informal. 'Reduce out' is redundant and not a standard phrase.