5 Gründe, Ihren Cloud-Service neu zu bewerten (und Betriebskosten zu senken)

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In today’s media and content delivery landscape, broadcasters, OTT platforms, network providers, and media publishers are increasingly relying on cloud infrastructure to scale and deliver services globally. However, inefficient cloud strategies can result in rising operational costs, from hidden egress fees to vendor lock-in, leaving businesses with bloated cloud bills.

Re-evaluating your cloud service can lead to significant cost savings and improve the efficiency of your operations. G&L Systemhaus, leveraging Akamai Connected Cloud, provides solutions that help reduce costs by optimizing egress fees, scaling with flexibility, and giving you control over your cloud environment.

Here are five reasons why now is the time to rethink your cloud strategy

You could reduce egress costs by up to 90%

For media-heavy workloads, egress fees – the costs associated with transferring data out of the cloud – can be a substantial and recurring expense. These costs often make up a significant portion of cloud spending, particularly for businesses delivering high volumes of video content or live events.

By migrating workloads from traditional cloud providers to Akamai Connected Cloud, G&L Systemhaus has enabled businesses to save up to 90% on egress costs. This cost reduction is a game changer, particularly for OTT platforms and broadcasters that deal with constant data transfer across regions. These savings not only lower your operational costs, but also allow for greater predictability in your cloud budget.

You can avoid vendor lock-In and proprietary tool costs

Cloud vendor lock-in can stifle your business’s flexibility and increase long-term costs. Many cloud providers push proprietary tools and environments, which may require specialized training and limit your ability to move workloads easily between different cloud environments or on-premise systems.

With Akamai Connected Cloud and G&L's approach to cloud management, you can utilize open-source tools and build portable workloads that can be deployed across multiple environments. This avoids the overhead costs of retraining staff or hiring specialists for vendor-specific systems. Additionally, it gives you leverage – should a particular provider’s costs or services no longer align with your needs, you can switch providers without costly disruptions.

You can optimize resource allocation and avoid overprovisioning

One of the most common inefficiencies in cloud environments is overprovisioning, where businesses allocate more resources than needed to avoid performance bottlenecks. While this ensures consistent performance, it can lead to significantly higher costs due to unused compute, storage, and bandwidth.

By leveraging Akamai’s global edge infrastructure, you can dynamically adjust resources based on real-time demand, reducing waste. Edge computing allows you to deploy workloads closer to your end users, improving latency-sensitive tasks like streaming and reducing bandwidth costs. G&L Systemhaus helps organizations scale their resources precisely when and where they’re needed, avoiding the need to overprovision and cutting unnecessary operational expenses.

You can increase flexibility with multicloud and hybrid architectures

Relying on a single cloud provider not only increases your risk of downtime during outages but also limits your ability to meet different regulatory or performance requirements across regions. In many cases, you may need to balance data sovereignty, performance, and cost considerations, which a single provider may not be able to accommodate.

G&L Systemhaus has rearchitected its applications to be modular and portable, enabling seamless integration across multicloud and hybrid cloud architectures. This approach allows businesses to choose the best-fit cloud environment for each workload. For example, media companies can run data-intensive storage tasks on a lower-cost provider while deploying latency-sensitive content delivery on Akamai Connected Cloud’s edge network. This flexibility ensures compliance with data sovereignty laws and optimizes cost and performance for specific business needs.

You can achieve cost transparency and better budget control

Many businesses struggle with the complex and opaque pricing models of traditional cloud providers, making it difficult to accurately predict cloud costs. This often leads to overages and unplanned expenses that strain budgets.

G&L Systemhaus provides customers with transparent pricing and predictable models, ensuring clearer insights into where costs are incurred. G&L Systemhaus further enhances this by continuously optimizing cloud spend for its customers, identifying areas of overspend, and fine-tuning cloud resource allocation to help businesses control their budgets more effectively.

Conclusion

For broadcasters, OTT platforms, network providers, and media publishers, rising cloud costs can quickly become unsustainable. Egress fees, overprovisioning, and vendor lock-in are just a few of the challenges that can inflate your operational expenses. By reevaluating your current cloud provider, you can significantly cut operational costs, improve performance, and position your business for future growth.

Why choose a managed service provider for cloud?

A managed service provider like G&L Systemhaus brings expertise in cloud management, ensuring your infrastructure is optimized for performance, cost, and security. By leveraging an MSP, you can reduce the complexity of managing cloud environments, avoid overprovisioning, and save on internal costs associated with maintaining in-house teams. G&L Systemhaus provides continuous monitoring, proactive support, and fine-tuning to ensure your cloud setup runs efficiently, allowing you to focus on core operations while benefiting from cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions.

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