Optimizing Cost Efficiency in Cloud-Based Automation with DevOps Techniques
Avni Garg, Tribhuvan Singh, Avni Garg, Asha Rajiv, S. Dhamodaran, Girija Shankar Sahoo · 2025
Cloud automation has created a trend offering several advantages to businesses, including scalability and cost-effectiveness. Although deploying such automation in a cloud setting is fundamental, optimizing its cost efficiency proves challenging, particularly with DEVOPS techniques. DEVOPS integrates development and operations to promote collaboration and automate different parts of the software delivery process. It is also possible to elaborate the DEVOPS techniques by implementing them through cloud-based automation, which can greatly benefit both efficiency and cost. A key area for cost optimization is infrastructure management. By using DEVOPS techniques for the provisioning and deployment of resources, organizations can automate what have previously been tedious and manual processes, which can lead to lower infrastructure costs and more efficiency. Utilization of resources can be enhanced through DEVOPS techniques. Auto-scaling automatically adapts resources based on demand, while load balancing distributes workloads across resources to improve performance and costs. However, one area in which DEVOPS can dramatically enhance companies' cost efficiency is continuous monitoring and optimizing. Automated monitoring tools fire alerts notifying businesses about the most precise area where work is being done inefficiently in real-time, helping companies to save money.