During times of uncertainty, organizations often feel that they must decide between guaranteeing continuity of their cloud operations and infrastructure on the one hand, and pursuing long-term strategic plans on the other. This is one common reason why teams fall short of reaching cloud cost and performance optimization goals: They are too busy reacting to day-to-day challenges to make the necessary optimization tweaks over the long term. But as this session explains, it’s possible to square this circle by building transparency for all stakeholders into cost and resource planning.