The Road to 2027Hosting Infrastructure and Cloud Cost Planning

This is a live session on reducing unnecessary hosting infrastructure and cloud spend without giving up performance, reliability, or security. Natalie Mezera will walk through a three-phase framework: understand your environment, optimize it safely, and keep it that way.

The goal is not spending less. It is spending with purpose, and knowing next year's number before next year starts. There is a live Q&A at the end.

This session is built for anyone who owns an infrastructure budget heading into 2027. It is most useful for:

• Manufacturing business owners and operations leaders with small internal IT teams
• Owners and operations leaders at web development, design, and marketing agencies
• IT directors and infrastructure managers
• Finance and operations leaders involved in 2027 technology budgeting

Existing DataYard clients planning next year are welcome as well.

No. The session assumes you do not have a dedicated FinOps practice, a tagging strategy, or a single person who owns cloud cost. That describes most organizations of this size, and the framework is built around it.

You do not need a technical background to follow along, though the material is specific enough to be useful if you have one.

The session stays platform neutral. It focuses on planning strategies rather than any one provider's console, tooling, or rate card, because the same principles apply whether your workloads run in a private cloud, a public cloud, a hybrid environment, or your own data center.

Committed pricing models come up as a concept, but provider-specific comparisons are better handled one-on-one, where we can look at your actual environment.

A computer and an internet connection. The session runs on Zoom, and you will receive a link after registering. No software installation is required.

We will send a reminder the morning of October 20 with your link included.

Yes. We plan to send the recording to registrants within 24 hours, along with the checklist and links from the session. Registering is worth it even if that Tuesday does not work.

That said, the Q&A is where a lot of the value tends to land. It is not scripted, and the answers are specific to what attendees actually ask. If you can join live, we would recommend it.

The 30-Day Infrastructure and Cloud Cost Optimization Checklist is a downloadable worksheet that breaks the framework from the session into four weekly stages, each with its own deliverable.

It maps directly to what Natalie covers, so you can work through your own environment after the webinar rather than starting from a blank page. All attendees receive it.

No. The session is about understanding the infrastructure you already have, not buying more tools. Most of the session covers the framework and the questions to bring into your own budget review.

At the end, Natalie offers a no-cost infrastructure and cloud environment review for anyone who wants help evaluating their current environment or validating their 2027 planning assumptions. Taking it is totally optional, and the ideas from the framework can apply either way.

The information in this session still applies. Visibility, ownership of each line item, right-sizing against real usage, and putting a review on the calendar are budget habits, rather than cloud-specific features.

Placement comes up directly. Optimization is not always about making a workload smaller. Sometimes it is about running it where it makes the most business sense, and on premises can often be that answer.