# Next steps
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After you finish reviewing this guide, we recommend that you take the following next steps to implement MACO:

1. **Reach out to a MACO expert.** A MACO expert can help answer your questions and address your concerns. If you're already working with an AWS account team, reach out to the team and request help from a MACO expert. If you don't have an account team, contact [optimize-microsoft@amazon.com](mailto:optimize-microsoft@amazon.com).

1. **Apply the recommendations.** Apply the recommendations, best practices, and strategies that you learned in this guide and from speaking with a MACO expert.

1. **Track costs changes. **Tag your workloads and use services like AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets for detailed cost tracking, monitoring, and control.