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October 2022

How To Ensure Healthy SaaS Metrics As Your Cloud Costs Grow

Typically, startup founders and executives must meet with their board of directors each quarter to review the progress of the company. They may talk about broad topics such as total costs and total revenue, and use these numbers as a guide to determine which moves the company should make in the near future. Often missing from the conversation, however, is a clear and detailed discussion of SaaS metrics.

How To Unlock Granular Kubernetes Cost Metrics

It can be a challenge to measure costs within a SaaS company. While a business with physical inventory can count the number of items sitting on the shelf and the money needed to create, store, and ship those items, operating within the cloud means SaaS companies have to measure their costs through a layer of abstraction. The number of users a given product supports and the resources needed to keep that product up and running could change by the minute.

Preventing A $70K Cost Spike In 4 Clicks - And Protecting Our Profit (Video)

At CloudZero, the thing we do better than any other cost solution is connect the dots between cloud cost and your businesses. While other solutions offer reporting and dashboards that answer, “How much did we spend?”, CloudZero also enables you to answer “Why?”. Was it because you onboarded a new customer? Did your team push new code? Or did usage of a feature tick up after some clever UX adjustments?

25 Kubernetes Monitoring Tools And Best Practices In 2022

The Kubernetes platform is the standard for orchestrating containerized applications. It’s ideal for large applications running on distributed instances. The problem is that monitoring Kubernetes infrastructure can be notoriously challenging. In this guide, we'll cover Kubernetes monitoring in more detail, including what Kubernetes metrics to track to improve visibility and control over your K8s containers, apps, microservices, etc.

How To Build A Case For Your Cloud Cost Optimization Opportunity

Identifying great business optimization opportunities is tougher than it seems. You often need to weigh the projected revenue and costs of taking a new path against the potential opportunity costs of not taking that path. Not only is this an apples-to-oranges comparison, but also a “what if” scenario riddled with variables. For instance, what if slashing costs makes the customer experience so much slower and more frustrating that sales decline and you wind up losing revenue?

Gain visibility and control of your cloud spend with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

To optimize its cloud investments, your organization needs internal stakeholders to act on shared knowledge about its cloud costs and cloud usage. But in practice, it’s difficult for organizations to gain a high degree of clarity about their cloud spending. The factors contributing to cost data are not normally visible to all stakeholders, and it’s often impossible to attribute costs to the teams, services, and applications that incurred them.

AWS Vs. Azure Pricing: An Essential Guide For 2022

Microsoft's Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are the two most popular cloud providers today. They both offer a variety of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. In addition, you'll find products covering multiple computing areas, such as compute, storage, analytics, and networking. You can also deploy AWS or Azure services in the cloud, on-premises, or as a hybrid setup.

Cost Advisor: Optimize and Rightsize your Kubernetes Costs

Kubernetes has broken down barriers as the cornerstone of cloud-native application infrastructure in recent years. In addition, cloud vendors offer flexibility, speedy operations, high availability, SLAs (service-level agreement) that guarantee your service availability, and a large catalog of embedded services. But as organizations mature in their Kubernetes journey, monitoring and optimizing costs is the next stage in their cloud-native transformation.

Sysdig Cost Advisor: Optimize your Kubernetes Costs

Every company running its applications on the cloud needs to estimate its operating costs, but running workloads on Kubernetes clusters across multiple providers often makes it hard. Without Kubernetes context in the cloud billing reports, users aren’t able to group costs or effectively assign the resources to the proper cost center. To address these gaps in Kubernetes cost monitoring, we are excited to announce Cost Advisor, a new feature in Sysdig Monitor that will give you visibility into Kubernetes costs and automatically help you identify areas to reduce them.

How to track AWS costs with the AWS Cost Explorer app for Sumo Logic

From Sumo Logic’s inception over a decade ago, we made a strategic bet to go all in with Amazon Web Service (AWS). Today, many of our customers rely on Sumo Logic to gain unified visibility into their growing number of AWS services, cut troubleshooting time and unlock comprehensive root cause analysis for complete issue resolution.

12 Cloud Cost Optimization Examples For Your Cost Journey

Setting clear and attainable goals for cloud cost optimization keeps your whole organization on track and working toward a common end. The emphasis here is on clear and attainable. In other words, your team must know where they are headed and have full confidence that they can get there.

SaaS Companies Are Reporting Weaker Margins Than They Need To - Here's Why

SaaS companies are known for their strong margins. With gross margins typically in the 60-90% range, even SaaS companies with comparatively weaker margins have a compelling business model when compared with most other industries. Nonetheless, even a few percentage points of margin can have a huge impact on a company’s valuation and overall success. This chart, taken from a great article by Villi Iltche at Two Sigma Ventures, shows the correlation between gross margins and valuation.

EKS Cost Optimization: 7 Best Practices To Apply Immediately

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) eases deploying and running Kubernetes on the AWS platform. A fully managed Kubernetes service, EKS eliminates the need to install, configure, or maintain Kubernetes nodes or control planes on your own. With EKS, you can leverage the performance, scalability, and availability of AWS infrastructure, along with integrations with multiple AWS compute, storage, security, serverless, and networking services.

Eliminate Data Transfer Fees from Your AWS Log Costs

As businesses generate, capture, and seek to analyze more data than ever before, they often find themselves limited by high data storage costs, expensive data processing fees, and high management overhead. For organizations who wish to expand their log analytics programs and become more data-driven, maximizing cost efficiency has become a critical operational objective.

Fargate Vs. Lambda: The Last Comparison You'll Ever Need

Things are changing. Technology differences between serverless and container-based systems are rapidly blurring. In 2020, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enabled AWS Lambda to package and deploy functions as container images, instead of bundling all of a function’s code and dependencies in a.zip file. Today, more organizations are increasingly deploying Lambda functions as Docker container images. These companies want to reap the benefits of serverless computing, containers, and container orchestration.

The Power Of Combining Kubernetes And Non-Kubernetes Cloud Spend

Whether you’re new to Kubernetes or a bona fide wizard, it may seem like getting any meaningful cost data out of it is a miracle. This is because many organizations that migrate to Kubernetes unwittingly step into the Black Box of Kubernetes Spend. In pre-Kubernetes life, teams could allocate costs by tagging resources.

Anodot Named Momentum Leader on G2's Fall Grid

We are proud to announce that Anodot has been named Momentum Leader on G2’s fall grid for Cloud Cost Management Software. G2 is the largest and most trusted software marketplace. More than 60 million people annually use G2 to make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. G2 is disrupting the traditional analyst model and building trust by showcasing the authentic voice of millions of software buyers.

The 11 Best Docker Alternatives In 2022

Although container-related technology existed before 2013, Docker revolutionized and propelled it into the mainstream. Using Docker, developers could automatically create containers from application source code, share libraries, and reuse containers. Docker enables you to track container image versions, roll back to an earlier iteration, and track who built a specific one. You can even upload only the deltas between two versions.

RDS Pricing Explained: A 2022 Beginner-Friendly Guide

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) enables Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to manage, operate, and scale their databases. A managed service, RDS provides seven database engines and multiple instance sizes and types for working with relational databases. AWS also claims RDS can match the performance, scalability, and availability of commercial databases for a tenth of the price. Is this true, and how much does Amazon RDS cost really? This guide explains how Amazon RDS pricing works.

Making Decisions In The Cloud: Data Vs. Information Vs. Intelligence

Business leaders frequently need to make decisions that could impact the entire future of a company. Armed with pages of data and financial reports, many executives choose to slash costs, double efforts on certain products over others, or otherwise forge ahead with major decisions about cloud usage, spending, and overall business strategy. Great choices could mean huge profits, but unwise choices could spell doom for the business as a whole.