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March 2023

cloudzero

15 Forecasting Tools Every Finance Team Needs (Organized By Category)

Mar 31, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
In financial forecasting, looking at the past helps predict what's possible in the future. You can plan ahead, take informed action, and avoid losing your market advantage. The finance department and other teams examine the relationships between variables to come up with more realistic financial plans. With a vast amount of financial data to analyze, multiple teams to consult, and a range of forecasting techniques to choose from, financial forecasting can be a daunting process.
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Supercharging Your Amazon Investment With EKS And CloudZero

Mar 30, 2023 By Erik Peterson In CloudZero
Kubernetes has been described as everything from “awesome!” to “I regret my life choices,” and with 84% of all Kubernetes cloud workloads running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), it should come as no surprise that AWS created Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to eliminate much of the undifferentiated heavy lifting it often takes to manage. What do companies like about Amazon EKS?
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Three Tech Options To Turbo-Charge Your New Construction Company

Mar 29, 2023 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Launching a new company is a process that is going to leave you with more grey hairs than you started with. You will be putting everything that you have on the line, from your savings to your reputation, but it will all be worth it when that gamble on yourself pays off. Heading into the construction industry is always going to be an uphill struggle, as you will be competing against established firms with long-standing ties to clients. But you will have flexibility on your side, and the chance to incorporate new tech from day one.
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5 DevOps Skills Every Engineer Should Have In The Cloud Era

Mar 27, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
DevOps doesn’t necessarily look like it used to. Engineers used to build software designed for on-prem hardware; they had a specific methodology for efficient production and distribution schedules; and they didn’t interface very much with non-engineers, if at all. Today, all that has been flipped upside-down. Cloud-era DevOps engineers now must possess wildly different skill sets, and some previously non-negotiable skills have faded into the past.
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turbo360

What does CloudCheckr offer for Azure Cost Optimization and its Considerations?

Mar 27, 2023 By Arunprabhu Muthusamy In Turbo360
CloudCheckr is a SaaS application that helps bring visibility and intelligence to help you lower cloud costs, maintain security and compliance, and optimize resources. The platform supports managing costs between cloud providers like AWS and Azure. This article explores the features and benefits of CloudCheckr in Azure.
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cloudzero

CloudHealth Vs. AWS Cost Explorer: The Definitive Comparison

Mar 24, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Both CloudHealth and Cost Explorer have recently rebranded to different degrees. CloudHealth is now VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth. AWS Cost Explorer received a fresh coat of paint for its user interface. But do these traditional cloud financial management tools offer additional features now? And can the help provide the cost visibility you need to reduce cloud spending and improve profitability?
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Pepperdata

How to Benchmark Cloud FinOps Effectively

Mar 23, 2023 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Cloud FinOps is rapidly becoming popular among organizations in today’s digital age due to its ability to help manage financial operations more efficiently. This is because it allows organizations to track, measure, and optimize their cloud spend with greater visibility. It also helps improve operational efficiency by automating numerous financial processes, including billing, budgeting, auditing, and reporting.
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Datadog Cost Optimization: 7 Cost-Saving Best Practices

Mar 22, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
As cloud systems become increasingly sophisticated, you want a cloud monitoring platform that helps you identify, isolate, and fix root-cause issues quickly. Meanwhile, engineering leaders are under increasing pressure to reduce technology costs as the global economic outlook remains uncertain. With Datadog, you can observe, monitor, analyze, and report on the health of your infrastructure, applications, and services, in any cloud, and at scale.
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5 Tips For Managing A Successful Devops Team

Mar 20, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
DevOps, as a combination of development and operations, is the process by which companies build and manage software and deliver it to customers. A good DevOps strategy unites team members around shared goals and gives them the support and tools they need to complete the job well. However, as with many things in the business world, successfully using DevOps principles and managing a cohesive team can be easier said than done. At least a small part of that difficulty comes down to fuzzy definitions.
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5 simple ways to implement cloud cost optimization

Mar 14, 2023 By ManageEngine In ManageEngine
To reduce organizational spending, many organizations successfully migrated their operations to the cloud. However, with rising costs, looming economic downturns, and a proliferation of cloud resources on varied platforms, merely adopting a cloud infrastructure is insufficient. Today, an efficient cloud optimization initiative that can optimize and control cloud infrastructure costs is crucial. This webinar details five ways to optimize your cloud infrastructure costs effectively.
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How CloudZero Unlocks Kubernetes Costs Better Than Anyone

Mar 13, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
For SaaS companies, cloud spending can mean the difference between profit and loss. Staying on top of cloud spend is an absolutely crucial part of running a healthy cloud-based business. But tracking even the relatively straightforward cloud costs from your primary providers can be tricky.
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AWS Lambda Pricing: A Simple Guide To Your Lambda Costs

Mar 10, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
AWS Lambda is an event-driven compute service, which means it executes tasks automatically when triggered by a compute event. This automation also means that your Lambda costs can quickly exceed your budget. That is especially true when you're not familiar with AWS Lambda pricing. In this guide, we’ll discuss the AWS Lambda pricing model, including how billing works, and how to optimize Lambda costs.
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CloudSpend mobile application: Manage your cloud costs anywhere and everywhere

Mar 8, 2023 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine

ManageEngine CloudSpend is a cloud cost management tool that helps you reduce overhead cloud costs using actionable insights. The CloudSpend mobile application enables users to perform actions on the go for their cloud services from their mobile devices. CloudSpend supports AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud services and is planning to launch GCP in the future.

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cloudzero

30+ FP&A Interview Questions To Ask (And What To Listen For)

Mar 8, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Finding trained FP&A professionals isn't too much trouble for most companies. The tricky part is finding a candidate who has the right combination of technical and soft skills for your organization’s needs. The following interview questions will help you find a qualified FP&A professional for your company. Listen to their responses to get a sense of their reasoning, expertise, situational awareness, ambition, and individual attitude towards various aspects of the FP&A profession.
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Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer for Amazon EMR

Mar 7, 2023 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Running your infrastructure in the cloud can lead to wasted resources and ultimately overspending. Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer for Amazon EMR operates dynamically in real time to optimize performance without the need to model your workloads ahead of time, change application code, or platform settings. It provides autonomous optimization continuously, improving resource utilization at both the instance level and with the EMR autoscaler. Watch the full video for a deep-dive on how Pepperdata solves the problem of cloud overspending and resource waste without manual intervention.
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cloudzero

The 6-Step Guide To Rightsizing Your Instances

Mar 6, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
When businesses first transition to the cloud, they often prioritize performance and speed above all else. After all, the cloud is an exciting new world full of nearly unlimited resources ripe for the taking. Sooner or later, however, businesses must face the fact that speed and power come at a high financial price, and sometimes their original choices are not sustainable from a cost standpoint.
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qovery

Kubecost and Qovery Team up to Offer Cost Monitoring for DevOps Teams

Mar 3, 2023 By Albane Tonnellier In Qovery
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Kubecost, a game-changing provider of cost monitoring for Kubernetes clusters. This collaboration marks a new era in efficiency and cost-effectiveness for DevOps teams everywhere. With Kubecost's advanced monitoring capabilities integrated into our own Kubernetes deployment platform, we are empowering organizations to take control of their cloud-native infrastructure like never before.
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datadog

How Delivery Hero uses Kubecost and Datadog to manage Kubernetes costs in the cloud

Mar 1, 2023 By Guto Costa In Datadog

As the world’s leading local delivery platform, Delivery Hero brings groceries and household goods to customers in more than 70 countries. Their technology stack comprises over 200 services across 20 Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EKS. This cloud-based, containerized infrastructure enabled them to scale their operation to support increasing demand as the volume of orders placed on their platform doubled during the pandemic.

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lightrun

Reduce 60% of your Logging Volume, and Save 40% of your Logging Costs with Lightrun Log Optimizer

Mar 1, 2023 By Eran In Lightrun

As organizations are adopting more of the FinOps foundation practices and trying to optimize their cloud-computing costs, engineering plays an imperative role in that maturity. Traditional troubleshooting of applications nowadays relies heavily on static logs and legacy telemetry that developers added either when first writing their applications, or whenever they run a troubleshooting session where they lack telemetry and need to add more logs in an ad-hoc fashion.

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