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April 2023

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The 25+ Best AWS Cost Optimization Tools (Organized By Category)

Apr 28, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
While AWS offers significant benefits compared to traditional on-premise infrastructure, its inherent elasticity and scalability tend to give rise to uncontrolled costs. AWS costs can be opaque and difficult to analyze — and without some system of identifying the source of costs and how to manage them — they can quickly undermine your profit margins. However, a number of tools have emerged over the past few years to help organizations manage and optimize their costs.
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Azure Cost Analysis

Apr 25, 2023 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Serverless360 is a Cloud management platform engineered for Microsoft Azure that brings enterprise-grade monitoring, tracing, remediation & governance under one roof. Everything you need to empower your Azure operations teams with more meaningful features and deliver effortless support. Achieve end-to-end tracking on business process flow across Azure resources and hybrid integrations. Get visibility on the integration solution that the functional operations teams need. Improve operational efficiency with a unified view of business transactions.
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Cloud Earnings Season - The Great Cloud Scaledown Of 2023

Apr 25, 2023 By Erik Peterson In CloudZero
It’s cloud earnings week this week for AWS, GCP, and Azure, and I have already heard the pundits warming up the hot takes. Some are even asking if this could be the end of the cloud. My advice to you: Don’t be that person unless you enjoy being horribly wrong. No, I'm not saying that when AWS, Azure, and GCP report their growth that it's going to be anything different than what we expect.
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The Simple Guide To The History Of The Cloud

Apr 21, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
The first person to coin the term “Artificial Intelligence” predicted that someday people would buy software as a utility. The year was 1961 and that person was Professor John McCarthy, a computer scientist at Stanford University. After Salesforce began selling software programs this way in the late-1990s, the good professor witnessed his prophecy come true for over 12 years before his passing in 2011. Yet this is only one aspect of computing in the cloud as we know it today.
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The No BS Guide To Understanding Azure Storage Costs

Apr 19, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
If you have trouble understanding Microsoft Azure Storage pricing, you’re not alone. Azure Storage options can feel like a multi-layered maze of storage account types, tiers, pricing pages, specs — and then some. Yet, understanding your cloud cost drivers begins with looking at where your money goes. Only then can you tell if you are getting value for your money.
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Confidently Manage Multiple Projects with Sentry's New Spend Allocation and Spike Protection

Apr 18, 2023 By Sasha Blumenfeld In Sentry

Today we’re announcing our new Spend Allocation feature and updates to Spike Protection, giving you more control over how your projects consume events. While we’ve made it super easy for teams to add Sentry to their projects, we kept hearing from the community that they wanted more guardrails to ensure their noisy projects don’t eat through their event quota.

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Allan Vermeulen On S3, Jeff Bezos, The Beatles, And Much More

Apr 17, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
As we were planning “Cloud Atlas,” our primary goal was to talk with someone who was “in the room” during the genesis of the cloud. Allan Vermeulen, who worked for Amazon from 1999-2021, and who proposed Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), became that source. Allan is a born engineer. He has always enjoyed building things — whether “out of bits and software or boards and lumber,” Allan takes pleasure in creating useful things.
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AWS Cost Explorer Vs. Cost And Usage Report (Is There A Better Option?)

Apr 14, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
A major problem led Amazon to introduce Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports. Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) users were overspending on services they couldn't quite identify. Before the two cloud financial management tools, the AWS public cloud was like a buffet menu without prices. Engineers could use as many cloud resources as they could get away with (and then some), only to be hit with surprise bills at the end of the month or billing cycle.
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The Dummie's Guide: What Is The Cloud?

Apr 12, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
YouTube. Netflix. Uber. Spotify. TikTok. You name it. You sign up and get your own account. Once you set it up however you want, you can access it from any internet-enabled device, including smartphones and smartwatches. In case your device breaks, is lost, or you switch to a new one, you can still access the account, as well as the settings and information it contained, from another device without having to recreate everything from scratch.
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6 Reasons Why Manual Infrastructure Optimization Doesn't Work

Apr 11, 2023 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
IT spend on big data systems in 2023 is forecasted to be $222 billion (Statista.com: Information spending on data center systems worldwide from 2012 to 2023). Actual monetary cost is just one parameter: infrastructure resources, personnel, and the overall time taken to retrieve big data insights push spending even further.
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How To Spot Cost Inefficiencies In Your Cloud

Apr 10, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
It’s almost impossible to create an optimized cloud system out of the gate and keep it running at a perfect balance over the long term. There’s almost always something that could benefit from some tweaks and adjustments. Cloud costs have a way of creeping up slowly while you’re not paying attention. And if you’re not careful, they can spiral out of control before you realize anything is happening.
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8 reasons customers choose CloudSpend over native cloud billing tools

Apr 6, 2023 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine

CloudSpend-Cloud cost management FinOps professionals often find it difficult to gain full visibility of cost overruns resulting from cloud wastage. MangageEngine CloudSpend is a cloud cost management tool that helps you reduce cloud wastage and save costs. If you are a sysadmin or a FinOps professional and are wondering what CloudSpend does that native cloud billing tools don’t, this article is for you.

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Spot by NetApp's CloudCheckr achieves Cloud Financial Management and Compliance and Auditing Distinctions in AWS Cloud Operations Competency

Apr 6, 2023 By Spot by NetApp In Spot
We’re proud to announce that CloudCheckr, part of the Spot by NetApp portfolio for CloudOps, has achieved the AWS Cloud Operations Competency in the categories of Cloud Financial Management and Compliance and Auditing. With this achievement, the Spot by NetApp portfolio solidifies its position as the industry’s broadest and deepest cloud operations portfolio for customers from enterprises to startups to managed service providers.
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Cloud Atlas, Episode 3: The Big Bang

Apr 4, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
An easy way to understand what the early cloud did is to think of it like a public utility. The same way buildings depend on a common set of utilities — gas, electricity, and water — software projects depend on a common set of services: compute, storage, and database. “Compute” refers to the power it takes to run the software.
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Cloud Atlas, Episode 1: The Cloud Gathers

Apr 4, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
Just about everything you interact with digitally is enabled by the cloud. Whether you’re doom-scrolling on Instagram, binge-watching on Netflix, ride-hailing on Uber, or downloading super-cool cloud podcasts (hint, hint) on Spotify, you’re using the cloud. But most people don’t have any idea what the cloud is, where it came from, or what we, as a species, spend on it.
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5 Essential Things Every FinOps Team Needs

Apr 3, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Every time your company onboards a new client or releases a new product, your cloud bill will grow. In fact, it doesn’t take a large event at all to see a spike. Whenever your company changes direction even slightly, it can affect the bottom line. Add to that factors such as economic inflation and increased demand for high-speed, high-power cloud services, and it may seem like each month’s cloud bill is higher than it was before. If that’s the case for you, you’re not alone.
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