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5 Tactical Ways To Align Engineering And Finance On Cloud Spend

Finance and engineering both thrive on efficiency. So when companies realize they’re wasting cloud spend, but aren’t sure where or how, both teams become frustrated. It’s remarkable how common this scenario is, particularly in the past five years. Before the pandemic, Gartner reported companies wasted over $14 billion in 2019 on cloud services. During the height of the pandemic and cloud adoption spurt in 2020, IDG reported that 70% of US businesses overspent by as much as 62%.

8 Must-Know Tricks to Use S3 More Effectively in Python

AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is by far the most popular service on AWS. The simplicity and scalability of S3 made it a go-to platform not only for storing objects, but also to host them as static websites, serve ML models, provide backup functionality, and so much more. It became the simplest solution for event-driven processing of images, video, and audio files, and even matured to a de-facto replacement of Hadoop for big data processing.

Application view for Azure Serverless Integrations

We are in a fantastic era of Application Development. Cloud computing is one of the essential adoptions of today. Enterprises solve their complex problems by designing and building Business Applications using Microsoft Azure offerings like Service Bus, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Event Hubs, Relays, Event Grids. Choosing Microsoft Azure offerings to implement a business solution has significant benefits. That sounds fantastic!

Application view for Microsoft Azure Resources

We are in a fantastic era of Application Development. Cloud computing is one of the essential adoptions of today. Enterprises solve their complex problems by designing and building Business Applications using Microsoft Azure offerings like Service Bus, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Event Hubs, Relays, Event Grids. Choosing Microsoft Azure offerings to implement a business solution has significant benefits. That sounds fantastic!

How to Drive Innovation and Agility Using Digital Twins Technology?

In our rapidly changing world, product manufacturing organizations are increasingly searching for ways to improve their efficiency in delivering outstanding throughputs. Digital Twins is becoming an ideal technology solution for manufacturers and process engineers that helps companies to monitor operations in real-time, control and even enable machines to learn, improve and heal themselves.

Monitor AWS FSx audit logs with Datadog

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is a fully managed file storage service built on Windows Server. Migrating on-premise Windows file systems to a managed service like FSx enables organizations to reduce operational overhead and take advantage of the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. But having visibility into file access activity across their environment is key for security and compliance requirements, particularly in sectors such as financial services and healthcare.

How To Create A Cloud Center Of Excellence (CCOE)

Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) is an important milestone in every company’s cloud computing journey. While it is usually not the first milestone — which is focused on delivering value to customers — this milestone is reached as the company grows and scales. Turning ad-hoc cloud initiatives into a company-wide strategy, the CCOE helps the business to manage the cloud process and adopt best practices.

Monitoring serverless applications with AWS CloudWatch alarms

Running any application in production assumes reliable monitoring to be in place and serverless applications are no exception. As modern cloud applications get more and more distributed and complex, the challenge of monitoring availability, performance, and cost get increasingly difficult. Unfortunately there isn’t much offered right out of the box from cloud providers.