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A Simple Guide To GKE Cost Allocation And Cluster Spend

Jun 11, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero

Running workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) delivers impressive scalability and flexibility. Yet, it can also introduce a tricky challenge: tracking GKE costs accurately. Remember, GKE costs rarely scale linearly. Overprovisioned nodes, idle autoscalers, and orphaned workloads can quietly balloon your bill in the background. And while GKE’s native tools offer some visibility, they often miss the full picture.

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Achieving Comprehensive Network Observability for VMware Cloud Foundation

Jun 11, 2025 By Nestor Falcon Gonzalez In Broadcom

Private cloud infrastructure adoption is accelerating rapidly. This move is driven by the ongoing “cloud reset” as leaders rethink their hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, seeking greater control, security, and flexibility for their IT workloads. As a matter of fact, leaders in 69% of organizations are considering repatriating workloads, and one-third already have.

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How To Visualize BigQuery Data in Grafana

Jun 11, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana

Ready to bring your BigQuery data into focus? In this Grafana Quickstart, Shawn Pitts walks through how to connect Google BigQuery to Grafana Cloud using the official plugin — available on all tiers, including Cloud Free.

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A Roadmap To AWS Savings Plans Vs. Reserved Instances

Jun 10, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero

A decade after launching Reserved Instances (RIs), Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans as a more flexible alternative to RIs. AWS Savings Plans are not meant to replace Reserved Instances; they are complementary. SPs and RIs have some significant differences that make each better suited to specific uses. For example, while Savings Plans apply to both EC2 and Fargate instances, RIs only apply to EC2 instances. Let’s break down AWS Savings Plans vs.

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Azure Budget Planning: Simplify Cost Management and Forecasting

Jun 10, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360

The video introduces the new Turbo 360 feature designed to simplify Azure budget planning for teams. It highlights how team managers can easily manage and project costs, input monthly records, and adjust budgets based on upcoming projects, all while minimizing reliance on technical resources. The focus is on enhancing productivity and making financial management more accessible.

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Accelerate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure monitoring with Datadog OCI QuickStart

Jun 10, 2025 By Natalie Wilkinson In Datadog

Datadog’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration enables you to collect metrics and logs from your entire OCI stack and monitor them within a single platform alongside other third-party technologies. Datadog’s new OCI QuickStart is a fully managed, single-flow setup experience that helps you monitor your OCI infrastructure and applications in just a few clicks.

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How to Automate Azure Cost Reports in Minutes?

Jun 9, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360

Reporting Azure costs to stakeholders doesn't have to be a time-consuming task. In this video, Michael Stephenson - a FinOps certified practitioner, introduces a new feature that helps you generate ready-to-use PowerPoint reports—so you can walk into any meeting with clear insights on your team's Azure cost performance. From cost trends and anomalies to right-sizing recommendations, the Executive Summary Report gives you a complete picture in minutes. It's all about making Azure cost optimization easier, faster, and more actionable.

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Top Cloud Cost News From May 2025

Jun 9, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero

It’s summertime and things are heating up — in a good way! Forgive us for being a little self-centered this month. Some exciting things are happening at CloudZero: Ditch your towel and flip-flops because it’s time to dive in.

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How Successful Teams Master Cloud Resource Management

Jun 9, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero

Cloud computing promised speed, scale, and freedom. And it delivered. Engineers can deploy in seconds. Teams can scale globally overnight. But somewhere between all that freedom and speed, control got blurry. Resources piled up. Budgets ballooned. And suddenly, no one could answer the simple question: What are we paying for and why? Cloud resource management is how we reclaim that control, without slowing down.

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Azure Cost Optimization Best Practices - you can actually implement

Jun 6, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360

Explore actionable strategies for Azure cost optimization—helping you move from just monitoring to actually reducing spend. Discover how leading teams are embedding FinOps best practices, leveraging automation, and building a cost-aware culture to keep cloud bills under control.

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