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Next Generation of Cost Reallocation: Leveraging APIs to Programmatically Manage Cloud Spend

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about The Art of True Chargebacks and how VMware Tanzu CloudHealth makes simple work of the cost reallocation of cloud expenses. In addition to being a refresher on cost reallocation with Tanzu CloudHealth, it was also shared as a kickoff of our newly released cutting-edge Cost Reallocation API. This officially available API revolutionizes the seamless automation of chargeback reallocation across diverse geographies, brands, business units (BUs), and product lines.

How Much Does Slack Spend On AWS?

The Slack messaging app is popular because it is easy to use, affordable, and highly customizable. With Slack, you can collaborate in teams and with colleagues in real-time, accessing files from anywhere. Slack is also widely used because it enables users to create and join channels. In addition, it integrates with multiple apps and services, working seamlessly with the tools you already use. In addition, Slack offers cost-effective pricing plans.

CloudZero Introduces New Optimization Workflow To Help Engineers Find, Act On, And Track Savings

CloudZero’s overarching goal is to help companies maximize the return on their cloud investment. To do that, it’s essential that engineers be accountable for their cloud costs. They must prioritize cost equal to quality and security and keep costs in check from the earliest days of development through the most advanced stages of production. Year after year, getting engineers to take action tops the list of challenges FinOps practitioners face.

Optimize cloud costs while delivering flawless digital experiences

Learn how new modern application optimization modules built on the Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform can help you solve cloud cost and resource optimization challenges for your Kubernetes workloads. Controlling unpredictable cloud cost and resource utilization has become critical for organizations to ensure the profitability of modern workloads.

How Much Does Capital One Spend On AWS?

Capital One offers a variety of financial products, such as credit cards, financial accounts, and auto financing. Now, Capital One might appear as a leading financial institution. But it views itself as a technology company that provides financial services — rather than a financial services company that uses technology. Capital One has differentiated itself as an innovator throughout its 30-year history.

What Are S3 Lifecycle Rules And When Should You Use Them?

Amazon Simple Storage (S3) has become a cornerstone in the world of cloud computing, offering scalable and secure object storage solutions for a wide range of applications. However, as data accumulates over time, managing it in an efficient manner becomes a challenge. This is where S3 Lifeycle Rules shine. These rules allow us to automate the transition of data between different storage classes and even schedule automatic deletions, which allows users to optimize costs and operational efficiency.

Why Cloud Unit Economics Matter

In our first blog post, we introduced the concept of cloud unit economics—a system to measure cost and usage metrics. It helps maximize cloud value for better outcomes per dollar spent. We reviewed what cloud unit economics is, why it’s crucial to FinOps success, and how it enables organizations to unlock the full business value potential of cloud computing.

Discover the Root Cause of Your Cloud Spend Issue

If you’re sick with a cold then measuring your body temperature is a wise move or maybe if things are really bad a visit to a doctor might result in testing vs. what are considered “normal” levels in order to diagnose the issue; seasonal flu or infection? To improve our health after picking up a bad bug, we do things that affect our situation back to normal levels once again where we can then declare ourselves healthy.

Why is Spark So Slow? 5 Ways to Optimize Spark Today

When Apache Spark works well, it works really well. Sometimes, though, users find themselves asking this frustrating question. Spark is such a popular large-scale data processing framework because it is capable of performing more computations and carrying out more stream processing than many other data processing solutions. Compared to popular conventional systems like MapReduce, Spark is 10-100x faster.