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SQS Vs. SNS: Choosing The Right AWS Messaging Service

Jul 30, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Picture this. You recently shipped a new feature, and things were working smoothly — until they didn’t. Now, one service is timing out. Another is overloaded. You dig in and realize the issue is with how your systems communicate. Messages are not arriving when or where they should. Your team had set up Amazon SNS for notifications and Amazon SQS for processing tasks. But somewhere along the way, the difference between SQS vs. SNS (and how they’re wired together) got lost in translation.
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FinOps Is Not A Side Hustle

Jul 30, 2025 By David Aponovich In CloudZero
When rideshare drivers talk about a “side hustle”, they mean working a few hours on weekends to make extra cash. That’s fine for pocket money, but it’s catastrophic when the “hustle” is controlling your cloud and AI spend. Right now, too many companies run FinOps the way they run the office coffee pot: A volunteer refills it when things look empty.
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DevAIOps: A Call To Action For The Heroes Among Us

Jul 29, 2025 By Adam Tankanow In CloudZero
The year is 2025, and I’ve been watching teams discover what happens when you give developers AI superpowers without giving them AI super-governance. It’s like the merchandising scene from Spaceballs: “Vibe Coding: The Flamethrower. The kids love this one.” But here’s the thing: I’m not here to take away the flamethrowers. I’m here to hand out fire extinguishers and maybe suggest we practice in a safe room instead of the living room.
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Azure Reserved Instances: Saving Smart, Maximizing ROI

Jul 25, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Many teams buy RIs with the best of intentions (predictability and up to 72% savings) only to realize later that they’ve either overcommitted or left money on the table. Without clear visibility, what starts as a smart cost-saving move can slither into silent waste. This guide will help you get ahead of that. We’ll walk you through the ins and outs of Azure Reserved Instances, compare them to other savings options, and share best practices to help you avoid common pitfalls.
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How To Sell Cloud Cost Optimization To Your CFO

Jul 24, 2025 By Greg Barrette In CloudZero
You know you’re bleeding money in the cloud. Maybe not everywhere, but enough to feel it. Your engineers know it too. You’ve got idle resources humming away, AI workloads scaling like wildfire, and nobody can quite explain why last month’s bill jumped by 17%. So, you bring up the idea of investing in a cloud cost optimization product. Cue the skeptical glance from your CFO.
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How To Hire In FinOps: Roles, Responsibilities, Skills, Interview Questions, And More

Jul 23, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
FinOps is booming as a function. The global cloud FinOps market will grow from $13.5 billion in 2024 to $23.3 billion in 2029 — a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.4%, according to Research and Markets. That’s in response to sharp increases in cloud spend. About $723 billion is expected to be spent on public cloud services in 2025, up from $596 billion the year before according to a Gartner report.
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Building Systems For AI: Lessons On Governance From DevOps History

Jul 22, 2025 By Adam Tankanow In CloudZero
In 2008, Nuance hired me to join their Healthcare Speech Recognition team as a “Release Engineer.” DevOps wasn’t a thing yet — Patrick Debois and Andrew Shafer wouldn’t hold their first “DevOpsDays” until 2009. But I was lucky that “Release Engineer” at Nuance meant “jack of all trades” who wrote Makefiles, bash scripts, Perl, and Java to build and release code to a fleet of hundreds of on-premise Linux machines.
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Streamlining multi-cloud complexity with unified observability

Streamlining multi-cloud complexity with unified observability

Jul 21, 2025 By ManageEngine In ManageEngine
A wave of businesses are embracing multi-cloud strategies to gain flexibility and scalability. By combining on-premises infrastructure, private clouds, and public platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IT teams can experiment, deploy, transform, and improve their IT applications significantly. On the down side, this modern IT approach of employing multiple clouds (in both public and private forms) also brings significant complexity, making it challenging to monitor systems, control costs, and secure environments. There are just too many threads to track and tie together to ensure a taut IT fabric.
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Build Smarter With Cloud-Native Tools: Your 2025 Guide

Jul 21, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Cloud-native tools promise speed, scalability, and resilience. The catch is you have to pick the right ones and use them well. Without the right foundation, they can mean more complexity, hidden costs, and a false sense of control. In this guide, we’ll help you avoid that trap. From infrastructure to observability and CI/CD tools, we’ll cover the solutions shaping modern cloud stacks.
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