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AWS Lambda Pricing: A Simple Guide To Your Lambda Costs

AWS Lambda is an event-driven compute service, which means it executes tasks automatically when triggered by a compute event. This automation also means that your Lambda costs can quickly exceed your budget. That is especially true when you're not familiar with AWS Lambda pricing. In this guide, we’ll discuss the AWS Lambda pricing model, including how billing works, and how to optimize Lambda costs.

CloudSpend mobile application: Manage your cloud costs anywhere and everywhere

ManageEngine CloudSpend is a cloud cost management tool that helps you reduce overhead cloud costs using actionable insights. The CloudSpend mobile application enables users to perform actions on the go for their cloud services from their mobile devices. CloudSpend supports AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud services and is planning to launch GCP in the future.

30+ FP&A Interview Questions To Ask (And What To Listen For)

Finding trained FP&A professionals isn't too much trouble for most companies. The tricky part is finding a candidate who has the right combination of technical and soft skills for your organization’s needs. The following interview questions will help you find a qualified FP&A professional for your company. Listen to their responses to get a sense of their reasoning, expertise, situational awareness, ambition, and individual attitude towards various aspects of the FP&A profession.

Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer for Amazon EMR

Running your infrastructure in the cloud can lead to wasted resources and ultimately overspending. Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer for Amazon EMR operates dynamically in real time to optimize performance without the need to model your workloads ahead of time, change application code, or platform settings. It provides autonomous optimization continuously, improving resource utilization at both the instance level and with the EMR autoscaler. Watch the full video for a deep-dive on how Pepperdata solves the problem of cloud overspending and resource waste without manual intervention.

The 6-Step Guide To Rightsizing Your Instances

When businesses first transition to the cloud, they often prioritize performance and speed above all else. After all, the cloud is an exciting new world full of nearly unlimited resources ripe for the taking. Sooner or later, however, businesses must face the fact that speed and power come at a high financial price, and sometimes their original choices are not sustainable from a cost standpoint.

Kubecost and Qovery Team up to Offer Cost Monitoring for DevOps Teams

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Kubecost, a game-changing provider of cost monitoring for Kubernetes clusters. This collaboration marks a new era in efficiency and cost-effectiveness for DevOps teams everywhere. With Kubecost's advanced monitoring capabilities integrated into our own Kubernetes deployment platform, we are empowering organizations to take control of their cloud-native infrastructure like never before.

How Delivery Hero uses Kubecost and Datadog to manage Kubernetes costs in the cloud

As the world’s leading local delivery platform, Delivery Hero brings groceries and household goods to customers in more than 70 countries. Their technology stack comprises over 200 services across 20 Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EKS. This cloud-based, containerized infrastructure enabled them to scale their operation to support increasing demand as the volume of orders placed on their platform doubled during the pandemic.

Reduce 60% of your Logging Volume, and Save 40% of your Logging Costs with Lightrun Log Optimizer

As organizations are adopting more of the FinOps foundation practices and trying to optimize their cloud-computing costs, engineering plays an imperative role in that maturity. Traditional troubleshooting of applications nowadays relies heavily on static logs and legacy telemetry that developers added either when first writing their applications, or whenever they run a troubleshooting session where they lack telemetry and need to add more logs in an ad-hoc fashion.

2023 is When More FinOps Practices will Shift Left and Cost Optimization around Logging will Get Central Stage

Effective troubleshooting and resolution of critical production issues require DevOps and R&D teams to utilize logging and observability. However, selecting the right logging solution can be challenging, given the wide range of available options and associated costs. Additionally, the strategy for logging usage should be tailored to the needs of different personas and use cases, such as DevOps engineers versus developers.