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cloudzero

AWS Athena, How It Works, And Why It Matters

Sep 5, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Amazon Athena is heralded for its simplicity, pay-per-query pricing, and speed. Others say Athena has its fair share of limitations, which could affect your overall analytics experience and quality of analyses. So, what is what? In this post, we’ll share what AWS Athena does, compare it to Amazon Redshift, and share how to understand and control your Athena costs in AWS (with just one tool).
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Kentik

Introducing Kentik Traffic Costs: Real-Time Network Cost Intelligence

Sep 3, 2025 By Lauren Basile In Kentik
Introducing Kentik Traffic Costs, an industry-first automated workflow delivering instant cost estimates for network traffic slices. Learn how this exciting new feature gives network, financial, and sales teams actionable insights to optimize spend, improve margins, and drive revenue.
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cloudzero

OpenAI Pricing: The Models, Features, And Costs To Know

Sep 3, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
If your SaaS organization is experimenting with OpenAI, your cloud bill just got a new line item. And unless you know exactly what drives it, that line item can go from manageable to margin-killer, fast. It’s also worth clarifying that OpenAI is not the same as ChatGPT. ChatGPT is the familiar end-user app with a flat monthly subscription. OpenAI, meanwhile, is the platform behind it — a mix of models, features, and usage-based pricing that shifts depending on what you build.
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CloudZero Is The First Cloud Cost Platform To Integrate With Anthropic

Sep 3, 2025 By Erik Peterson In CloudZero
The most challenging question in AI today isn’t how to build with it. It’s whether you can prove it’s worth what you’re spending on it. Every week, I hear the same thing from engineering and finance leaders: “We know the AI bills are big.
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Cost Controls and so Much More: Issue Detection Through Usage Analysis

Sep 3, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Keeping tabs on cloud spending across multiple organizations and vendors, including Datadog, can be tough and costly. If you're not tracking expenses, you're also missing other critical insights. The Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) faced this when moving to Datadog, needing to monitor costs across numerous organizations and over 180 Azure subscriptions. After a rapid migration, new cost reports quickly revealed more than just financial benefits. Unusual spending patterns often highlighted incidents, bugs, or security issues, offering early warnings about internal system problems.
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Kentik Traffic Costs Workflow Demo

Sep 3, 2025 By Kentik In Kentik
Learn how Kentik's automated traffic cost workflow provides instant visibility into network traffic costs, enabling you to optimize spend, improve margins, and make smarter business decisions. In this demo, you'll see practical examples like evaluating costs by AS group and downstream customer, helping network, finance, and commercial teams take immediate, actionable steps to reduce costs and boost efficiency.
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manageengine

Vendor consolidation-the key to IT cost optimization in 2026

Sep 2, 2025 By Jeremy Spence In ManageEngine
IT departments are no strangers to complexity. With businesses navigating a range of cloud services, cybersecurity tools, and automation technologies, the modern IT ecosystem can resemble a medley of vendors, software, and services sown together. While these solutions aim to improve performance, the sheer volume of suppliers can muddy the waters when it comes to efficiency and cost management.
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