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Top 13 AWS Lambda Alternatives For Serverless Computing

As of 2024, the global serverless computing market is projected to reach a value of USD 21.9 billion, with expectations to grow to USD 44.7 billion by 2029. Around 70% of organizations using AWS have adopted at least one serverless solution. The adoption rates for Google Cloud and Azure are 60% and 49%, respectively. These numbers affirm that serverless is here to stay, and the demand for platforms to create and run applications is higher than ever. AWS Lambda is the most popular serverless platform.

Product Release Notes October 2024

The easier it is for you to get data into CloudZero, the easier it’ll be to maximize your cloud efficiency. This month’s updates have entirely to do with ease of use: a drag-and-drop method to get unit cost metric data into the product, an improved MongoDB integration, and continued improvements to our AnyCost API and cost integrations.

AWS Redshift Guide: Use Cases, Pros And Cons, And Pricing

Amazon Redshift processes petabytes of data, making it one of the most popular data warehousing solutions on the market. It uses Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) technology to process massive volumes of data at lightning speeds. Plus, Redshift costs a fraction of the cost of other data platforms. This guide will provide a deeper understanding of Redshift to help you determine whether it’s the best data warehouse solution for your organization.

Create Drag-And-Drop Unit Cost Dashboards In Minutes

As 2024 peeks into 2025, cloud-driven businesses are poised for yet another year of record cloud spending. After exceeding $675B this year, cloud spenders are expected to shell out more than $820B in 2025 (Gartner). But as any good unit economist knows, it’s not just that cloud costs are growing, it’s that they’re growing inefficiently — taking too big a bite out of companies’ profits.

What's New in Turbo360 - Azure Cost Analyzer Improvements, Anomaly Detection Enhancements...

Turbo360's Product Owner, Michael Stephenson, brings you the latest updates in the Azure cost management and monitoring platform. This video highlights exciting new UI themes, enhanced widget features, and improved cost analysis tools—all designed to boost your productivity and deliver deeper insights.

Understanding Provisioning In IT: A Complete Guide For 2024

Your IT infrastructure, resources, and components play a crucial role in your system performance, security, and overall health. Provisioning is often one of the very first steps toward setting up the right environment for your workload requirements – both locally and in the cloud. Here’s a handy guide to how provisioning works in IT. We’ll also share a tool to help you prevent overprovisioning and waste by automating provisioning in the cloud.

How OnlineOrNot more than halved its AWS bill

Chances are, you've heard one of the main promises of serverless compute: "you only pay for what you use". While convenient when starting a new project, once you start to get continuous usage on that compute, you start to realize you're paying a hefty premium for that convenience. If you're using AWS Lambda like I am, chances are that "for what you use" part isn't completely true either.

13 Snowflake Tools To Help Monitor Cloud Storage And Usage

Snowflake is special for several reasons. To begin with, its architecture separates storage and compute, making it fast, highly scalable, and efficient. Snowflake’s cloud-native, SaaS, and serverless approach also means you don’t have to worry about provisioning servers on-premises. Instead, you just need a Snowflake subscription; their team will handle the handy work on your behalf. At CloudZero, we use Snowflake for these and several more reasons.

Cloud Financial Operations: Strategies for Cost Management

This episode of FinOps on Azure delves into financial operations within cloud infrastructure management, featuring host Michael Stephenson, A FinOps certified practitioner, and Andrew Matveychuk, Information Technology Architect. They discuss the critical importance of cost management in cloud environments, highlighting the expectations versus reality of cloud migration costs.