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Azure Budget Planning: Simplify Cost Management and Forecasting

The video introduces the new Turbo 360 feature designed to simplify Azure budget planning for teams. It highlights how team managers can easily manage and project costs, input monthly records, and adjust budgets based on upcoming projects, all while minimizing reliance on technical resources. The focus is on enhancing productivity and making financial management more accessible.

Accelerate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure monitoring with Datadog OCI QuickStart

Datadog’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration enables you to collect metrics and logs from your entire OCI stack and monitor them within a single platform alongside other third-party technologies. Datadog’s new OCI QuickStart is a fully managed, single-flow setup experience that helps you monitor your OCI infrastructure and applications in just a few clicks.

How to Automate Azure Cost Reports in Minutes?

Reporting Azure costs to stakeholders doesn't have to be a time-consuming task. In this video, Michael Stephenson - a FinOps certified practitioner, introduces a new feature that helps you generate ready-to-use PowerPoint reports—so you can walk into any meeting with clear insights on your team's Azure cost performance. From cost trends and anomalies to right-sizing recommendations, the Executive Summary Report gives you a complete picture in minutes. It's all about making Azure cost optimization easier, faster, and more actionable.

How Successful Teams Master Cloud Resource Management

Cloud computing promised speed, scale, and freedom. And it delivered. Engineers can deploy in seconds. Teams can scale globally overnight. But somewhere between all that freedom and speed, control got blurry. Resources piled up. Budgets ballooned. And suddenly, no one could answer the simple question: What are we paying for and why? Cloud resource management is how we reclaim that control, without slowing down.

Create rich, up-to-date visualizations of your AWS infrastructure with Cloudcraft in Datadog

As your cloud environment grows more complex and dynamic, it becomes more difficult to maintain up-to-date reference diagrams, visualizing its components, that are available to all teams. As a result, teams often end up lacking the visibility they need to understand, manage, and troubleshoot their cloud infrastructure and applications.

9 Best OpenShift Alternatives For Today's DevOps Teams

OpenShift delivers a lot right out of the box. And for many teams running at enterprise scale, it’s exactly what they need. The platform offers a built-in container registry, observability tools, and service mesh support. You also get integrations for GitOps, serverless, and even ML workflows. OpenShift combines powerful orchestration with developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise-grade security. All under one roof.

Azure Cost Optimization Best Practices - you can actually implement

Explore actionable strategies for Azure cost optimization—helping you move from just monitoring to actually reducing spend. Discover how leading teams are embedding FinOps best practices, leveraging automation, and building a cost-aware culture to keep cloud bills under control.

Monitoring ECS Metrics: A Guide for Developers and Operations Teams

For anyone leveraging cloud computing, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) continues to provide a seamless solution for managing containerized applications. AWS Fargate takes this cloud-native architecture a step further by allowing you to run containers without servers or clusters. As a serverless offering for ECS, Fargate provisions compute capacity and scales it based on demand.