Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Some of your most critical infrastructure runs on AWS EC2, so it's pretty damn important to know when your EC2 instances shut down. Sure, chances are someone in your organisation will start kicking and screaming within 30 minutes of a particularly important instance shutting down, but we can do better than that. When it comes to monitoring and customers (whether inside your org or outside), being proactive wins you a lot of points.

If you are fine using a conventional cloud cost management tool, Apptio’s Cloudability can be a helpful tool. It promises to enable DevOps, IT, and finance to optimize cloud resources for quality, speed, and cost. A large business with a high cloud spend, a team of 5-10 engineers, and a budget for expert guidance is an ideal match for Cloudability.

Managing AWS costs just a whole lot more convenient. CloudZero now integrates with Amazon Q Developer, AWS’s AI-powered engineering assistant. A natural language processor, Amazon Q Developer helps engineers write, analyze, and debug code, accelerate workload transformations, and adopt AWS best practices, enhancing developer productivity by as much as 80%.

We’re excited to announce the release of Densify 3.0, a major step forward in our mission to deliver precision-driven cloud optimization across Kubernetes and public cloud environments. This release brings to life a new user experience, powerful automation capabilities, richer data insights, and smarter APIs—all designed to simplify and scale your optimization journey.

Every business strives to optimize operational costs and efficiency. In the DevOps world, where cloud-scale operations are the norm, this becomes even more critical. At JFrog, while delivering a robust and highly scalable SaaS solution to our customers, we are equally focused on optimizing operational costs and maximizing infrastructure efficiency.

Redgate Monitor has long helped data teams and DBAs keep track of SQL Agent Jobs. Now, with version 14.0.53, it extends that visibility to Azure Elastic Jobs, giving you a centralized view of all your scheduled tasks, whether they run on SQL Server, Azure SQL Managed Instances, or Azure SQL Databases.

Logging and auditing activity across your AWS environment is a must for security, governance, and compliance. Yet, between management events, data events, and optional insights, it’s easy to overspend on tracking activity without realizing it. In this guide, we’ll break down CloudTrail pricing in plain terms and see what impacts your final bill. We’ll also share immediately actionable ways to keep your CloudTrail costs in check without sacrificing full observability.