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If you’re ready to leap to the government cloud, you’re likely looking back and forth between Amazon and Microsoft, wondering which is the best (and safest) bet. We’ve got you covered! Learn all you need to know from our cloud experts about which government cloud offering will work best for you – and it may come as a surprise, but there are other options outside of AWS and Azure… get into the details below!

Cloud services have become an indispensable resource for businesses seeking agility, scalability, and innovation. However, with this increased reliance on the cloud comes the challenge of managing and optimizing costs effectively. For Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), understanding and tracking cloud cost metrics is crucial to maintaining financial health and ensuring strategic investments yield the desired returns.

Every government – especially the U.S. government – needs secure cloud space. And there is no better way to get guaranteed security and compliance-ready services than through Microsoft Azure Government’s world-class cloud offerings. But what is Azure Government? How does it work? And, most importantly, will your organization qualify to reap the benefits?

Most IT project management frameworks are directed at single-focus teams like software development, not multi-focus teams like SRE.

Organizations often assume that switching to Amazon Web Services (AWS) will automatically reduce their on-premises spending. Certainly, cloud-based services like AWS’ Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) can offer significant cost savings. Yet overspending on AWS is quite common. How can you tell if moving to AWS is the right decision? What figures would you use to quantify and justify that choice to decision-makers? Enter Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on AWS.

With a reputation for traditional reliance on extensive paperwork and detailed documentation, the legal industry is known for its slower adoption of technology. However, with well-established processes, reliable data sources, and often significant budgets, the profession has the ability for transformative innovation, but it comes with challenges. A recent report from the Law Society suggests ‘an indifference toward technological advancement among many legal professionals.

Like most organizations, we are always trying to be as efficient as possible in our usage of our cloud resources. To help accomplish this, we encourage individual engineering teams at Datadog to look for opportunities to optimize. They can share their performance wins, big or small, in an internal Slack channel along with visualizations and, often, calculations of the resulting annual cost savings.