Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on Cost Management and related technologies.

How CloudZero Gave Duolingo Engineers What They Really Wanted

Many SaaS companies struggle to get engineers to take charge of costs and lower cloud expenses. Confused business leaders often put the problem on the shoulders of the engineers: Surely, it’s just that the engineers don’t care enough to stay within budget, or maybe they just don’t want to participate in the culture of cost efficiency leadership is trying to build. But what if your engineers actually do want to optimize costs—they just don’t have the tools and data to do so?

How AWS Regions Affect Cloud Costs (And How To Reduce Fees)

AWS is the most popular cloud service provider partly due to its global data center network. The distribution enables organizations to configure their workloads to meet the needs of their global clients. The thing is AWS Regions charge different rates for almost everything, from compute and storage to data backup and retrieval services. And these cost variances can add up quickly.

How HighRadius Engineers Use CloudZero To Make Smart Choices

HighRadius is a FinTech company that specializes in using automation to make financial management easier. So naturally, RamKishore Middela, assistant vice president of cloud engineering at HighRadius, recognizes more easily than most the benefits of automating his company’s cloud cost management with CloudZero.

GCP Cost Reporting: Key Features And Optimization Tips

GCP Cost Reporting is one of several tools provided by Google Cloud Console. The more you know about them, the more you’ll understand your Google Cloud bill. In addition, knowing the drivers behind your costs will help you reduce waste and maximize your GCP spend. This quick guide to GCP reporting tools will guide you on how to do it. We’ll also share how to get more detailed cost intelligence such as Cost per Customer or Cost per Feature on top of basics such as total and average costs.

Azure FinOps Tool to Analyze and Optimize Azure Costs

Turbo360 is an Azure FinOps tool designed to provide a clear view of cost trends through in-depth analysis across multiple subscriptions in a comprehensive dashboard. This powerful platform empowers finance and engineering teams with transparency into cloud spending, enabling effective cost optimization with business context.

AWS Auto Scaling 101: Tips For Success

Whether you’re growing rapidly and need to expand your infrastructure or demand has slowed and you need to scale down, AWS Auto Scaling can help. While manual scaling is time-intensive and costly, auto scaling is an automated process that adjusts capacity for predictable performance and costs. Auto scaling can help you optimize how your application is used and reduce wastage and optimize cloud spend.

Product Release Notes July 2024

For years, CloudZero has been a leader in the cloud cost allocation space, a statement supported by the fact that we remain the only cloud cost management platform to have received SOC1 Type 2 certification for our extreme accuracy when it comes to allocation and financial reporting capabilities. To quote our co-founder in the 2022 blog post listed above, “Quite simply, we organize cloud spend better than anyone else in the world.” Even so, we’re always looking to iterate and improve.

How to control your overage bills

We all know how tricky it can be to keep track of costs, especially when your projects spike or with the latest feature that your users love. That's why we've been working on a solution to ensure you never have surprise billing due to on-demand occurrences. Introducing our latest feature to give you both flexibility and control: Overage Budgets.

Introduction to AWS Enterprise Support Plans

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revolutionized the cloud computing industry by offering a wide range of services designed to provide flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency to businesses of all sizes. Selecting and using the appropriate support plan is essential to making the most of AWS's advantages. For all types of needs, from small businesses to multinational corporations, AWS provides a variety of support plans. This blog will examine the various AWS enterprise support plans and share how working with a partner-led enterprise support can increase the advantages even more while saving money.