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cloudzero

A Guide To GCP Regions (And How They Affect Your Costs)

Mar 28, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) launched in April 2008 with Google App Engine. This developer-centric Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering allowed developers to build and host web applications on Google’s cloud infrastructure. Initially, App Engine only supported Python, but in 2009, Google added Java support, offering more programming flexibility. In 2010, GCP expanded further with Cloud Storage, its second major cloud product.
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virtana

Optimizing Every Layer: From Cloud to On-Premises

Mar 27, 2025 By Virtana Insight In Virtana
As digital infrastructures become more complex, businesses need an agile, unified platform that spans traditional on-premises systems to modern cloud-native environments. At Virtana, our latest feature updates across Global View, Container Observability, and Infrastructure Observability are designed to empower you to optimize every layer of your IT ecosystem.
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smikar

Microsoft 365 Backup 2026: What It Covers, What It Costs, and Where the Gaps Are

Mar 27, 2025 By Mark In SmiKar Software
Protecting your organization’s data within Microsoft 365 is crucial to ensure business continuity, compliance, and resilience against threats like accidental deletions, cyberattacks, and data corruption. Implementing a comprehensive backup strategy safeguards your critical information and facilitates rapid recovery when needed.
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squared up

An aerial view of your Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins pipeline landscape

Mar 27, 2025 By John Hayes In Squared Up
Most engineering teams today have a multiplicity of tools to meet all of the different challenges they face. Some people characterize this as a problem and describe it as 'tool sprawl'. At SquaredUp, we just see it as a fact of life that no tool can excel at every job and engineers will want to choose the best tool for each task. Many companies have multiple toolchains spread across different teams and departments.
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Avantra

Monitoring for operations of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

Mar 26, 2025 By Robert MacDonald In Avantra
"Do I need to monitor SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition?" is the question many SAP customers are asking right now as projects are going live. As an SaaS product run by SAP, customers get access only through a public website, and SAP are responsible for the availability of that website and the hardware resources. The places where traditional monitoring focussed either aren't relevant, aren't visible, or superficially aren't the customer's problem anymore. Does that mean there is no need to monitor anything in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition?
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cloudzero

AI On A Budget: Low-Cost Strategies For Running AI In The Cloud

Mar 26, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
AI costs can spiral out of control before you know it. One day you’re building an AI feature that promises to bring in a solid chunk of revenue for the company. The next day you’re obsessing over an astronomically high cloud bill that will significantly eat into your profits — or consume them entirely. To help you solve this problem, we brought in Jeremy Daly, Director of Research (and AI cost management guru) at CloudZero.
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tidal

LightMesh + AWS: Secure Subnet Discovery and Unified IPAM at Scale

Mar 26, 2025 By Amber Weaver In Tidal
LightMesh now integrates with AWS, providing automated discovery and unified management of your cloud networking resources. This powerful integration eliminates fragmented visibility across VPCs and regions, giving you real-time insights into your entire AWS infrastructure through a single, intuitive platform.
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honeycomb

Better CloudWatch Metrics in Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Mar 26, 2025 By Davin Taddeo In Honeycomb
CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code. There are also a number of useful metrics for non-web-request based functions, like metrics on concurrent database requests. We use them at Honeycomb to get statistics on load balancers and RDS instances. The Amazon Data Firehose is able to export directly to Honeycomb as well, which makes getting the data into Honeycomb straightforward.
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manageengine

Top 6 EC2 rightsizing recommendations that you can't ignore

Mar 26, 2025 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine
Imagine a day at work where you realize that your team’s youngest developer has failed to kill a compute instance; the bill spikes and the budget is breached. Rightsizing recommendations would come to the rescue and play a crucial role in such situations by identifying underutilized, overutilized, or mismanaged resources and suggesting corrective actions.
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