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Cycle Spotlight: Sr Developer Thomas van der Pol discusses building resilient deployment automation.

In this edition of the Cycle Spotlight, Thomas van der Pol joins us to chat about deployment & automation. Thomas, a Senior Developer at Submarine, comes from a wealth of experience in software development and even dabbles in DevOps. Tune in to hear how an industry innovator delivers top-quality software consistently!

Monthly Recap: August 2024 + Looking Ahead to September

August has been an outstanding month for the Cycle team, marked by significant advancements across the platform. We've introduced new features aimed at simplifying workflows and enhancing user experience. As we wrap up August and look ahead to September, we're excited to share the progress we've made and what you can expect in the coming weeks.

What Is an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS)?

Managing documents is a crucial aspect of running a business efficiently. As companies transition from paper to digital formats, having a reliable Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) becomes essential. An EDMS helps manage document storage, retrieval, and sharing and ensures regulatory compliance.

Azure Cost Assessment

FinOps-certified practitioner Michael Stephenson introduces the cost assessment survey. He walks through the survey, explaining its importance and the types of questions it includes. The survey covers topics such as the frequency of cloud cost reviews, who is responsible for cost monitoring, methods for tracking spending, and much more! He also emphasizes the need for proactive cost management and highlights common practices like shutting down unused resources and right-sizing. The goal is to help organizations manage and optimize their cloud costs more effectively.

Top 25+ AWS Cost Optimization Tools And Best Practices

While AWS offers significant benefits compared to traditional on-premise infrastructure, its inherent elasticity and scalability tend to create uncontrolled costs. AWS costs can be opaque and difficult to analyze, and without a system for identifying the source of costs and managing them, they can quickly undermine profit margins. However, several tools have emerged to help organizations manage and optimize their costs over the past few years.

Turbo360 FinOps and Cost Management Is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Turbo360 to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies. Turbo360, an advanced cloud Management platform, today announced the availability of its flagship module, FinOps and Cost Management for Azure, in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

5 Automated GCP Optimizations That Make Cloud Cost Savings Simple

As both the State Of FinOps 2024 and the State Of Cloud Costs In 2024 indicate, reducing cloud waste remains a top priority for cloud-driven organizations. Cloud spenders care more than ever about cost efficiency — and CloudZero is working tirelessly to make cloud savings simpler. To this end, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added a suite of automated GCP optimizations to our Insights feature.

Key learnings from the State of Cloud Costs study

We recently released our initial State of Cloud Costs report, which identified factors shaping the costs of hundreds of organizations that use Datadog Cloud Cost Management to monitor their AWS spend. The report reveals several widely applicable themes, including the ways in which resource utilization, adoption of emerging technologies, and participation in commitment-based discount programs all shape cloud environments and costs.