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Getting Your Clouds Under Control: Part 1-FinOps

Given the strategic importance of the cloud and size of cloud expenditures, it’s critical for enterprises to have solid controls in place to manage it all. According to our latest research, however, while most organizations agree with that sentiment, very few have put it into practice. There are distinct but related disciplines that come into play: FinOps and cloud governance. In this two-part series, we explore current state of each.

How To Optimize Your Reserved Instances For Maximum Cost Savings

Companies of all sizes can take advantage of AWS Reserved Instances (RIs) to save money on the price of standard Amazon EC2 On-Demand instances. To receive the discounted rate associated with AWS Reserved Instances, you must commit to a year or three years of usage. In exchange, you can save up to 75% off the On-Demand price.

Private cloud: Avoiding the high cost of operations

Technology plays a strategic role in the success of any organisation. Whether you’re part of an enterprise with thousands of employees across the globe or running a startup from the garage of your home, the success of the business comes down to how you consume technology. However, it’s not that straightforward, and IT decision makers usually have to make a lot of trade-offs when investing in technology.

Lumigo Receives Frost & Sullivan's Technology Innovation Leadership Award

Since our founding, Lumigo has worked hard to build innovative technology that meets the real-world needs of our customers in a cloud-first world. Today, we’re excited to be recognized for our work in serverless operations and the AI market by the experts at Frost & Sullivan, who have awarded Lumigo with the prestigious Best Practices Technology Award in Europe and Israel.

How to Protect Your Emails: 8 Best Gmail Account Security Tips

Have you ever had your Gmail account hacked? If not, you’re lucky. But it happens, 1 out of 4200 emails sent in 2020 was a phishing activity. Considering that 306 billion emails were sent in the same year, it means a whopping 72 million were phishing-related. Keeping your Gmail secure isn’t a request anymore. You don’t want anyone to access your personal information or compromise important company conversations and files. That said, here are our top 8 tips on keeping your Gmail secure.

Getting AWS CloudTrail alerts via SNS Endpoint

Logging and auditing have been an essential part of troubleshooting application and infrastructure performance. You can instantly spot areas of risk to ensure quick correction and prevention of issues. In this blog, we will explore the AWS CloudTrail service and discuss how integrating it with Squadcast can help you route alerts to the right users for quick and efficient incident response. Let's get started.