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By CloudZero
As cloud systems become increasingly sophisticated, you want a cloud monitoring platform that helps you identify, isolate, and fix root-cause issues. Meanwhile, engineering leaders are under increasing pressure to reduce technology costs as the global economic outlook remains uncertain. With Datadog, you can observe, monitor, analyze, and report on the health of your infrastructure, applications, and services in any cloud and at scale.
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By Cody Slingerland
According to a recent PwC report, adopting FinOps best practices could reduce budget planning efforts by 40% by 2026. With 84% of companies struggling to manage cloud spending, FinOps is gaining traction. It helps organizations take control of cloud costs, improve financial efficiency, and drive smarter spending decisions. Finout is a FinOps platform that claims to reduce cloud costs by 30% over a year and a 50% time savings for engineers. If that is true, the next question is, how much does Finout cost?
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By Cody Slingerland
SaaS spend waste is a lot like a garden overrun with weeds. Just as weeds consume nutrients and water meant for flowers and vegetables, the waste drains financial resources that could have spurred growth and innovation. But that doesn’t have to be the case. In this post, we share key SaaS spend management best practices we’ve picked up over the years.
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By Cody Slingerland
Harness.io wants to be your one-stop shop for all things cloud management. To do so, the platform offers tools for automating complex processes, ensuring compliance and security, and improving cloud visibility. This holistic approach can accelerate software delivery and optimize operational costs in multi-cloud environments. But at what cost? You’ve probably heard that the Harness.io pricing model is confusing and opaque. And now Harness has restructured its pricing.
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By Cody Slingerland
The CDN market is projected to grow from $27.59 billion in 2024 to $127.13 billion by 2033. The surge in online content consumption, e-commerce expansion, and cloud adoption are some of the leading factors behind this growth. Amazon CloudFront is one of the leading CDN services that offers users efficient and rapid content delivery. However, its costs can be complex due to data transfer fees, request charges, region-specific pricing, and more.
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By Cody Slingerland
Cloud computing is like the modern, virtual frontier where organizations can scale their operations with just a click. But, building your cloud infrastructure is not just about choosing servers and storage. It’s also about establishing a secure, efficient network to ensure your applications run smoothly and your data is protected. Think of your cloud network as a cloud city.
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By Cody Slingerland
If picking the best database management system (DBMS) were a road trip, both MongoDB and DynamoDB would get you there. Ultimately, it comes down to choosing whether you need the specialized efficiency of DynamoDB within Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the “off-road” flexibility of platform-agnostic MongoDB. What do road trips and off-road antics have to do with deciding between MongoDB vs. DynamoDB?
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By Cody Slingerland
Happy holidays! It’s that time of year when people brainstorm their New Year’s resolutions, and companies are laying out plans to hit the new year with a fresh cost management strategy in place. If you’re in the latter boat, check out these end-of-year wrap-ups that will help you start 2025 on the right foot, financially speaking. Enjoy!
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By Cody Slingerland
Managing modern, complex IT systems manually is like navigating a vast, ever-changing city without a map, GPS, or road signs. Imagine driving blindfolded, relying solely on occasional radio updates (logs) about traffic jams (issues) and detours (system changes). Not only does this method slow you down, but by the time you react to a traffic jam, it’s already caused gridlock across the city. Worse, competitors zipping through the city with autonomous cars (AIOps) are faster and more efficient.
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By Anand Sundaram
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With CloudZero you get insights about your applications and systems, helping you manage operations at a scale that you’ve never had before. Our platform provides you with insights about every piece of your system, including the real cost of resources, resource utilization, reserved capacity and cost center efficiency.
With the accurate and trusted data provided by CloudZero you can minimize or eliminate under utilized resources, visualize costs for easy comprehension and oversee the entire software lifecycle. Nothing is out of view when using CloudZero’s Observability platform. From regional views to individual resources, you have insights at every level to help you keep your systems running smoothly.
How do we do it?
- Collect and Normalize: CloudZero’s platform starts by collecting the data from your CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC Flowlogs, Lambda Data Events and Billing Data from every AWS account you connect. This part of the platform is isolated in its own account for security and has read-only access to the accounts you connect.
- Populate the Stream: All of the data collected is normalized and the events, resources, statistics and billing data are organized into data streams which allow our platform to perform real-time analytics on all the data collected.
- Find Meaning: Our algorithms take in the normalized data and perform complex analytics sifting through all the data to filter noise and enhance signal. We use Machine Learning on a large scale to learn what is valuable to surface.
- Visualize Everything: The application provides opinionated visualizations of the insights determined by the platform’s AI. From regional system maps to single resources to cost of service broken down by team, CloudZero’s platform provides true observability to everyone in your organization.
Observability for Everyone. Add cost as a first-class metric and understand the financial effect of operational decisions.