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By Dustin Lowman
Data engineering. Data science. Machine learning. Data governance. These are just a few of the many capabilities that make Databricks a favorite among developers and data engineers. Yet, most have one common complaint — its cost. Some say it’s too expensive, especially for small and medium-sized organizations. Others find it hard to justify using the platform due to budget limits. In addition, maintaining and running data warehouses can be costly.
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By Cody Slingerland
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By CloudZero
FinOps is one of the latest buzzwords in cloud computing. It’s a merger of two critical departments — finance and operations — and describes “cloud financial operations” (cloud financial management or cost management).
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By CloudZero
DevOps. DevSecOps. AIOps. NoOps. RevOps. FinOps. It’s hard to keep up sometimes. No worries, though. CloudZero sits at the intersection of finance and operations — and we recently joined the FinOps Foundation, which brings together FinOps practitioners to collaborate, learn, and network. In this guide, we’ll discuss FinOps and why it matters to you as a SaaS company that relies on cloud services and OpEx financials.
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By CloudZero
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FinOps dashboards help manage cloud financial operations by providing real-time visibility into cloud spending, resource utilization, and cost optimization. They are part of the broader FinOps framework, which combines finance and DevOps practices to improve collaboration between technology, finance, and business teams. This collaboration supports financial accountability and optimizes cloud costs.
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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.