The thermostat for the first floor of my house is located right behind me in my home office. I probably walk by it a dozen times a day, but I only look at it if I am feeling cold or warm to check to see if the temperature is set to the correct value. In Massachusetts, hot and cold are seasonal but can vary a lot day to day so checking occurs more often than you would think.

In 2020, remote work exploded with the start of COVID-19 as businesses scrambled to stay productive and competitive amidst health concerns and quarantines. During the pandemic, close to 70% of workers were working from home. Currently, 4.7 million people work remotely at least half the time in the US, and 62% of workers claim to work remotely at least occasionally.

Delivering on our commitment to offer customer flexible RI (Reserved Instances) management and long-term savings, Eco for Azure now supports Savings Plans and two new customer account types, PaYG and MCA. Released earlier this year, Eco for Azure is still the first choice for FinOps-minded organizations looking to maximize team resources and automate dynamic cloud commitments.

Greetings from Las Vegas, and the first “normal” AWS (Amazon Web Services) re:Invent since the show in 2019! We made it! Now begins the recovery and the slog back to “normal.” It does not matter if it was your first, third, or even fifth AWS re:Invent experience. You always end up walking away learning something new or finding new tools that you did not know you needed, and as always, more swag and freebies from the convention floor than you thought possible.

Notifications help us keep track of everything going on, anywhere and anytime. Until today, Spot provided a tool for configuring notifications on events that occur in your spot account’s resources. This tool allows users to create, manage, and register to notification policies and choose from which integration to receive notifications (email, Slack, webhook, and SNS). And with all that goodness, we are here to improve your experience even more!

Earlier this year, a new user management system was announced, designed to give Spot’s users more granular control on their Spot resources at both the organization and account levels. As we got very good feedback from customers, we are now happy to announce a new feature in the user management system called Custom Policy Conditions. The condition feature allows users with policy modification access to create conditions within the policy.

Prior to the pandemic, the notion of hybrid work was foreign and in most cases was for the “exceptional situation”. There used to be a small group of remote workers who weren’t near the office, and the road-warriors who were rarely in the office. On average though, working in the office was the norm. Beginning in 2020, there were headlines, articles, research, and statistics on how hybrid work is here to stay.