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The top 5 limitations of taking a tactical cloud cost management approach to FinOps

Management of cloud costs is a business imperative. Many organizations are embracing cloud financial operations, or FinOps, to help them reduce and manage cloud spend. Typically, at least initially, FinOps practitioners focus on gaining a picture of their cloud environment and the associated cost of their cloud resources. They then utilize these reports to implement cost-cutting measures, such as right-sizing instances, removing unused resources, adjusting instance uptime, or purchasing commitment plans.

Effortlessly keep EKS AMI up to date with Spot Ocean

New Kubernetes versions can introduce significant changes and security updates. When Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) releases a new version or a security patch, it is the user’s responsibility to be aware of updates and to perform the full update on their side. This can be a tedious and time-consuming task. Until today, Spot Ocean users needed to manually update their AMIs after updating EKS version.

Ep. 12: Let's talk serverless: A discussion with AWS hero Yan Cui

Ep. 12: Let’s talk serverless: A discussion with AWS hero Yan Cui In this episode of Cloud Control, host Shon Harris engages with Yan Cui, an AWS Serverless hero and consultant, to explore the transformative world of serverless computing. Yan shares his journey from traditional infrastructure to serverless technologies, discussing the evolution of AWS and the pivotal role serverless plays in modern computing. They delve into practical applications, the impact of AI and ML on serverless environments, and the significance of community and knowledge sharing in tech.

Stop guessing: Master canary deployments with Ocean CD Baseline

Today’s companies need to determine whether their software rollouts are successful to ensure good user experience, software stability, reliability, and effectiveness during rollouts. To assess their rollouts, they monitor metrics like memory consumption, CPU usage, error rates, and more.

Building multi-tenant SaaS with Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS with Spot Ocean from Spot by NetApp

SaaS providers prefer to host their solutions centrally on the cloud as a single deployment unit and share them across all their customers (tenants) in order to achieve strategic business objectives. To support this, SaaS generally demands cloud-managed services to help implement necessary automation, security, and observability specifically for their multi-tenanted compute layers.