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One spot for FinOps: Introducing Cost Intelligence and Billing Engine

Nov 27, 2023 By Joanne Godfrey In Spot
Wherever you are on your cloud journey, you’re likely under pressure to cut or at least control your cloud spend. You may be undertaking “quick fix” cost cutting tactics such as turning off resources or moving workloads to cheaper services. But, as you may be finding out, tactical, reactive cost management activities generally only work for the short term and do not solve systemic inefficiencies that only increase over time if not addressed.
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A Beginner-Friendly Guide To Azure Cloud Management

Nov 23, 2023 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
As a provider of over 200 cloud products and services, Microsoft Azure provides most of the capabilities you need to manage your cloud workloads. While this breadth of services can be beneficial, it can also create complexity issues, such as reducing cloud cost visibility and increasing security blind spots. Proper Azure cloud management can change this. In this snackable guide, we’ll share what Azure cloud management is, the key tools you need to manage your Azure environment, and more.
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A Quick Guide To Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Tools

Nov 22, 2023 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Over the past few years, Google has grown its cloud services to include more than 100 products and services. Today, Google Cloud rubs shoulders with the top two cloud service providers. Yet, managing a Google Cloud environment has become increasingly challenging as the platform expands its GCP tools. It’s not just Google Cloud. The same is true today for other leading public cloud providers. To its credit, Google Cloud provides plenty of tools to help you get the most out of the platform.
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15 Crucial Azure Tools You Need To Know Now

Nov 21, 2023 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
What Does Microsoft Azure Do? Azure Development Tools Azure Cost And Resource Management Tools Azure Security Tools Azure Monitoring And Reporting Tools How To Choose The Best Azure Tools For Your Business View The People, Products, And Processes That Drive Your Cloud Spend With CloudZero Modern cloud environments can be challenging to manage. It doesn’t have to be that way if you use the right tools.
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Engineering-Led Optimization: How To Proactively Manage Cloud Costs Without Slowing Down Innovation

Nov 21, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
How Engineering-Led Optimization Works Achieve Cloud Efficiency Without Slowing Down Innovation Historically, cloud cost optimization has been the responsibility of finance teams. Engineers have bought what they claim to need to build top-notch software; finance teams have gotten (and paid) the bill; neither has had an in-depth understanding of what the other is doing.
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3 Simple EC2 Strategies To Ensure Cost Efficiency

Nov 20, 2023 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the leader in cloud computing for more than ten years. Despite a decade of extensive innovation, no other resource encapsulates the principles of the cloud more than one of their flagship services, Elastic Cloud Computing, also known as EC2. Through EC2, AWS is able to offer flexible and scalable virtual infrastructure that can be ‘rented’ to run applications and workloads.
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5 Simple Steps to Reduce Your AWS S3 Bill

Nov 20, 2023 By David Drai In Anodot

Understanding your AWS S3 billing is crucial to effectively manage and reduce your costs. Charges in AWS S3 are primarily based on three factors: the amount of data you store, the number of requests you make, and data transfer fees. Storage costs are calculated per gigabyte (GB) stored, which are tiered depending on the total size of your data. Requests costs are incurred with each put, get, or list operation on your objects, with prices varying based on the type of request.

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Product Release Notes October 2023

Nov 16, 2023 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero
The 2023 CloudZero Makeover (Rebrand) Role-Based Access Control: New Editor Role Usage Data In Analytics View Your Data By GCP Tags CostFormation® Proportional Allocation Improvements Small Bites If you’ve visited CloudZero lately, you’ve probably seen a few changes. New logo, new app, new website, new look and feel — okay, more than a few changes. What provoked the rebrand?
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When AWS Won't Work: 10 AWS Alternatives Worth Considering Now

Nov 15, 2023 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Why Consider AWS Alternatives? How To Choose The Best Cloud Service Provider For Your Business Top 10 AWS Alternatives To Consider Today Easily Understand, Control, And Optimize Your Cloud Costs Whichever Provider You Choose Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still the largest cloud service provider today. With more than 240 cloud products, this Amazon.com subsidiary offers cloud, on-premises, serverless, and edge computing services.
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Managing observability spend with Grafana Cloud's Cost Management Hub

Nov 14, 2023 By Grafana In Grafana
Learn how Grafana Cloud helps analyze, manage and optimize observability spend from a central location called the cost management hub. The move to cloud-native architectures like K8s and Prometheus has caused an unprecedented increase in telemetry data that has resulted in observability bills skyrocketing. With Grafana Cloud and the central cost management hub, you will be able to answer any cost-related question with the tools to inspect, attribute, optimize and monitor your observability spend.
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