The beginning of a new year is a time ripe for innovation. But implementing new ideas to scale quickly while keeping cloud costs down is a delicate balance to strike. January’s cloud cost news brings positive shifts in the market from AWS, Google, and SAP.

“There’s amazing people doing amazing things, thinking about amazing solutions, and I think as storytellers, it’s important for us to lean into some of these futures. They don’t have to be perfect futures, but they’re futures where there’s hope.

Welcome to Episode 3 of our Modernize as you Migrate Series, where we delve into the game-changing topic, “Scale Your Migration Teams with Jira Integration and Project Templates,” brought to you by Tidal Cloud.

The goal of any great cloud monitoring tool is to give you a bird’s eye view of your system and its digital assets so that you can potentially improve user experiences. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to realize the extent of functionality of their tools, leading to a bloated budget with many unused applications.

Late last year, during an engaging Twitch livestream by AWS Developer Advocate Darko Mesaroš, I was introduced to a new framework Id seen a few people talking about called Winglang. What really got my attention was this wasn’t just another entry in the list of cloud frameworks, Winglang was on a mission to redefine how we interact with cloud environments. Its ambition to serve as an expansive framework that could effortlessly connect different cloud platforms instantly caught my attention.

For many years, BizTalk Server has been a popular Microsoft platform for streamlining business transactions by integrating backend systems. Microsoft BizTalk Server is flexible, scalable, and very customizable. Hence, for many organizations, it was a logical choice to use the product to integrate their internal systems, and by using cloud adapters, the product can even connect with branch offices and/or partners in different geographical locations.

Real Options Analysis (ROA) is a decision-making approach that originated in financial management but has since been applied in various fields, including technology and software vendor selection. ROA focuses on assessing the value of maintaining flexibility in decision-making under uncertainty.