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Azure Storage cost optimization to achieve maximum cost savings

Azure Storage Cost Optimization is a crucial aspect for organizations looking to harness the power of Azure storage while keeping expenses in check. This involves implementing strategies to minimize expenses, optimize resource utilization, and select appropriate storage types. It encompasses understanding and leveraging various features to optimize resource utilization, choosing the right storage types, and implementing best practices.

Azure Unit Economics for Crafting a Financially Sound Strategy

Embarking on a journey through the cloud landscape, Azure Unit Economics is a compass, guiding through the intricacies of financial optimization in the realm of Microsoft Azure. This blog post aims to clarify the complexity of Azure Unit Economics, underscoring its critical role in optimizing resource allocation and ensuring cost-effectiveness within the realm of cloud computing.

NEW FEATURE: Rainbow Deployments with Zero Downtime! (Jan 24 2024)

In this video, Jake Warner (CEO / Founder) does a quick dive into one of our latest features: Rainbow Deployments. These deployments enable teams to maintain multiple independent versions of their applications within one single environment. Additionally, deployments make it easy to take new versions of your applications live with zero downtime. Cycle is a container orchestration and infrastructure management platform built to provide a true alternative to Kubernetes.

Streamline Azure container monitoring with the Datadog AKS cluster extension

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) enables you to easily deploy and manage containerized applications in Azure while leveraging Microsoft resources such as development tools, security features, and more. As with any Kubernetes service, the sheer volume of containers being orchestrated makes monitoring AKS cluster health challenging, which can slow response times to critical incidents and create bottlenecks around long-term optimizations.

Pay-As-You-Go with Pepperdata Real-Time Cost Optimization

Gartner, Inc. estimates that worldwide spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20.4% to total $678.8 billion in 2024. With many organizations incorporating FinOps practices to govern how they spend their money in the cloud, Real-Time Cost Optimization is essential to saving money. In particular, as the market for Generative AI workloads continues to explode, organizations will need to consider a range of cost-savings models to extract optimal efficiency.

The 25 Most Crucial Software Engineering Tools In 2024

As a modern software engineer or CTO, you’re responsible for building, delivering, and maintaining high-quality software solutions at scale. Yet, software programs have grown increasingly complex over time, requiring meticulous work. The competition threatens to take your subscribers every billing cycle if you don’t constantly innovate, too. Customers want more, bigger, and better upgrades and updates.

A Guide to Cloud Storage vs Cloud Backup vs Cloud Sync

Cloud-based solutions have quickly become essential to our work and personal lives. As we entrust an ever-expanding array of online data, understanding the nuances of cloud services becomes crucial to keeping data private. At the core of this digital evolution are three primary cloud services: storage, backup, and sync. While these terms may seem interchangeable, they serve distinct purposes in managing and protecting digital assets.

Cloud Scaling: Secrets to Stability + Security When Scaling Cloud Computing

If you’re doing cloud operations right, your cloud needs are going to change over time. Cloud scaling can help you add cloud resources when you need them and retire or recycle them when you don’t. Cloud scaling is great for meeting traffic demands, accommodating demanding workloads, and controlling the chaos of cloud ops. But for all the flexibility that cloud scaling offers, it can also introduce liabilities in your cloud infrastructure.