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5 Ways You Can Use Automation To Optimize Your Cloud Spend

Automation is the result of taking a manual task or process and making it automatic with little to no manual intervention. It plays a crucial role in optimizing your cloud spend, as it can be applied to save several hours in various scenarios within your service’s operation. Here, at CloudZero, discussing automation is no stranger to us. We have information about what automation is and some common tools to help in this guide.

AI + Automation: A Trusted Copilot for ITOps in the Digital Age

We’re living in an unprecedented moment in time. Data is reshaping our world. From enterprise networks and the cloud to the smart refrigerators in our kitchens and the watches on our wrists, data is proliferating at an unprecedented scale, both in volume and velocity. As data owners, we continuously strive to monitor and derive intelligent insights from this data so we can catch performance anomalies and issues – from misconfigured systems to a skipped heartbeat – and quickly intervene.

When to Automate Recurring Events

“Is it worth it?” is probably the most common question customers ask business architects and value advisors. Whether it’s a software deployment or process improvement, customers want to be assured that the effort and risk of a project delivers real value. That is the question people in my line of work spend their days trying to answer. In many cases, the answer is complicated and requires a great deal of experience to explain.

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.

How to monitor Azure Automation Runbooks?

This video guides you through developing an Automation solution with Azure Automation accounts. The primary objective is to streamline the management and monitoring of these services for IT support operators, irrespective of their expertise in Azure. Mike demonstrates how you can add an automation runbook to a Business Application in Serverless360 to manage it alongside the other resources that make up your solution and how we can democratize some of the support to the IT support operators.