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November 2024

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Going Beyond CloudWatch: 5 Steps to Better Log Analytics & Analysis

Amazon CloudWatch is a great tool for DevOps engineers, developers, SREs, and other IT personnel who require basic Amazon Web Services (AWS) log processing and analytics for cloud services and applications deployed on AWS. However, most developer teams will ultimately need more logging functionality than a basic AWS log analyzer like Amazon Cloudwatch can provide. For example: That's why, although CloudWatch may be one tool in your log analytics strategy, it probably should not be the only one.

A Simple Guide To AWS Lambda Pricing And Cost Management

AWS Lambda is an event-driven compute service, which means it executes tasks automatically when triggered by a compute event. This automation also means that your Lambda costs can quickly exceed your budget. That is especially true when you’re not familiar with AWS Lambda pricing. In this guide, we’ll discuss the AWS Lambda pricing model, including how billing works and how to optimize Lambda costs.

Azure VM cost optimization to maximize savings

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) offer a powerful and scalable way to run workloads in the cloud. However, their flexibility comes with a cost that can quickly spiral out of control if not managed effectively. This blog will guide you through understanding your Azure VM costs, explore best practices for optimization, and introduce a powerful tool “Turbo360” to help you save even more.

The CloudFront solution with CloudSpend: Simplifying cloud cost management

Amazon CloudFront cost management Cloud services have revolutionised how businesses operate, with Amazon CloudFront leading the charge in delivering content seamlessly. But as convenient and powerful as CloudFront is, managing its costs can sometimes feel like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle in the dark. That’s where CloudSpend steps in—a tool designed to provide clarity and control over CloudFront expenses.

Top 5 AWS automations to enhance cloud operational efficiency

As cloud computing continues to dominate IT infrastructures, automation has emerged as a critical tool for enhancing operational efficiency, especially within platforms like AWS. By automating routine tasks and workflows, organizations can reduce the need for manual intervention, minimize human errors, and accelerate deployment cycles. Automation also plays a vital role in resource optimization.

Optimize cloud costs and performance with CloudSpend's Recommendations report

Managing cloud costs and maintaining high performance across multi-cloud environments can be challenging. The Recommendations report in ManageEngine CloudSpend is designed to simplify this process, offering tailored insights for AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts. With the right recommendations in place, CloudSpend helps you reduce unnecessary spending, bolster your cloud infrastructure’s reliability, and enhance security.

What is budgeting and forecasting in cloud cost management?

CloudSpend Budgets- Rightsize resource The cloud is the backbone of most businesses’ IT. This model for computer data storage is flexible, scalable, and provides incredible possibilities for growth. But with great power comes great responsibility—or, in this case, great bills. Managing cloud costs can feel like you are trying to control a growing wildfire, especially as businesses scale up.

Essential MongoDB Tools For Modern Data Management

As the SaaS industry grows enormously, data management has become a major challenge for most organizations. MongoDB provides a robust framework for managing and scaling data. Its document-based model simplifies handling diverse data types, making it ideal for real-time applications and large datasets. This guide covers the top MongoDB tools that help businesses stay agile and competitive in data-driven environments. But first, how does MongoDB compare to traditional SQL databases?

The Key to Visibility for ITOps and CloudOps Teams

While ITOps and CloudOps teams manage distinct environments, they can both struggle to achieve the deep visibility required to maintain system performance. Let’s examine the barriers to visibility and how a unified observability solution can provide the insight teams need to keep operations running smoothly.

Azure Cost Per Resource: Effectively manage Azure costs with Turbo360

Azure offers diverse cloud resources that empower businesses, but managing costs can be challenging without a clear view of expenses per resource. For organizations, understanding Azure costs per resource is essential to optimize spending, predict expenses, and make data-driven decisions. This blog will guide you through calculating and monitoring costs for individual Azure resources, using native tools like Azure Cost Management, and providing tips on reducing unnecessary expenses.

Building India's Digital Future with Cloud Computing

With India projected to become a US$ 26 trillion GDP economic superpower by 2047, the demand for scalable, secure, and compliant digital infrastructure has never been more urgent. As home to the world’s largest, youngest, and most digitally adept population, India's digital economy is expanding rapidly, driven by a wave of innovation and public cloud adoption.

20 FP&A Software Tools To Boost Your Financial Analysis Today

FP&A tools can help your business assess, plan, and budget business activities effectively. The tools automate much of the work involved, help you tell where you could be losing money, and reveal additional revenue streams you can capitalize on. At a time when SaaS competition is at an all-time high, you need all the advantages at your disposal to deliver the most value at the least cost. This can help you improve your margins, attract more investors, and generate enough profits to fund your growth.

Make the most out of Azure cloud commitment flexibility

In the landscape of cloud cost optimization, Azure’s discounted Reservations and Savings Plans stand out for their flexibility. On June 6th, 2024 Azure postponed its decision to limit reservation exchangeson its major compute services for an unlimited “grace period”. As a result, commitments on all of Azure’s compute and other services remain highly flexible to modify or exchange.

Securing the Cloud: The Power of Network Observability in Hybrid Environments

Cloud adoption is surging, with the market projected to reach over $350 billion in the next five years. Research by Enterprise Strategy Group shows that 86% of organizations use two or more public cloud services. Securing these cloud and hybrid environments will become increasingly important as more organizations migrate critical services and applications to the cloud.

5 Key Memberships That Help Startups Optimize and Scale Successfully

Starting a new company can be an exhilarating journey filled with innovation, creativity, and the potential for rapid growth. But with that excitement comes a significant challenge- how do you keep operations smooth, organized, and scalable while maintaining a focus on innovation? Thankfully, a range of tools and services can simplify tasks, save time, and help you stay ahead of the curve. In this article, we'll explore five essential memberships and tools startups should consider integrating into their operations to ensure long-term success.

Lumigo Adds Metrics for Microservices Monitoring

We’re excited to announce Lumigo Metrics, the latest addition to Lumigo’s industry-leading observability suite. Developers already rely on Lumigo for the most advanced distributed tracing on the market, coupled with powerful log management capabilities and the AI-driven insights of Lumigo Copilot Beta—empowering teams to troubleshoot faster and smarter. Now, we’re taking it a step further.

Pioneering the Future of Observability with AI

In September, Lumigo announced we were exploring how AI can help shape the next generation of observability. Since then, we’ve unveiled the beta of Lumigo Copilot, which we believe will be the most intelligent AI in observability. Today, we’re providing an update on our progress and inviting our customers to participate in the beta.

Driving Business Transformation with Cloud-Powered ERP Systems: An Overview

In today's dynamic business landscape, organizations must adapt swiftly to changing market demands and customer expectations. This calls for solutions that can streamline operations, enhance decision-making, and foster innovation. Enter cloud-powered Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems-a transformative technology reshaping how businesses operate. These solutions offer more than just tools for managing resources; they empower enterprises to achieve agility, scalability, and efficiency on an unprecedented scale.

5 Powerful Harness.io Alternatives For CI/CD, Security, And Cloud Cost Optimization

Harness.io is one of today’s most popular platforms for automating continuous delivery (CD). The platform enables engineers to build CD pipelines (Harness Smart Automation) rapidly, automatically verify code changes to reduce rollbacks (Harness Continuous Verification), and deliver enterprise-grade security (Harness Continuous Security) for teams of all sizes. With Harness Cost Management, you can even optimize your AWS cloud costs.

The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Logging

Cloud logging continues to grow in popularity and usage as more organizations transition to storing data in the cloud rather than on-premise storage. This is fueled, in part, due to the numerous advantages that can be gained from cloud logging. For example, cloud logging solutions can scale to increasing data volumes with ease as an organization grows.

Cloud Application Performance: Common Reasons for Slow-Downs

It happens often that an application, when running on bare metal, performs well. However, after the application is packed into an image, tested on Docker/Podman, then migrated to Kubernetes, performance plummets. With an increasing number of database calls issued by the application, the application response times increase. This common situation is often due to data transfer induced I/O delays.

Beyond Monitoring: A Guide to Cloud Observability

Many businesses rely on cloud infrastructure to power their software solutions. The cloud today makes it easier than ever to create services and components, increasingly the complexity of software. With more and often smaller processes, cloud-native architectures have driven the need for better insights into our software—a way to look into how these processes fit together.

Unlock Unmatched Insights: Introducing the deepest Hybrid Infrastructure Observability Platform

If you want to ensure that your infrastructure is resilient by modern standards, you need to have a deep understanding of how processes and technology impact your business. Learn how Virtana unlocks unmatched insights into your infrastructure through our Virtana AI Platform for deep hybrid infrastructure observability, to give you the deep understanding you need for a resilient infrastructure.

A complete guide on Azure SQL Reservations: Save big on your database costs

If you’re using Azure SQL Database for your applications or business, you’ve probably noticed that while the service is amazing for scalability and management, it can get expensive pretty fast. That’s where Azure SQL reservations come in. It is an awesome way to save money. In this blog, we’re going to break down what Azure SQL reservations are, how they work, and why you might want to consider them for your organization. Let’s dive in, shall we?

You now have deeper insights into Lambda ESM with these new metrics

Lambda’s Event-Source Mapping (ESM) has been a game-changer for Lambda users. It gives users an easy and cost-efficient way to process events from Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon MQ and more. It handles all the complexities around polling, including scaling the no. of pollers. And there’s no charge for this invisible layer of infrastructure!

Unlock Unmatched Insights: Introducing the *deepest* Hybrid Infrastructure Observability Platform

If you want to ensure that your infrastructure is resilient by modern standards, you need to have a deep understanding of how processes and technology impact your business metrics. Learn how Virtana unlocks unmatched insights into your infrastructure through our Virtana AI Platform for deep hybrid infrastructure observability, to give you the deep understanding you need for a resilient infrastructure.

How to Build an AI Copilot - From zero to hero

Learn how Lumigo created an ai Copilo from an idea into an expert AI-powered observability problem-solver. We'll discuss our early challenges and how we overcame them. Get an insider's look at the systematic improvements we applied, from guiding the model like a junior developer to setting up an evaluation pipeline that allowed us to monitor and scale effectively.

Streamline Cloud Networking with Terraform and Megaport

Developers, imagine this: You’ve automated your cloud infrastructure with Terraform—EC2 instances, VPCs, and security groups—seamlessly. But when it comes to external connectivity, you're stuck in email chains, waiting on approvals, and attending meetings. There’s a better way! With Megaport's Terraform provider, you can: Megaport’s software-defined network lets you code your connectivity just like your infrastructure—directly in your IDE with full support for your workflow.

10 Kubecost Alternatives For Maximum Kubernetes Cost Visibility

Kubernetes is one of the most significant advances in cloud computing since the public cloud. It provides an open-source, highly scalable, and cloud-native platform for orchestrating containerized applications. More organizations now use Kubernetes to deploy, network, scale, and manage containers at scale. In addition, the Kubernetes architecture empowers them to deploy containerized applications swiftly across various platforms, support distributed systems, and scale operations to meet demands quickly.

AWS Biggest Customers In 2025 And How Enterprise Businesses Use AWS

In June 2024, Amazon hit an astounding $2 trillion valuation, joining the elite ranks of companies like Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia. This growth was largely driven by the success of its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which holds one-third of the global cloud market share. That equals the combined market share of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud! But who are AWS’s biggest contributors to this success?

Building an economy on sustainability and innovation: the scale-up solution

Economically speaking, scale-ups deliver far greater value than their size suggests. Whilst they make up just 1% of SME firms, the ‘sub-sector’ accounts for 8% of SME employment and 22% of SME turnover. Nearly 1 million people are employed in scale-up companies and these businesses have a combined turnover of almost £500 billion. Scotland has just over 2,100 scale-ups, with a pipeline of another 1,000. The current turnover of these organisations totals just over £41bn.

Anodot achieves "Visionary" Status in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Management Tool

Here’s how Anodot became a leader in the Visionary category with its game-changing vision in FinOps and cloud-saving insights. It wasn’t just recognition from the leading authority in the technology industry but the culmination of a journey fueled by our incredible team’s dedication to providing our customers with FinOps-centric innovation and AI proprietary data. This wasn’t just any victory but an acclaimed win forged by industry-led expert leaders at our company.

Canonical provides the ideal platform for Microsoft Azure IoT Operations

London, 19 November 2024. Canonical has collaborated with Microsoft as an early adopter partner and tested Microsoft Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes, which is notable as Microsoft today released Azure IoT Operations, a unified data plane providing significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry processing and cloud-ingress.

The Key Technologies Revolutionizing Video Solutions for Businesses

Video has become a cornerstone of communication for businesses. Whether it's captivating marketing campaigns, seamless virtual meetings, or cutting-edge training tools, video solutions are revolutionizing the way companies operate and engage with their audiences. But behind the magic of compelling visuals and flawless streaming lies a suite of advanced technologies driving this transformation.

21 Practical Azure Cost Optimization Techniques To Implement Today

We see it often. Too many companies struggle to optimize their cloud costs — whichever platform they use, from Microsoft Azure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). So, in this guide, we are sharing over 20 Azure cost optimization best practices you can apply right away — all in a calorie-free, snackable guide you can read in less than a coffee break.

FinOps X Europe: Recapping an Incredible Week in Barcelona

FinOps X Europe has finished and what a success! One of the hot topics discussed during the keynote was the concept of “Scopes”, which was driven by the expanding role of the FinOps team. Expectations of the FinOps team could range anywhere from visibility for more complete unit economics to optimization of licenses to renewal negotiations. And one of the clear questions was, when does it stop? Read on for more on that.

Identify deprecated Lambda functions with Datadog

AWS Lambda supports nearly any programming language by enabling developers to run serverless functions with either supported or custom runtimes. Once a runtime is deprecated, however, AWS will set dates for when you can no longer create or update functions using that runtime. You will then need to decide what course of action to take to ensure your Lambda functions continue running as expected.

Why Deep Observability is the Key to Infrastructure Success in 2024 and Beyond

In today’s digital economy, infrastructure has evolved from your organization’s technical foundation to a strategic asset that can make or break your business outcomes. Yet, as companies embrace hybrid environments, many find themselves struggling with a critical challenge: how to maintain control and visibility across increasingly complex infrastructure landscapes and AI workloads.

Elasticsearch achieves Certified Software Solution status for Microsoft Azure

As a trusted partner in the Microsoft ecosystem, Elasticsearch has achieved another significant milestone by becoming a Certified Software Solution for Microsoft Azure. This certification not only underscores our commitment to excellence but also reflects our dedication to delivering seamless data solutions for our customers.

Cloud Control Ep #31 Balancing Innovation and Trust in Cloud Storage with Ali Zafar

In the latest episode of Cloud Control, Ali Zafar, the Vice President of Engineering for Hybrid Infrastructure at Dropbox, joins host Shon Harris to discuss the challenges of managing a multi exabyte infrastructure. Ali shares his background working at companies like Tesla, Google, and Cisco, and how they have shaped his approach to cloud and hybrid infrastructure. He emphasizes the importance of leveraging emerging technologies like AI and the significance of culture and relationships in driving innovation and efficiency.

Datadog on Cloud Workload Identities

Datadog operates dozens of Kubernetes clusters, tens of thousands of hosts, and millions of containers across a multi-cloud environment, spanning AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With over 2,000 engineers, we needed to ensure that every developer and application could securely and efficiently access resources across these various cloud providers.

Complete 2024 Guide to Amazon Bedrock: AWS Bedrock 101

We’ve all been hearing about Amazon Bedrock – and the exclusive few who could access the full scope of AWS’ new product. But what exactly is AWS Bedrock? What can it help you accomplish? And, most importantly, when can you get full access to it? Learn all you need to know about AWS’ new tool from our cloud experts.

Measuring The Scale Of AWS Data Center Locations Worldwide

In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered cloud computing as we know it today. With about 34% of the market share, Amazon Web Services remains the largest cloud infrastructure provider today, followed by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). AWS is a Cloud Service Provider (CSP). That means AWS builds, maintains, and continually improves multiple data centers worldwide and then rents the computing infrastructure to other companies over the Internet as needed.

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release

Today, Canonical announced the availability of MicroCloud’s first long term support (LTS) release. MicroCloud is part of Canonical’s cloud infrastructure portfolio. As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical is known for providing Ubuntu LTS releases every two years in April. With the addition of a MicroCloud LTS, Canonical expands its commitment to long term support for organizations looking for a scalable virtualization solution for edge and low-touch clouds.

MicroCloud LTS Demo

Canonical MicroCloud’s 2.1.0 LTS release features support for single-node deployments, improved security posture, and more flexibility during the initialization process. In this video we guide you through the new process, starting with deploying a MicroCloud on a single node, and then expanding with two additional members for a highly available cluster. Follow along and try it yourself.

What is a MicroCloud?

A MicroCloud is a new lightweight, featureful, and straightforward cloud for on-demand computing at the edge. MicroClouds differ from IoT which uses thousands of single machines or sensors to gather data, yet does not perform computing tasks. Instead, MicroClouds reuse proven cloud primitives with unattended, autonomous, and clustering features that resolve typical edge computing challenges.

How to Resolve the Disabled State Issue in Azure Logic App Standard?

In this video, Azure MVP Michael Stephenson introduces the auto-correct feature that automatically restores a disabled Logic App to its running state. Watch as Michael demonstrates how to monitor the app’s status, simulating the disabling process. The system detects the change, triggers alerts, and automatically reactivates the app, ensuring uninterrupted operation. Michael highlights the value of this feature in keeping Logic Apps running smoothly, even if they are accidentally turned off.

Navigating multi-cloud database deployments with MySQL for maximum uptime

Public cloud providers offer convenient services for database deployments. However, depending solely on a single provider’s database-as-a-service can result in vendor lock-in and reduce your system’s resilience against widespread outages affecting the provider. Instead, explore our approach to deploying MySQL across multiple clouds. A multi-cloud database strategy enables you to retain control of your infrastructure while enhancing overall resiliency and leveraging the unique strengths of each cloud provider.

Digital agencies and devs | Boost productivity and slash risks in 2025

Boost productivity and reduce risks for agencies in 2025 | Cloud application platform, Platform.sh and Upsun Welcome to our insightful session on boosting productivity and reducing risks for agencies in 2025. In this video, Greg Qualls, a sales and business consultant with over 20 years of B2B experience, and Paul Gilzow, a Developer Relations Engineer, discuss the value a cloud application platform like Platform.sh or Upsun brings to agencies and their clients.

17+ Critical SaaS Metrics To Monitor For Success

If your gross margin is lower than 60-90%, you have a weaker SaaS margin than you’d want. This margin can turn away investors, limiting the amount of capital you can raise to fund growth. Here’s the deal. It may not be a revenue issue. It may be that you are not monitoring the right SaaS metrics. The result: you are probably spending too much. You are probably also unaware of whether this reflects growth or simply overspending, thus ruining your budget and ROI.

Close Your Hybrid IT Observability Gap SolarWinds Observability SaaS or Self Hosted Solutions

As technology evolves, organizations face the challenge of modernizing their infrastructure to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and meet customer demands. But with hybrid IT setups—combining on-premises data centers, multiple cloud instances, and SaaS applications—most observability tools force compromises. The result? Gaps that impact performance, slow down issue resolution, hurt customer satisfaction, and reduce ROI.

Precision at Scale: LightMesh Advanced Filtering

Tidal LightMesh introduces Advanced Filtering, a game-changing search feature empowering organizations to seamlessly search, analyze, and manage network data. This powerful tool gives users more control, efficiency, and insight, transforming the way networks are managed. With capabilities ranging from granular filtering to powerful bulk actions, it provides a comprehensive solution for modern network management challenges.

The Ultimate Guide to AWS Logging: Tools, Types, and Techniques

AWS logs are fundamental for organizations to conduct performance analysis, troubleshooting, security monitoring, and adhere to compliance requirements. But if you’re using more than one AWS service you can quickly realize that your logs are expanding out of control across decentralized locations. Therefore it’s crucial that you can process and analyze all your AWS logs within a single centralized repository.

Why Civo joined the Open Cloud Coalition

At Civo, we’ve always believed that the cloud industry should be fair, open, and accessible to companies of all sizes - not just the select few with deep pockets and large platforms. When the Open Cloud Coalition (OCC) was first proposed, we immediately saw it as an opportunity to cut through the noise and amplify the important voices of the cloud industry.

How to Generate Azure Documents Specific to Your Team or Project

This video aims to simplify the Azure documentation process for various teams within an organization. The Document Groups feature allows users to create groups specifically for different teams, applications, or departments, making documentation more organized and accessible. With a modified tree view, users can create and manage documentation tailored to their specific team or project needs.

Autoscaling Amazon EKS with Karpenter: A Step-by-Step Guide

Managing resource scaling in EKS clusters can quickly become complex, especially with fluctuating workloads. Traditional autoscaling solutions often require predefined configurations, which can lead to inefficiencies and unnecessary costs. This is where Karpenter comes in—a powerful, open-source project designed to dynamically manage and scale nodes in response to real-time application demands.

4 DevOps Days takeaways for re:Invent, Ignite, and FinOpsXE

On October 31 the main floor of the DevOps Days TLV Expo was bustling with Halloween-themed booths of exciting DevOps vendors, offering treats for badge scans and whisky shots for “personal secrets”! It was a beautiful display of business-as-usual in unusual times—a worthy prelude to the upcoming winter event season. Here are some key lessons from the Spot by NetApp booth you might want to bring along for the upcoming FinOpsXE, Ignite, and re:Invent.

How AI Helped To Migrate 37 Apps From Heroku To AWS Under 2 Hours

Startups relying on Heroku often hit roadblocks as they scale. Rising costs, technical limitations, and lack of control over infrastructure force many to explore alternatives. One such startup recently migrated 37 applications from Heroku to AWS using Qovery’s DevOps AI Migration Agent. Here’s how they accomplished this migration in less than two hours, saving days of manual work.

AWS Vs. Azure: How To Choose The Right Cloud Provider

AWS and Azure are considered rivals in the cloud computing industry. Both offer similar services, including cloud storage, computing, container services, databases, and more. Yet, they have different strengths and weaknesses, which makes them competitors. Here’s a closer look at AWS vs. Azure to help you find the ideal match.

Akeyless Partners with MoovingON to Enhance Platform Reliability

Akeyless simplifies the deployment, access, and management of secrets without the cost and complexity of managing vaults. Their innovative technology and cloud-native architecture enable enterprises to secure DevOps cloud workloads and legacy environments, meeting compliance and regulatory requirements.

Top 24 Azure Cost Management Tools to reduce spending

Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, has become an essential part of modern businesses, offering a vast array of services and resources. However, effective cost management in Azure is crucial to avoid unexpected expenses and optimize spending. While Azure provides its native tools for cost management, several third-party solutions offer advanced features and capabilities to help you make the most of your Azure resources. This blog will explore the top 24 Azure cost management tools.

CloudWatch Metrics Your Organization Should Track

Metrics are crucial to maintaining efficiency, managing costs, and ensuring the health of cloud resources. Amazon CloudWatch can track over 100+ metrics by default across many AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, and more. In this guide, we’ll explain the different types of CloudWatch metrics and how to set them up. We’ll also help you understand how to manage and optimize expensive CloudWatch logs through a cost intelligence approach. But first…

Announcing the Open Beta of the New CloudHealth Experience

As announced at FinOps X in June, VMware Tanzu CloudHealth has been working on one of the most significant updates to the platform in its history – an enhanced and modernized experience for our users. Since then, we have shared more details about how this new experience is designed with FinOps practitioners in mind and can power FinOps practices through the Inform, Optimize, and Operate phases throughout the FinOps Framework.

From AWS EKS to AWS EKS with Qovery - 6 Reasons Why This Startup Migrated

Sometimes, even when you’re running on a solid infrastructure like AWS EKS, a growing company needs to rethink how they manage it. One startup, fresh off a successful Series A raise, found themselves in just that situation. They had been running two EKS clusters — Production and Staging — managed entirely by their CTO, who is an experienced AWS power user.

Use Datadog App Builder to peak, purge, or redrive AWS SQS.

This video aims to showcase how developers can self-serve from an application to simplify the management of their AWS cloud resources. Rather than switching between tools or reaching out to another team for help, developers can take action directly from their observability tool, enabling faster resolution of application issues. We will demonstrate how to build a simple app that allows them to minimize disruptions by quickly taking action on their SQS queues in AWS, using insights provided by Datadog.

How to Optimize Your Cloud Infrastructure with Real-Time Monitoring

Is your cloud infrastructure turning into a money pit? Despite the promise of scalability and cost-effectiveness, many businesses need help with efficient resource utilization, sluggish performance, and spiraling expenses in their cloud environments. Applications grinding to a halt during peak business hours or receiving a monthly bill that makes your CFO break out in a cold sweat are not situations you want to be in.

How Generative AI Can Prevent Downtime with AI-Powered Observability

Generative AI (GenAI) is still in its infancy, but its impact is already being felt across industries. Over the past year, production applications leveraging GenAI have gone from proof-of-concept to delivering real-world value. According to the World Economic Forum, 75% of surveyed companies plan to adopt AI technologies by 2027. Leading cloud providers like AWS are making significant investments.

Mastering Cloud Financial Management: A Guide To Optimizing Cloud Costs

On one hand, organizations are ramping up their cloud adoption to stay relevant and competitive in the market; on the other, they haven't had time to put in place the foundational mechanisms to track and check cloud costs. Through this paper, we will try to explain how cloud financial management can help large enterprises with global cloud footprints to get more value out of their cloud investments.

The Most Common Airbnb Scams and How To Avoid Them

There’s nothing worse than finding the perfect place to stay for your vacation with a great price, location, and size. This is why many people choose Airbnb because it offers flexibility, great prices, and gives you the opportunity to stay in a place for a few days or even months. Due to its popularity, hackers or scammers view it as the perfect opportunity to scam guests or hosts out of their money, ruining their vacation plans and risking their privacy.

Monitor the cost of your public sector applications with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

As federal, state, and local government agencies work to modernize their digital infrastructure and applications, managing costs effectively remains a constant challenge. Federal directives like Cloud Smart indicate the need for public sector IT organizations to track and optimize their cloud spends. However, as an organization’s IT environment grows in complexity, it becomes difficult to correlate cost data and extract useful insights.

EBS Vs. EFS: Which AWS Data Storage Solution Is Best For You

AWS currently offers eight main data storage services that cover different needs, from object storage to file and block storage. The most popular is Amazon S3, an object storage service. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) follow. Both offer persistent, secure, and scalable storage. Yet, each has a distinct architecture and use cases. In this guide, we compare EBS vs EFS to help you decide which is better for your AWS data storage needs.

Building Resilience from Architecture to Production with AWS & Gremlin

Unreliable software can have a painful impact on your customers and your business—something we’ve all seen and felt during high-profile outages. And while building on the cloud with AWS unlocks improved scaling and reliability capabilities, the complexity of modern distributed systems can potentially introduce outage-causing reliability risks. How can you be sure your systems are resilient to failure when they’re based on complex architecture, built by hundreds of teams, and are being updated almost constantly?

Azure Savings Plans and Reservations: Unlocking Cloud Cost Savings

FinOps Certified practitioner Mike Stephenson talks with Obinna Nwokolo from Microsoft's Azure team about how businesses can save money using Azure's pricing options. They explain two main ways to save: Azure savings plans, which let customers commit to a certain spending level for flexibility and reservations, where customers reserve specific resources for a set time.

An Overlook to the Future of Mobile Application Development

Client needs and expectations in mobile application development have undergone a major transformation. Comparing past trends to today, it's clear that the focus has shifted. People now need toward more sophisticated, customized, and secure solutions. In this post, we'll look at a few modern trends that will affect mobile development services in the future.

Insurtech Leader Reduces Azure Cloud Spend by $860K with Savepro

Cloud investments grow with your business, and for many companies, cloud costs can scale quickly as new services, features, and data demands enter the fold. For an Insurtech company working closely with Azure, their rapid growth brought equally expanding cloud costs. They turned to 2bcloud to help them streamline and optimize, looking for more efficient ways to manage this growth sustainably.

7 Myths of AVD Monitoring

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a powerful and increasingly popular solution that allows businesses to provide secure, scalable, and cloud-based desktop virtualization, usually without the overhead of on-prem infrastructure. However, many organizations underestimate the importance of monitoring, leading to performance, compliance, and cost issues. Today, I will debunk several common myths surrounding AVD monitoring and explain why a proactive approach can save you time, stress and billing costs.

Smooth Sailing to Amazon EKS: How Cortex Scorecards Simplify Your Kubernetes Migration

Migrating a Kubernetes cluster from a self-hosted environment to Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) offers considerable operational benefits—but this transition also brings challenges in reliability, compliance, and observability. By leveraging Cortex Scorecards, teams gain clear insights and structured benchmarks to simplify and improve the migration process. Here’s how Cortex Scorecards can make your EKS migration efficient and resilient.

How to Achieve SOC-2 Compliance on AWS

SOC-2 is a critical framework that ensures the security, availability, integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of systems and data. It is particularly important for organizations handling sensitive customer information. If you are using any cloud vendor, especially AWS, and aiming for SOC-2 certification then this article is for you. We will provide insights into how AWS supports SOC-2 compliance, and also go through a comprehensive roadmap and practical strategies for meeting these essential standards.

The Battle of AI: ChatGPT vs Gemini

We all know that AI is becoming as integral to our lives as the internet. Regardless of how you use it, whether for work or just for fun, it is a decent tool for getting information and ideas quickly. Whichever one you use, you can ask it for whatever you want without searching through dozens of web pages that are often filled with ads or data trackers. That being said, there are still privacy concerns regarding AI, so while we will look at ChatGPT vs.

A Taste of Observability - Embrace the Cloud With OpenTelemetry

Join Splunk Observability expert Kirk O'Quinn and Monster CICD Lead Graham Bucknell for a conversation on OpenTelemetry (OTel), a powerful open-source project that is transforming how we monitor and trace applications. In this informative session, we will delve into the world of Otel, exploring its history, its roadmap and we will discuss lessons, and success/failures of “Companies” journey to OpenTelemetry.

Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations: Making it More Accessible

This video introduces a feature in Turbo360 that enhances cost management by providing easy access to cost-saving recommendations from Azure Advisor. The platform organizes costs into a tree view, allowing teams to see their expenses by department or project. This structure helps teams identify savings opportunities, such as resizing virtual machines or shutting down unused resources. The aim is to empower different teams to manage their own costs and make informed decisions, ultimately leading to better cost management across the organization.

SharePoint and Microsoft Information Protection

Managing sensitive information within an organization is no easy task, particularly when it involves archiving documents that are protected by Microsoft Information Protection (MIP). The challenge lies not only in the act of archiving but in ensuring that these documents remain secure, compliant, and accessible when needed. In this article, we’ll explore the intricacies of handling MIP-protected documents in SharePoint, especially when archiving them using Squirrel.

100% ROI Guarantee: You Don't Pay If You Don't Save

Optimizing data-intensive workloads typically takes months of planning and significant human effort to put cost-saving tools and processes in place. Every passing day increases the risk of additional expenditures—outlays that cost the business money and time, and that cause delays to new revenue-generating GenAI or AgenticAI projects. Remove the risk from optimization with Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer’s 100% ROI Guarantee.

12 SaaS Reporting Tools To Consider For Your Business

SaaS has transformed from just a convenient cloud solution into the leading driver of the rapidly expanding cloud computing sector. With its market value projected to reach $716.52 billion by 2028, nearly all organizations globally will use SaaS in some capacity. Yet, SaaS without reporting is like running a business without a budget — you’re operating but have no idea where your resources are going.

Publishing Clean-up Activities to Azure DevOps Plan

This video helps users uncover and clean up unused resources in their Azure environment. It covers practical steps for detecting idle resources—like virtual machines, SQL databases, and unattached disks—that can quietly drive-up costs if left unchecked. Discover how to set up a structured cleanup plan and integrate it with Azure DevOps, enabling teams to manage cleanup tasks as work items within their workflows. By organizing and prioritizing these activities, teams can efficiently reduce waste and optimize their cloud spend.

Choosing the Right Wireless Access Point for Your Business

We all rely on the Internet to conduct business, and it has become the heart of how we work, relax, and gather information. Businesses rely on a strong internet connection to communicate with employees, hold video conferences, access cloud infrastructures, and use other business-based tools for smooth operation and collaboration. As businesses expand and demand for their platforms grows, companies need a reliable internet connection to avoid downtime and loss of money.

Snowflake Vs. Databricks: Which Data Cloud Platform Should You Use Now?

Snowflake and Databricks are both robust data platforms. Both are built for speed, scale, and cloud-native applications. They also prioritize efficiency and adherence to strict data protection protocols. Yet each adopts a distinct approach and features suited to its architecture and various use cases. It is these differences that can make all the difference in the way your data is processed, analyzed, reported, and more.

The AI Time Bomb: How Martech Can Prepare For Surging OpEx Costs

For the past two years, AI enthusiasts have been treated to a nonstop procession of lightspeed innovations. ChatGPT rang the era in with a bang; millions of blogs, emails, trivia questions, and sonnets later, Microsoft etched the writing on the wall with its $10 billion investment in OpenAI, ChatGPT’s progenitor. Since then, companies from Alphabet to Zoom have scrambled to somehow, some way, integrate AI into their core offerings.

Eliminate infrastructure and reduce maintenance costs by moving to the cloud

Today, companies are constantly searching for ways to streamline operations and gain an edge. Many, though, are weighed down by the burdens and costs of on-premises IT infrastructure. That’s why some are considering the benefits of cloud migration. In this article, we’ll take a look at cloud migration benefits and how they help you save money, scale your business and improve your operations.

Top 13 AWS Lambda Alternatives For Serverless Computing

As of 2024, the global serverless computing market is projected to reach a value of USD 21.9 billion, with expectations to grow to USD 44.7 billion by 2029. Around 70% of organizations using AWS have adopted at least one serverless solution. The adoption rates for Google Cloud and Azure are 60% and 49%, respectively. These numbers affirm that serverless is here to stay, and the demand for platforms to create and run applications is higher than ever. AWS Lambda is the most popular serverless platform.

Understanding IoT Logging Formats in Azure and AWS

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are everywhere you look. From the smartwatch on your wrist to the security cameras protecting your offices, connected IoT devices transmit all kinds of data. However, these compact devices are different from the other technologies your organization uses. Unlike traditional devices, IoT devices lack a standardized set of security capabilities, making them easier for attackers to exploit.

Product Release Notes October 2024

The easier it is for you to get data into CloudZero, the easier it’ll be to maximize your cloud efficiency. This month’s updates have entirely to do with ease of use: a drag-and-drop method to get unit cost metric data into the product, an improved MongoDB integration, and continued improvements to our AnyCost API and cost integrations.

New IT Disruptions Shake Up the Enterprise Landscape

Recent IT disruptions have been the causes of great changes in the very core of doing business worldwide, presenting both challenges and opportunities in their wake. As such, organizations continue to embrace these changes through emerging technologies, operations, workforce interactions, and customer experience. Therefore, digitization and the adoption of innovative solutions are key to maintaining competitive advantages.

Microsoft Azure Spot Virtual Machines: Your Complete Guide to Azure Spot VMs

Microsoft offers several cost-saving opportunities with Azure pricing. Azure Reserved Instances, Azure Savings Plan, Azure Hybrid Benefit… all can help you save a pretty penny if you know what you’re doing. If you’re looking to cut costs with your Azure VMs, Spot VMs can be the way to go – but the risks can be just as high as the rewards. How do you help your FinOps organization save big – and improve your chances of avoiding a complete resource shutdown?

Azure Kubernetes Service Pricing: Complete Guide to Optimizing AKS Spend

Tired of managing your Kubernetes clusters all on your own? Don’t have the time to figure out how to deploy, run, and optimize usage? Azure has just the thing for you: Azure Kubernetes Services. This article will cover everything you need to know about Azure Kubernetes Services, how it works, what the Azure pricing will be, whether you should use it, and, if so, how to save on your cloud cost.

AWS Redshift Guide: Use Cases, Pros And Cons, And Pricing

Amazon Redshift processes petabytes of data, making it one of the most popular data warehousing solutions on the market. It uses Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) technology to process massive volumes of data at lightning speeds. Plus, Redshift costs a fraction of the cost of other data platforms. This guide will provide a deeper understanding of Redshift to help you determine whether it’s the best data warehouse solution for your organization.