Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

January 2025

Sponsored Post
chaossearch

How to Discover Advanced Persistent Threats in AWS

Jan 31, 2025 By David Bunting In ChaosSearch
When it comes to managing AWS cloud security, a growing concern for security operations (SecOps teams) is the increasing sophistication of digital threats. While conventional cyber threats deploy widely known tools and techniques in crude, all-or-nothing attempts to breach enterprise security controls, sophisticated attacks known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) employ more advanced technologies and methods to gain and maintain access to secure systems for long periods of time.
Read Post
cloudzero

30 FP&A Interview Questions And How To Assess The Answers

Jan 31, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Finding trained financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals isn’t too much trouble for most companies. The tricky part is finding a candidate with the right technical and soft skills for your organization’s needs. The following interview questions will help you find a qualified FP&A professional for your company. Listen to their responses to gauge their reasoning, expertise, situational awareness, ambition, and individual attitude toward various aspects of the FP&A profession.
Read Post

Introduction to the Kelverion Automation Portal v4

Jan 31, 2025 By Kelverion In Kelverion
The Automation Portal is an easy to implement self-service front end for your automation solutions. It offers a versatile interface without the lengthy list of prerequisites required by many other self-service portals available today. Not only is it easy to implement it is even more easy for your end users to navigate. By adding a simple web interface to your runbooks you can allow users to easily interact with your automated offerings.
View Video

Optimizing Azure Budgets: A Step-by-Step Guide to Configuring Sub-Threshold Alerts

Jan 31, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Optimizing Azure Budgets: A Step-by-Step Guide to Configuring Sub-Threshold Alerts This video explains how users can create sub-threshold alerts. Michael Stephenson (Product owner for Turbo360) demonstrates how users can set up alerts for different thresholds (like 50% and 75%) of their monthly budget. This enables users to receive notifications before hitting the overall budget limit.
View Video
console connect

What's new with Microsoft Azure for 2025

Jan 30, 2025 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
Microsoft Azure remains the second largest cloud service provider with 24% of the market share globally but boasts the most availability zones, spanning 60+ regions worldwide. Over the past 12 months, the platform has seen major advancements across AI and infrastructure, and we share some of the highlights in this blog.
Read Post
spot

How to get more value from your cloud commitments

Jan 30, 2025 By Shelly Srour Cook In Spot
If you are familiar with the cloud, you already know that the big hyperscalers offer a set of pricing models that provide varying levels of flexibility and discounts. The most common models are On-Demand (OD), Commitments—such as Reserved Instances (RI), Savings Plans (SP), Committed Use Discounts (CUD), and preemptive instances like spot instances/spot VMs.
Read Post
icinga

Common cloud monitoring challenges we can overcome!

Jan 29, 2025 By Jan Schuppik In Icinga
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are moving their operations to the cloud more than ever before. This shift brings incredible benefits like scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. While it does introduce various common cloud monitoring challenges, there are effective solutions that organizations can implement to ensure optimal performance, security, and cost control.
Read Post
eg innovations

Top Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services Explained with Use Cases

Jan 29, 2025 By Babu Sundaram In eG Innovations
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure Google uses internally for its products, such as Google Search and YouTube. With a global network of data centers, GCP offers over 200 fully managed services spanning compute, storage, databases, AI/ML, analytics, networking, and more, enabling businesses to innovate and scale without heavy upfront infrastructure costs.
Read Post

The power of cloud native observability

Jan 29, 2025 By Sumo Logic In Sumo Logic
Unstructured data clouding your observability goals? Learn why monitoring alone cannot solve business-critical performance issues as Sr. Director of Technical Marketing Adam White explains how combining structured and unstructured data with real-time analytics unlocks dynamic insights into root cause analysis and performance management in the cloud.
View Video
cloudzero

Heroku Vs. AWS: Which Cloud Solution Fits Your Development Needs?

Jan 29, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
It’s often said that Heroku is ideal for developers who prioritize rapid and straightforward application deployment. Meanwhile, AWS is seen as the ideal choice for applications requiring advanced scalability and intensive performance. Yet, as both platforms have evolved, their offerings have expanded, and some overlaps have emerged, making it more challenging to distinguish their strengths and limitations.
Read Post
megaport

How to Deploy Amazon Bedrock Using AWS Direct Connect and Megaport

Jan 29, 2025 By Todd Wenzel In Megaport
Discover how you can use Megaport to access Amazon Bedrock via AWS Direct Connect for secure AI connections. Based on our recent conversations with networking teams and AWS users, 2025 is the year for implementing AI rather than just talking about it. But for many organizations starting their generative AI journey, a major concern is keeping data secure and private when it’s used for model tuning. This is just what Amazon Bedrock was made for.
Read Post
manageengine

What is cloud cost management?

Jan 28, 2025 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine
What is cloud cost management? Cloud cost management (CCM) is essential for organizations looking to harness the power of the cloud without succumbing to its potential financial pitfalls. With the shift towards cloud-based operations accelerating, the need to manage the associated costs has never been more critical. The scope of CCM is broad, covering several key areas such as cost visibility, budgeting, forecasting, cost optimization, and governance.
Read Post
Sponsored Post
almaden ai

4 Rising Trends in Enterprises: Cloud, Automation, Experience, and Compliance

Jan 28, 2025 By Almaden AI In Almaden AI
When you're running a business, you have a bunch of different tools and processes that you need to manage in order to keep everything running smoothly. It's kind of like having a bunch of different puzzle pieces that you need to fit together just right in order to create a complete picture. Now, let's say you want to take your business to the next level - maybe you want to expand your customer base, improve your productivity, or streamline your operations.
Read Post
cloudzero

Fargate Vs. Lambda: Understanding AWS Serverless Solutions

Jan 28, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Things are changing. Technology differences between serverless and container-based systems are rapidly blurring. In 2020, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enabled AWS Lambda to package and deploy functions as container images instead of bundling all of a function’s code and dependencies in a.zip file. Today, more organizations are increasingly deploying Lambda functions as Docker container images. These companies want to reap the benefits of serverless computing, containers, and container orchestration.
Read Post
turbo360

FinOps for Engineers

Jan 28, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
FinOps for engineers is gaining more and more ground in the cloud computing sphere. As organizations move toward cloud models, managing the costs associated with them becomes an increasingly important factor, if not the most important. FinOps focuses on optimizing the use of cloud resources. Therefore, FinOps for engineers means that they not only design necessary solutions but also warn about the economic impact.
Read Post
cloudzero

What Is The Cloud? A Beginner's Guide

Jan 27, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
YouTube. Netflix. Uber. Spotify. TikTok. You name it. You sign up and get your own account. Once you set it up however you want, you can access it from any internet-enabled device, including smartphones and smartwatches. If your device breaks, or is lost, or you switch to a new one, you can still access your account, as well as its settings and information, from another device without having to recreate everything from scratch.
Read Post
turbo360

FinOps IT Asset Management: A Strategic Approach

Jan 27, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
FinOps IT Asset Management(ITAM) is one of the modern trends in the IT field, which is gaining increasing popularity among organizations in order to manage their financial processes and technological tools. When the FinOps term appeared simultaneously with the ITAM term, it became clear that their integration would offer the following advantages: better control of costs, optimized resource management, and legal compliance.
Read Post
Sponsored Post
manageengine

What to look for in an Azure monitoring solution: A checklist

Jan 26, 2025 By ManageEngine In ManageEngine
Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform known for its ability to build and deliver flexible and scalable cloud services efficiently. However, the complexity within the Azure cloud network increases with the size and functions of cloud services deployed. To untangle the complexities and understand the Azure cloud, you need to have clear visibility into your Azure services and applications at any given moment. This can only be achieved by monitoring Azure cloud in real time.
Read Post
site24x7

Recap: Site24x7's takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024

Jan 26, 2025 By Sinjan Ballav In Site24x7
AWS re:Invent 2024 brought together cloud innovators, developers, and business leaders to explore the future of technology and cloud computing. This year’s event focused on three major themes that resonated throughout the sessions and announcements: AI, observability, and cloud optimization. These themes underline the evolution of cloud ecosystems and the growing need for smarter, more proactive tools to manage and optimize them.
Read Post
datadog

Monitor unit economics with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Jan 24, 2025 By Natasha Goel In Datadog
Cloud unit economics measures the amount an organization spends on cloud services to achieve a discrete business outcome such as a conversion, sign-up, or checkout. Your cloud spending may increase as your applications get more usage and the complexity of your cloud environment grows.
Read Post
megaport

Azure Private Link, Explained

Jan 24, 2025 By Gary Taylor In Megaport
Azure Private Link is Microsoft’s ultimate offering to get secure, scalable connectivity for your services. Here’s everything you need to know about it. Whether you’re working with a hybrid cloud environment, multi-region deployments, or simply looking to secure access to Microsoft Azure’s platform services, this hyperscaler provides a variety of connectivity options tailored to different needs.
Read Post
pulsant

Opportunity Will Arise From Uncertainty In 2025

Jan 24, 2025 By Rob Coupland, Chief Executive Officer In Pulsant
As January 2025 draws to a close, the challenges of 2024 still resonate. Last year was exceptionally turbulent for both businesses and individuals, driven in large part by geopolitical tensions, the cost-of-living crisis, and widespread economic uncertainty. According to November ONS figures, 57% of businesses reported experiencing turnover challenges, with 23% citing economic uncertainty as the primary cause.
Read Post
opsmatters

Ensuring robust data protection with Azure DevOps backup solutions

Jan 24, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Data protection is a cornerstone in modern DevOps environments. As software development evolves, the need for robust backup solutions becomes increasingly critical. Azure DevOps provides essential tools to safeguard your data and ensure operational continuity.
Read Post
turbo360

FinOps Data Ingestion

Jan 23, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
FinOps, has become a critical element within companies that want to improve their financial aspect related with cloud. One of the key points in this practice is data ingestion that helps companies gather critical information about their cloud spending. In this guide, we will discuss what data ingestion is in FinOps, its need, recommendations, problems, and how we can contribute at Turbo360.
Read Post
lumigo

Developers are Troubleshooting Directly in Slack and Teams with AI

Jan 22, 2025 By Orr Weinstein In Lumigo
“I asked Lumigo Copilot to provide context about issues from my phone. It saved me triaging time and also helped me understand who the relevant developer is to handle the alert, which keeps me from wasting someone else’s time” – Lior Mechlovich, CTO & Co-Founder, Salespeak. This quote from one of our beta users captures the power of Lumigo Copilot in Slack. Troubleshooting doesn’t have to be tedious.
Read Post
cloudzero

Azure Blob Storage Pricing Breakdown: Your Guide For 2025

Jan 22, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage stands out as a scalable, reliable, and versatile cloud storage solution for modern businesses. The block storage platform is also popular for replicating data across multiple data centers. This redundancy safeguards your records in case of data center failures or regional disasters. These capabilities come at a cost, which impacts your bottom line. Let’s break down how much Blob Storage costs, including the key factors that influence Azure Blob Storage pricing.
Read Post
site24x7

Top AWS monitoring trends in 2025

Jan 22, 2025 By Sinjan Ballav In Site24x7
As cloud technologies continue to evolve, so does the way we monitor and manage AWS environments. In 2025, AWS monitoring is shifting to accommodate the increasing complexity and scale of cloud infrastructures. From AI-driven tools that predict issues before they occur to enhanced observability features that improve performance, these trends are revolutionizing how organizations keep their AWS resources in check.
Read Post
cloudzero

New Relic Cost Optimization: 9 Surefire Ways To Cut Your Observability Costs

Jan 21, 2025 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
New Relic has established itself as a top observability platform with full-stack monitoring. Unifying all telemetry data — metrics, events, logs, and traces — into one platform delivers deep performance insights and enables faster troubleshooting without juggling multiple tools. Also, New Relic prioritizes developers with tools like CodeStream, integrating error details and telemetry directly into the IDE.
Read Post
spot

The DevOps-FinOps interface in 2025: Engaging with engineers for better cloud performance

Jan 21, 2025 By Li-Or Amir In Spot
As we look towards 2025, the relationship between engineering and FinOps teams is increasingly pivotal. For FinOps to truly succeed, it must engage with all its stakeholders effectively—particularly engineers who play a central role in generating cloud costs. Unfortunately, FinOps professionals often encounter communication barriers with engineers, including differences in terminology, information, and expectations.
Read Post
cloudzero

New Relic Cost Optimization: 9 Surefire Ways To Cut Your Observability Costs

Jan 21, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
New Relic has established itself as a top observability platform with full-stack monitoring. Unifying all telemetry data — metrics, events, logs, and traces — into one platform delivers deep performance insights and enables faster troubleshooting without juggling multiple tools. Also, New Relic prioritizes developers with tools like CodeStream, integrating error details and telemetry directly into the IDE.
Read Post
lumigo

Lumigo Upgrades Kubernetes Operator for More Insights, Exponential Savings, and Simplicity

Jan 21, 2025 By Orr Weinstein In Lumigo
We’re excited to introduce the enhanced Lumigo Kubernetes Operator, now more powerful than ever. With just a quick installation, you gain comprehensive observability—bringing together logs, metrics, and traces in a single platform to provide deeper insights and faster troubleshooting. The improved Lumigo Kubernetes Operator unlocks cluster-wide visibility by collecting key infrastructure metrics and logs—allowing you to monitor, analyze, and optimize with minimal effort.
Read Post
last9

How to Build a Cloud Strategy That Works for Your Business

Jan 21, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
As technology advances at lightning speed, more and more businesses are turning to the cloud to boost growth, improve efficiency, and stay ahead of the competition. However creating a cloud strategy that matches your business goals, budget, and security needs can be tricky. It’s not just about switching to the cloud—it’s about using it wisely to get the most out of it.
Read Post

Cloud Control #30 The Hybrid Future: Blending Cloud, On-Prem, and AI with Matthew Garrepy

Jan 21, 2025 By Spot In Spot
"We're all digital businesses now. We're all AI businesses on some level." -- Matt Garrepy Join host Shon Harris as he sits down with Matt Garrepy, Chief Digital Officer at Solodev, to explore the evolving landscape of cloud computing and digital experiences. From the early days of AWS adoption to the current trends in AI and blockchain, Matt shares insights on composable architectures, the MACH Alliance, and the future of enterprise software.
View Video

Cloud Control #34: GPU Economics: The Cloud's Next Big Challenge with Tolga Tarhan

Jan 21, 2025 By Spot In Spot
In this episode of Cloud Control, host Shon Harris sits down with Tolga Tarhan to explore the evolution of cloud computing and the transformative impact of AI on infrastructure management. With 25 years of experience and former roles as CEO of Kibisi and CTO at Rackspace Technology, Tolga shares compelling perspectives on the industry's journey from physical data centers to cloud-native architectures, while addressing critical questions about GPU computing, data infrastructure scaling, and the future of AI adoption.
View Video
manageengine

Five AWS cloud financial management best practices that can increase cost efficiency

Jan 20, 2025 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine
AWS cloud financial management Enterprises increasingly rely on the cloud to fuel innovation, optimize operations, and scale effortlessly; cloud cost management has become both a strategic imperative and a competitive advantage. Yet, the journey to achieving cost efficiency can be riddled with pitfalls, especially for organizations that lack robust financial management practices.
Read Post

Azure Cost Optimization Tips: Tackle Azure Waste & Technical Debt

Jan 20, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
This video explores Turbo360's new feature, which is designed to help you optimize Azure resources, reduce costs, and tackle technical debt. The recommendations feature provides actionable insights to optimize your Azure environment and improve cost visibility. Key Takeaways: How the recommendations feature works to optimize Azure environments. The step-by-step process of viewing, downloading, and analyzing recommendations. How to create tasks based on these insights for team action, promoting decentralized cost management.
View Video
cloudzero

Cloud Testing Tools: Features, Benefits, And Top Examples For 2025

Jan 20, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
It’s a fast-paced digital landscape out there. So, building a reliable platform for your customers is crucial. They need assurance that your platform won’t be plagued by bugs, downtime, or outages, ensuring business continuity. This isn’t the stuff of traditional manual testing and quality assurance. Instead, you’ll want to empower your developers and QA teams with solid cloud testing tools.
Read Post
turbo360

26 Azure Cost Optimization Best Practices to Reduce Azure Cost

Jan 20, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Microsoft Azure is one of the diverse cloud platforms available today. It gives many helpful services for businesses of all sizes. But, when an organization grows its cloud usage, then managing costs becomes an issue. Microsoft Azure cost optimization is not just about reducing costs. It is about getting better performance & efficiency while staying under budget. Right here, this blog is your go-to guide in Azure cost optimization strategies and ways to save your money.
Read Post
manageengine

What is a load balancer? And how does it help handle network traffic?

Jan 17, 2025 By CloudDNS In ManageEngine
A load balancer, also known as Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), is the method of splitting and distributing the incoming network traffic to multiple hosts—which can be located at different geo locations—within the organization network. This helps the network effectively manage network traffic and prevent any delays in network services. With load balancing enabled in the hosts, the organization’s network services are faster and provide more reliable responses to clients.
Read Post
turbo360

Azure Cost Per Resource Group to monitor and optimize costs

Jan 17, 2025 By Shane Kilip Santiago In Turbo360
Understanding the cost of Azure resources at a granular level is critical for managing budgets effectively. With resources deployed across different resource groups-be it by teams, departments, or projects-tracking expenses can become complex. By analyzing costs per resource group, organizations can allocate ownership, identify cost spikes, and ensure accountability.
Read Post
datadog

Stay ahead of service disruptions with Watchdog Cloud & API Outage Detection

Jan 17, 2025 By Hugo Pucéat In Datadog
Even with the best monitoring in place, outages are unavoidable. Complex, modern IT environments rely on multiple third-party services, including critical cloud and API providers, and when any one of those goes down, it can trigger a domino effect of increased error rates and latency spikes across your system. And, because you don’t have as much visibility into external services, it can be difficult to identify that the problem is due to an outside outage or disrupted service.
Read Post
atatus

Why Move from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2? Advantages, Pricing Comparison, and Migration Guide

Jan 17, 2025 By Pavithra Parthiban In Atatus
Amazon S3 is a leading object storage service, but its pricing model, particularly for data egress, often becomes a significant burden for businesses with high outbound data needs. Cloudflare R2, a relatively new option, offers an attractive alternative with its simplified pricing and performance benefits. In this blog, we will explore why you should consider moving from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2, compare their pricing with real-world examples, and provide a step-by-step migration guide with Node.js code.
Read Post
cloudzero

Elevate Your Business Strategy With These 10 Financial Reporting Tools

Jan 17, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Financial reporting tools help businesses of all sizes manage budgets, track performance, and make informed decisions. By automating repetitive tasks, they save time, reduce errors and improve accuracy. The demand for these tools is skyrocketing. In 2024, the market was valued at $14.94 billion and is expected to reach $37.56 billion by 2031. The rise of cloud-based solutions and the need for real-time financial insights are major drivers behind this growth.
Read Post
opsmatters

4 Common Mistakes in Cloud Storage Management and How to Avoid Them

Jan 17, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Cloud storage has become an unavoidable tool for both personal and professional data. However, everyone has the same problem regarding storage management and this kind of issue often becomes irritating. There are certain things you should know to learn how to manage this tool effectively, and with the 4 common mistakes provided in this article, you will know what to avoid.
Read Post
megaport

Your Questions Answered on Simplifying Hybrid and Multicloud Network Connectivity

Jan 16, 2025 By Chris Gunn In Megaport
Dive into the highlights of our webinar Q&A with Aviatrix for expert guidance on how to streamline your network using Aviatrix and Megaport. Co-authored by Tim McConnaughy, Technical Marketing Engineer, Aviatrix In September 2024, we held a webinar with Aviatrix that had our team buzzing for weeks afterwards.
Read Post
2bcloud

Mastering Azure AI Search: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your First POC

Jan 16, 2025 By Evgeniy Golovashev In 2bcloud
Azure AI Search transforms unstructured data into actionable insights, making it ideal for enterprise search, knowledge mining, or customer-facing applications. This guide offers a step-by-step approach to building your first POC—from setting up resources and defining KPIs to deploying a functional application. You’ll learn core POC components, how to organize datasets, enhance search with Azure OpenAI, and evaluate results effectively. Let’s get started!
Read Post
last9

Cloudcraft: A Simple Tool for Cloud Architecture Design

Jan 16, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Cloudcraft is a tool that lets cloud architects design and visualize cloud infrastructure. It acts as a digital canvas, helping you map out everything from simple diagrams to complex systems. If you’re working on a project plan or brainstorming ideas, Cloudcraft makes it easier to see how all the pieces come together. In this post, we’ll talk about what makes Cloudcraft useful for cloud professionals and how to get the most out of it.
Read Post
last9

CloudWatch Metrics: Key Features, Working & Cost Management

Jan 16, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When it comes to monitoring and managing applications and infrastructure on AWS, CloudWatch Metrics is your best friend. CloudWatch helps you track key metrics in real time, providing the data you need to maintain system performance, troubleshoot issues, and gain deeper insights into your environment. But like most things in AWS, it can take some getting used to. To help you make the most of CloudWatch Metrics, we've put together this comprehensive guide.
Read Post
opsmatters

Emerging Trends In Cloud-Based Monitoring Solutions for 2025

Jan 16, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Cloud-based monitoring evolves constantly. Systems must adapt to complex environments, stay secure, and deliver fast insights. The year 2025 holds promise for tools that go beyond standard data tracking. Organizations demand seamless integration and actionable information in real-time. These emerging trends are set to revolutionize how companies monitor performance and ensure stability. Ready to explore these innovations shaping the future of monitoring? Stay ahead with solutions designed for tomorrow's challenges.
Read Post
manageengine

Top cloud cost management tools in 2025 that will transform your cloud journey

Jan 15, 2025 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine
Top cloud cost management tools in 2025 The cloud has revolutionized the way businesses operate, enabling scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. However, the growing complexity of cloud environments often leads to unexpected costs, making cloud cost management (CCM) essential for organizations striving to optimize their budgets. In 2025, organizations are turning to advanced CCM tools to keep their budgets in check and optimize resource utilization.
Read Post
cloudzero

Databricks Cost Optimization: 8 Tips To Maximize Value

Jan 15, 2025 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
Data engineering. Data science. Machine learning. Data governance. These are just a few of the many capabilities that make Databricks a favorite among developers and data engineers. Yet, most have one common complaint — its cost. Some say it’s too expensive, especially for small and medium-sized organizations. Others find it hard to justify using the platform due to budget limits. In addition, maintaining and running data warehouses can be costly.
Read Post

Scheduled Resource Recommendations in Azure | Azure Cost Optimization

Jan 15, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
The video showcases a new feature in Turbo360 that allows users to schedule the turning on and off, as well as rightsizing of their Azure resources. Michael Stephenson (product owner for Turbo360) explains how this feature helps users optimize their resources by automatically scheduling actions such as turning off Virtual Machines (VMs) during non-peak hours and scaling them based on usage.
View Video
speedscale

What Are Cloud Development Environments?

Jan 14, 2025 By Josh Thornton In Speedscale
Especially, if you have a globally distributed team, CDEs give you a smoother developer experience just by its online nature. Instead of wrestling with conflicting dependencies, trudging with inconsistent local setups, or waiting for your code to compile, you have a powerful, instantly accessible development environment in the cloud. CDEs remove typical limitations like hardware and scalability.
Read Post
civo

Is the Cloud Broken? Rethinking Simplicity, Value, and Purpose in Cloud Computing

Jan 14, 2025 By Mark Boost In Civo
As someone deeply embedded in the cloud-native space, I’ve witnessed how the rapid evolution of cloud computing has unlocked remarkable opportunities—but also introduced significant challenges. Recently, I revisited some research we conducted back in 2022, which revealed a critical trend: despite the hundreds of services offered by the major cloud providers (the Big Three hyperscalers), most businesses use fewer than 10 services from their cloud provider.
Read Post
cloudzero

Amazon Bedrock Pricing: How Much It Costs (And Handy Bedrock Cost Optimization Tips)

Jan 14, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
If you are reading this, you likely understand how Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can improve your organization, from operational efficiency to boosting your bottom line. Yet, setting up and running a robust AI infrastructure, including a massive dataset for training and specialized tools, can be expensive. Amazon Bedrock wants to simplify this challenge, enabling you to build generative AI applications faster and easier. But is Amazon Bedrock pricing worth it?
Read Post
opsmatters

8 Evolving IT Services That Enhance Business Continuity

Jan 14, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
These days, with everything moving so quickly online, businesses really can't take too long to be offline. When things go down, everything can grind to a halt, customers get annoyed, and you could lose a lot of money from just one hiccup. But a new vibe is coming in with IT services offering solutions to keep things running smoothly, even when problems arise. Here's how evolving technology transforms business continuity from a luxury into a standard practice.
Read Post
datadog

Monitor Cloud Run with Datadog

Jan 13, 2025 By Jordan Obey In Datadog
In part 1 of this series, we introduced the key Cloud Run metrics you should be monitoring to ensure that your serverless containerized applications are reliable and can maintain optimal performance. In part 2, we walked through a couple of Google Cloud’s built-in monitoring tools that you can use to view those key metrics and check on the health, status, and performance of your serverless containers.
Read Post
datadog

How to collect Google Cloud Run metrics

Jan 13, 2025 By Jordan Obey In Datadog
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at key Cloud Run metrics you can monitor to ensure the reliability and performance of your serverless containerized workloads. We’ll now explore how you can access those metrics within Cloud Run and Google’s dedicated observability tool, Cloud Monitoring. We’ll also look at several ways you can view and explore logs and traces in the Cloud Run UI and Google Cloud CLI.
Read Post
datadog

Key metrics for monitoring Google Cloud Run

Jan 13, 2025 By Jordan Obey In Datadog
Google Cloud Run is a fully managed platform that enables you to deploy and scale container-based serverless workloads. Cloud Run is built on top of Knative, an open source platform that extends Kubernetes with serverless capabilities like dynamic auto-scaling, routing, and event-driven functions. By using Cloud Run, developers can simply write and package their code as container images and deploy to Cloud Run—all without worrying about managing or maintaining any underlying infrastructure.
Read Post
gremlin

Maximizing your reliability on AWS

Jan 13, 2025 By Andre Newman In Gremlin
Cloud providers like AWS excel at creating reliable platforms for developers to build on. But while the platforms may be rock-solid, this doesn’t guarantee your applications will be too. It’s the provider’s job to offer stable infrastructure, but you’re still on the hook for making your workloads resilient, recoverable, and fault-tolerant. There’s only one problem: cloud platforms are essentially black boxes.
Read Post
Sunbird

Why Are More Companies Repatriating Workloads from the Cloud?

Jan 10, 2025 By Sunbird In Sunbird
Over the past decade, many businesses of all sizes have embraced the cloud for its scalability and promise of cost savings. The cloud has been credited for helping companies innovate faster, expand globally, and offload infrastructure management to providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. However, as cloud adoption matures, a noticeable shift is occurring.
Read Post

Proactive Azure Cost Anomaly Detection

Jan 10, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Getting hit with unexpected Azure bills that leaves you wondering what happened. What if you could spot those cost spikes proactively within in minutes before the damage is done? This video walks you through proactively detecting cost anomalies in Azure, helping you keep your budget in check and avoid surprises. Turbo360 shows you easy, actionable ways to track your Azure spending, find out what's eating up your resources, and stay on top of your cloud costs.
View Video
puppet

Cloud Repatriation: Examples, Unpacking 2025 Trends & Tips for Reverse Migration

Jan 9, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
If you moved to the cloud hoping for cost savings and scalability only to find that your cloud costs are ballooning, your cloud performance isn’t up to snuff, or you’re always struggling to align compliance regulations with your cloud deployment, it might be time to look into cloud repatriation as an alternative to public cloud infrastructure. Moving anything from public cloud to private cloud or on-prem infrastructure this year?
Read Post
Internxt

Unlocking the Full Potential of Cloud Automation for Your Business

Jan 9, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
Long gone are the days of manually configuring your cloud storage to meet customers' growing needs and demands. Now, businesses can enjoy a more flexible, stable, efficient, and secure means of storing data with various cloud architectures and storage methods. From S3 storage to cloud storage for teams, the tech world has never been so promising for companies to manage their data.
Read Post
kublr

Kublr Makes Kubernetes RBAC Easy Across Multi-Cloud Environments

Jan 9, 2025 By Kublr Team In Kublr
Managing Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) across multiple clusters and clouds can be a complex challenge, especially for enterprises that require tight integration with existing identity management systems. Enter Kublr, a robust Kubernetes cluster management platform designed to simplify operations with its user-friendly interface, enterprise-grade features, and security-focused capabilities.
Read Post
opsmatters

Mastering Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and AWS DevOps Consulting

Jan 9, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Modern DevOps depends heavily on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which lets companies control and provide their IT infrastructure using code instead of hand-written procedures. Because of its adaptability and fit with many cloud providers, including AWS, Terraform, an open-source IaC tool developed by HashiCorp, has become a favorite alternative for many. The basis of Terraform, how it interacts with AWS, and how AWS DevOps consultancy might enhance your IaC procedures are investigated in this article.
Read Post
tidal

Transformative Assessments in Tidal Accelerator

Jan 8, 2025 By Amber Weaver In Tidal
Cloud migrations can be complex, but they don’t have to be overwhelming. With the Tidal Accelerator platform, we’ve simplified the process, enabling organizations to not only migrate to the cloud efficiently by embracing the full spectrum of cloud migration methods, but also plan for a modernized infrastructure that supports long-term success. Here’s how Tidal Accelerator makes it possible.
Read Post
lumigo

Introducing CloudWatch Metric Stream Support in Lumigo

Jan 8, 2025 By Winston Bowden In Lumigo
At Lumigo, we are constantly working to help you gain full visibility into your AWS environments with minimal friction. That’s why we’re excited to announce our support for CloudWatch Metric Stream. Now, AWS users can easily send their CloudWatch metrics to Lumigo to create dashboards, set alerts, and unify all their observability data—traces, logs, and metrics—into one powerful, centralized view.
Read Post
megaport

How to Fix Poor AWS Latency

Jan 8, 2025 By David Sloan In Megaport
Find out how to reduce your latency and get better network performance from the leading cloud service provider. In the modern business world, AWS is everywhere. According to HG Insights, the leading hyperscaler has over 50% market share, with 2.38 million businesses worldwide using AWS cloud services in 2024. One of the top questions we hear AWS users ask is how they can make their AWS connection faster.
Read Post
manageengine

AWS cloud monitoring: How Applications Manager can help

Jan 7, 2025 By General In ManageEngine
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a popular cloud platform known for its scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, its dynamic nature and its complex architecture make real-time monitoring a challenge without a dedicated AWS monitoring tool. IT teams that operate in the AWS cloud need to keep an eye on every corner of the cloud infrastructure to ensure smooth IT operations.
Read Post
anodot

Anodot vs. Cast AI: Which FinOps Platform Delivers All-Inclusive Value?

Jan 7, 2025 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
There’s no doubt about Kubernetes’ importance for success in the cloud. It offers a cost-efficient, scalable, and automated platform for managing containerized applications while simplifying operations. Cast AI is a well-established platform specializing in Kubernetes optimization, including workload rightsizing and cluster autoscaling. But is that enough for MSPs and enterprises prioritizing cloud costs?
Read Post
pulsant

Looking beyond the M25 to drive regional data centre growth

Jan 7, 2025 By Mark Lewis In Pulsant
The Foundations of the Future report commissioned by techUK, and developed by Henham Strategy, makes for incredible reading. As a sector, the UK data centre industry is worth £4.7 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA) annually, supporting 43,500 jobs and contributing £640 million in revenue to the exchequer. When you consider that this has happened in less than 35 years, this is remarkable.
Read Post
turbo360

Azure Budget Monitoring Tools to Empower Cost Efficiency

Jan 7, 2025 By Praveena Jayanarayanan In Turbo360
Cloud adoption brings agility and scalability, but without effective cost monitoring, cloud expenses can spiral out of control. Microsoft Azure offers robust budget monitoring tools to help businesses manage and optimize cloud spending. These tools enable real-time tracking, forecasting, and alerting for Azure budgets, ensuring efficient cost management and avoiding unexpected expenses.
Read Post
cloudzero

Product Release Notes December 2024

Jan 7, 2025 By Anand Sundaram In CloudZero
As we step into 2025, we’re thrilled to reflect on the strides we’ve made in December and all throughout the last year to empower the FinOps and cloud cost management practices of our customers. These updates mark another milestone in our journey to continuously improve your experience, providing the insights and control you need to manage cloud costs efficiently.
Read Post

Azure Reservation Recommendations: Enhancing Visibility for Teams to Drive Savings

Jan 7, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Azure Reservation Recommendations In this video, Michael Stephenson (product owner for Turbo360) introduces recent enhancements in the tool aimed at improving cost visibility and Azure Reservation Recommendations to maximize cost savings.
View Video
speedscale

What is Traffic Mirroring: A Complete Guide

Jan 6, 2025 By Kush Mansingh In Speedscale
Ensuring seamless data flow and robust application performance is crucial in modern networking and cloud computing. Traffic mirroring enables enhanced network observability, allows for effective troubleshooting, and facilitates the testing of new features without interrupting live traffic. It captures and replicates network traffic, providing a powerful solution for maintaining and optimizing network operations.
Read Post
datadog

Monitor your multi-cloud costs with Cloud Cost Management and FOCUS

Jan 6, 2025 By Natasha Goel In Datadog
Monitoring cloud costs can be complex. When those costs span more than one cloud service provider (CSP) or SaaS provider, that complexity can make it difficult to understand your overall spending. Datadog Cloud Cost Management (CCM) enables teams to understand cloud costs, but each provider tags its cost data differently. Teams need to understand each provider’s unique cost data model before they can make sense of their costs in each cloud.
Read Post
cloudzero

Top Cloud Cost News From December 2024

Jan 6, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
It might not be anywhere near springtime yet, but it’s still the perfect time to plant seeds for your brand new (or redesigned, or fine-tuned …) cost management strategy for 2025. To make sure your foundation is solid as you move forward, take advantage of these helpful resources for building and refining your FinOps practice: Think of brushing up on all this knowledge as the business version of hitting the gym for the new year.
Read Post
opsmatters

How Cloud Servers Boost Speed, Reliability, and Profitability for Traders

Jan 5, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Forex trading moves fast, and every millisecond can make or break a deal. I've seen how technology has revolutionized this space, and one game-changer that stands out is the use of cloud servers. They've become a vital tool for traders looking to stay ahead in this highly competitive market.
Read Post

The Future of Cloud Native: Beyond the Kubernetes Hype Cycle with Michael Levan

Jan 3, 2025 By Spot In Spot
Discover the future of cloud native technologies in this episode of Cloud Control! Host Shon Harris sits down with Michael Levan to dive into the Kubernetes ecosystem, open source communities, and what lies ahead for cloud native tech. Learn about Michael’s journey from systems administration to becoming part of the Kubernetes release team, and get an inside look at the Kubernetes release process. We’ll also explore how geopolitical factors influence open source and hear predictions on the next big trends in cloud native technology.
View Video
cloudzero

60 SaaS Tools Dominating The Market In 2025

Jan 3, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
SaaS tools enable companies of all sizes to get to market quickly, enhance their service delivery, and improve efficiency. By leveraging “ready-to-go” and “proven” platforms, SaaS companies can also avoid building systems from scratch, which is time-consuming and costly. Yet, 61% of companies have over 100 SaaS applications, which can be overwhelming to manage. Orphaned subscriptions are also common. Most companies regularly use only about half of their SaaS stack.
Read Post
turbo360

7 Best Azure Service Bus Monitoring Tools in 2025

Jan 2, 2025 By Sabari Rohith Nachimuthu In Turbo360
Azure Service Bus is a cloud messaging service that transfers information between services running in both the cloud and on-premises. So, it becomes essential to ensure the performance and availability of Service Bus as it might be used in applications and integrations for transferring business-critical messages. To help you with that, we have listed and compared the top Azure Service Bus monitoring tools with their features.
Read Post
turbo360

6 Best Azure FinOps Tools for Cost Optimization (2025)

Jan 2, 2025 By Swathi Thangapandi In Turbo360
FinOps is an evolving concept increasingly practiced in cloud computing organizations to manage and optimize their infrastructure cost. It requires team collaboration among Finance, Engineering and IT Operations to gain a deep understanding of the expenditure, take financial accountability, and make informed decisions to maximize the business performance.
Read Post
2bcloud

Solving E-Commerce's Cold Start Problem with Azure ML

Jan 2, 2025 By Mark Valman In 2bcloud
Imagine visiting an e-commerce site that instantly understands your preferences, offering tailored product recommendations from the first click. For our client, this vision was about creating a seamless, engaging experience for new users by providing immediate, personalized suggestions. Using Azure ML Studio, we turned this vision into reality by solving key challenges like the “cold start problem” and building a robust recommendation system. Here’s how we made it happen.
Read Post
turbo360

Top 5 Azure Monitoring tools to maximize application and service performance

Jan 1, 2025 By serverless360 In Turbo360
Many organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud or begin leveraging what the cloud offers. However, to keep their businesses up and running during this process, organizations still require integrating their systems in the cloud, like Dynamics365, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, with Azure Integration Services (AIS) and potentially on-premises. One crucial aspect of such integrations is keeping them healthy and available, which requires monitoring and diagnostics.
Read Post
turbo360

Top 6 Distributed Tracing Tools in 2025

Jan 1, 2025 By Srihari Senthil In Turbo360
Distributed tracing is the functionality to trace requests or messages flowing through different systems or environments like frontend, Backend, middleware. Distributed tracing brings connectivity or visibility of various services using a unique identifier. This identifier is passed to different services to correlate them as a single flow. We track data from different services with distributed tracing, but how do we visualize them? Visualization is a tedious task.
Read Post
uptrace

Top 10 DigitalOcean Alternatives to Consider in 2025

Jan 1, 2025 By Uptrace In Uptrace
The 2025 cloud computing landscape presents a diverse array of options beyond DigitalOcean's familiar waters. As businesses outgrow basic cloud solutions, they're discovering platforms that better match their evolving needs. From startups seeking cost-effective scaling to enterprises demanding robust security features, today's cloud providers offer specialized solutions for every use case.
Read Post

Copyright © 2024 OpsMatters™. All rights reserved.