When operating a larger business or project, one problem comes quickly apparent: How can I know that my servers and their applications are up and the performance is good across the board? The answer is, of course, monitoring software.

A big part of cloud management is managing and optimizing cloud costs. CloudHealth and CloudCheckr aim to help you manage the cost, performance, security, and compliance requirements of your cloud-based services. Both offer hybrid and multi-cloud deployment capabilities. But we doubt you'll want to use them both simultaneously. So, which one do you choose? CloudCheckr or CloudHealth? In this comparison, we reveal what makes each cloud management tool unique, so you can pick the right one for your needs.

When it comes to cloud storage, two of the most popular options are Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3. Both are highly scalable, secure, and widely used by businesses of all sizes. However, there are significant differences between the two that make them better suited for different use cases. In this article, we will take a detailed look at the features, capabilities, and pricing of Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 to help you decide which one is the best fit for your organization.

We often speak to organizations about Azure and one of the common questions is what is the difference between App Insights and Log Analytics. In this article we will aim to discuss those differences and overlaps. If we think about the Azure Monitoring Platform / ecosystem, then Log Analytics and App Insights both play a role within that platform as shown below. Log Analytics plays a role in the storage of Log Data and the analysis of Log Data.

Too often, when organizations migrate workloads to the cloud or build new cloud-native applications, they don’t really think about storage. The cloud provider takes care of all that, right? Well, yes and no. There are cost implications to cloud storage that many don’t adequately anticipate—until they get the bill, that is.

Do you know what keeps Cloud Administrators up at night? Yes, you guessed it right. Cloud bills!!! These unpredictable cloud bills. With the recent allure of the “pay-per-use” model of the public cloud, organizations over-use and over-spend on cloud resources. Especially with this unrestrained freedom to create new instances on the go, mitigating cloud costs is a daunting task, even for the early and heavy adopters of public clouds.

Organizations all over the world have been moving workloads to the cloud. Microsoft Azure provides a host of benefits and services which make it a top choice for on-premises to cloud migrations. When it comes to migrating workloads, Azure virtual machines are a great choice with VM options up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory and storage IOPS up to 3.7 million.

Azure Blob storage has several storage tiers that offer different performance and cost characteristics. The storage tiers available are: Customers can move data between these tiers based on their access patterns, which can help reduce costs while still meeting performance requirements.