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Google VPS Pricing Explained: A 2024 Guide

Organizations are turning to Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for scalable and cost-effective hosting solutions. Google offers a robust VPS option tailored to various organizational needs. Understanding Google VPS pricing can help you make informed decisions and optimize your cloud costs. This guide will explain Google VPS pricing, explore its uses, and provide tips for optimizing these costs with CloudZero.

AWS GP2 Vs. GP3 Volumes: A Side-By-Side Comparison

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is an efficient and durable block storage service. It is especially great for rapidly changing data on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Besides, Amazon EBS GP volumes promise a balance between performance and cost savings. In this guide, we see if that is the case. We’ll also tell if switching from your current EBS volume type is worth the while.

Ep. 21 Redefining Observability with Charity Majors

In this episode Charity Majors, the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, discusses observability in the cloud computing industry. She talks about her experience speaking at Google Cloud Next and the importance of observability in developing software applications. Charity explains how Honeycomb uses AI to assist with constructing queries and how observability is about understanding and developing complex systems. She also emphasizes the need for a single source of truth in observability tools and the shift from metrics to logs.

Comprehensive Cloud Security Solutions in the Bay Area

As businesses increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, ensuring the security of cloud-based assets has become a top priority. In the tech-savvy Bay Area, where innovation meets enterprise, the demand for robust cloud security solutions is paramount. This article explores what cloud security solutions entail, their importance, and how businesses in the Bay Area can benefit from these services.

Measuring Progress: Trends in Cloud Native App Platforms Highlight Need for Repeatability

As we navigate the complex terrain of cloud-native applications, the landscape is evolving at an astonishing pace. Seven months since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, the Tanzu division has been observing these changes, aiming to gain an understanding of landscape and opportunities for cloud-native businesses. What we found is that the cloud native landscape and the use cases it supports are nuanced.

State of Cloud Costs

Organizations face significant challenges in increasing the efficiency of their growing cloud spending, even as the flexibility and variety of available cloud services offer many opportunities for optimization. Cloud environments are complex and dynamic due to the breadth of services and the drive to adopt new technologies, such as Arm-based processors and GPUs that enable AI capabilities.

How to figure out where: decoding the 'colocation versus on-premise' library

For anyone researching ‘on-premise vs. colocation,’ the results soon become repetitive. Google, AI, and YouTube all return similar material on the pros and cons of each option. Some even include public cloud as a consideration. Yet they all reach exactly the same conclusion: that as a business, you need to figure out what is right for you. Whilst the advice is sound, it is also limited. How exactly can a business assess which infrastructure option is right for them?