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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.