Curious about Microsoft Azure and the best ways to connect? Azure is a hybrid Cloud Service Provider (CSP) with customized, scalable, cloud-based packages. These encompass Software as a Service (SaaS), based on subscription-based software licensing and delivery, Platform as a Service (PaaS), allowing companies to develop, deploy, manage, and update applications, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), providing high-level application programming interfaces (APIs).

One of the critical differences between distributed tracing and business activity monitoring is that distributed tracing usually assumes that your transaction executes from start to end in a reasonably short time. An example would be that your call to an API might then drop a message on a queue which a function processes and loads into a database.

One of the key advantages of cloud services versus on premise deployments is the wide range of purchasing options and pricing models. While it’s an attractive advantage, it can be complicated for organizations to determine the best blend of service pricing models. The ability to define the organization’s blend of purchasing strategies and display the target versus actual performance is critical for optimizing cloud cost management efforts.

Last week (7th September 2022) I spotted a post from EUC and Cloud Veteran Marius Sandu alerting his professional and social media networks to an outage of Azure Front Door that in turn meant a significant number of Azure services and resources were unavailable.

As a developer, Python for me is a heavy-lifting and versatile language. I’ve used it for building APIs, internet of things projects, file and data conversions, machine learning and (of course) web development. Like with any modern, commonly used language, the functionality behind the application is only as good as the infrastructure that it is deployed onto.

Eco’s ability to leverage Amazon’s Reserved Instance Marketplace when managing and optimizing customers’ EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) commitments is well known. Through advanced algorithms and many years of experience, we’re able to deliver the flexibility of on-demand with the savings of reserved instances.

Technologies like virtualization and containerization have gained significant traction over the last decade as foundational tools for modern application development. As companies like Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), and Google (Google Cloud) started to invest in the hardware and software infrastructure required to support access to these virtualized resources, “the cloud” was born.

The age of growth-at-all-costs is over. Profitability matters — and it matters now. For SaaS companies who rely heavily on the public cloud, understanding what’s driving (or hurting) profitability can be tricky. Different customers have different needs and usage patterns, drive different levels of cost, and impact profitability unequally. Cybersecurity has played a central role in CloudZero from the beginning —or really, before it.