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Spot Instances Explained: How They Can Lower Cloud Costs

According to Amazon, EC2 Spot Instances can save you up to 90% of your spending on On-Demand Instances. It’s been proven that Reserved EC2 instances are cheaper than On-Demand ones. But, Spot Instances can offer even bigger discounts. Despite these cost benefits, Spot Instances have many caveats that make them unsuitable for some operations and processes. Even Amazon emphasizes this. Although this EC2 can save you a lot of money, some situations are best for On-Demand or Reserved Instances.

Maximizing Cost Efficiency in AWS Cloud Environments: Leveraging Synthetic Monitoring Tools for Real-Time Insights

Find out how synthetic monitoring improves cost efficiency in AWS Cloud environments. Discover the advantages, tools, and best practices for maximizing AWS resources and raising performance.

AWS Egress Costs Explained: How To Reduce Spend

The majority of cloud providers let you upload data for free. But moving that same data across their services, to another cloud provider, or back to your own data center comes at a cost commonly known as AWS egress costs. The cost may be cents per gigabyte (GB). But once you exceed the free tier’s 100 GB, it starts to add up. In this guide, we explain how AWS egress pricing works. With this understanding, along with the cost-saving tips we’ll share, you can reduce your egress costs like a pro.

Research: How cloud practitioners optimize infrastructure in a multi-cloud world

What do today’s cloud practitioners need to navigate the ever-evolving cloud ecosystem? The growing complexity of the cloud requires innovation through automation, optimization, containerization, and a variety of other technologies. Yet with so many different methodologies, strategies, and best practices available to them today, cloud operations professionals need to know which options will bring them the greatest success as their cloud journeys evolve.

15 Datadog Alternatives Worth Your Consideration

As an engineer or CTO, you already know that monitoring your tech stack is essential for maintaining optimal performance, security, and health. The thing is, building and hosting an observability platform for your full stack’s logs, metrics, and more is quite time-consuming and can be costly. One of the top contenders if you are seeking a SaaS-based monitoring and observability tool is Datadog. Perhaps you already use Datadog but would like to switch to another observability platform.

Top Places to Find Tailored IT Solutions for Your Unique Business Needs

Businesses rely heavily on technology to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and stay ahead of the competition. Yet, due to the ever-evolving landscape of information technology (IT), it can be overwhelming for business owners to navigate through the sea of solutions available in the market.

Comparing Manual vs. Automated Archiving Processes in SharePoint Online

In today’s digital age, efficient document management is crucial for organisations to maintain productivity, ensure compliance, and manage storage costs. SharePoint Online, a popular platform for document management, offers robust archiving capabilities to help organisations handle their growing data. However, the approach to archiving can significantly impact efficiency and costs.

Cloud Computing Solutions for Scalable Growth and Global Expansion

Are you looking to scale your business and expand globally? Welcome to the club! In today's fast-paced world, cloud computing has emerged as a game-changer for businesses aiming to achieve scalable growth and global expansion. But what exactly is cloud computing? Cloud computing, at its core, is the delivery of computing services-servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence-over the internet, or "the cloud." This enables faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.

What is the Well-Architected Cloud Test Suite?

When it comes to reliability, cloud providers use a Shared Responsibility Model. In essence, they’ll keep the infrastructure reliable, while you’re responsible for architecting reliability into your systems. To help make this easier, they’ve published a variety of best practice guides, such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework. These lengthy documents are filled with recommendations to help you architect a more secure, more reliable system.