Nothing makes us prouder at CloudZero than hearing success stories from our long-term clients. Happily, we have another insightful story to share with you today about a company using the CloudZero platform to achieve their cloud finance goals. In the video below, Erik Peterson, founder and CTO of CloudZero, speaks with Mike Surma, director of cloud cost optimization for Forcepoint, to find out exactly which tools and features helped his company the most in its FinOps journey.

Promo.com, initially launched as Slidely in 2012, has become a key player in the digital marketing sphere by providing tools that empower small businesses and agencies to create impactful visual content. Transitioning to Promo.com in 2016, the company set out to disrupt traditional video marketing with a user-friendly, browser-based video editor designed for quick and effective video creation.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, managing extensive document volumes in SharePoint Online is a challenging task for any organization. As businesses expand, there is an increasing demand for efficient, cost-effective storage solutions that provide space savings, ensure compliance, and offer easy access. Squirrel is a cutting-edge SaaS solution designed to automate the archiving process by moving documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage.

In late 2023, AWS began informing customers that as of January 15, 2024, they would start enforcing their existing policy of not allowing discounted RIs to be sold on the RI Marketplace, according to AWS Service Terms 5.6.1.: “You may not resell an EC2 Reserved Instance that you purchased through a discount program.” This policy has been in place since at least 2014; however, AWS rarely enforced it.

Startup veterans will recognize the opportunity presented by an early-stage company: You not only get to run your organization, you get to define how it runs. All the pieces may not be in place by the time you arrive, and the heart of the job becomes building the organization — the plane — while you run it.

If you run your business on the cloud, you want to maximize what you’re getting for your money and ensure your cloud applications perform up to expectations. To do this, you will need a solid cloud monitoring strategy. This post covers different types of cloud monitoring, their benefits, and some best practices to set you on the right track.

Azure App Registration plays a crucial role in securing and managing the applications in your Azure environment enabling secure interaction with various Azure services. Given the importance of Azure App registration in authentication and security, this blog will provide a way to document its details and manage it effortlessly.

When it comes to managing costs in the Azure cloud, it is essential to have a reliable system that can help you keep track of your spending and alert you when you are getting close to exceeding your budget. This is where Turbo360’s Budgets monitoring feature comes in. The Budgets monitoring feature in Turbo360 is designed specifically for Azure cost monitoring.

We present five common myths about platform engineering — what it is and what it isn’t — that we've heard when folks aren't considering the whole picture.