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How to do Azure Cost Analysis at Service and Meter level?

This video demonstrates how to use the Cost Analyzer to review expenses by service name and meter. This feature offers detailed cost breakdowns by subscriptions, resource groups, types, service names, and more. This granularity provides organizations with complete visibility into their Azure spending, ensuring transparency and compliance. For effective cloud cost management and governance strategies organizations rely on these insights for optimal resource utilization and budget control.

12 FinOps tools for AWS users

Like DevOps, FinOps is a portmanteau word (a word made by combining two others) and a portmanteau concept. Where DevOps is the joining of development and operations, FinOps is the joining of operations and finance. Like DevOps, FinOps has arisen from a frustration with siloed business capacities, and again like DevOps, FinOps is a part cultural, part tool-driven practice.

Comparing Generative AI Offerings From Major Cloud Providers

In the last two years, generative AI offerings have exploded in the cloud space (and everywhere else). Major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are perfectly positioned to lead these efforts thanks to the fact that they offer the very resources they require to build these models, and their customers are naturally early adopters and heavy users of AI.

AWS Budget Alerts 101: Here's Everything You Need To Know

Picture a fast-growing company that depends heavily on AWS for its infrastructure but doesn’t use AWS Budget Alerts. One month, they received an AWS bill 50% higher than expected. Without any warnings, they could not address the cost anomalies in real time. This led to budget overruns and strained financial planning. The engineering team couldn’t explain to the finance operations how that happened. This situation highlights the need for AWS Budget Alerts.

Navigating the challenges of modern cloud computing

To read the full findings from this research, visit The Cost of Cloud 2024 white paper by clicking here. As cloud computing continues to evolve, it brings many new challenges. Our latest white paper, "The Cost of Cloud 2024”, explores these emerging issues through the insights of over 500 industry professionals.

How to Ship AWS Cloudwatch Logs to Any Destination with OpenTelemetry

Observability and log management are needed for a strong IT strategy. Two essential tools for these purposes are AWS CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry. AWS Cloudwatch provides real-time data and insights into AWS-powered applications' health, performance, and efficiency. On the other hand, OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that assists developers in creating, gathering, and exporting telemetry data (such as traces, metrics, and logs) for analysis.

Is Azure Down?

As the reliance on cloud services like Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Azure Active Directory (AD) continues to soar, the need for robust monitoring tools has become critical. Ensuring optimal performance and availability of Azure services is vital for organizations shifting towards Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for full-time or disaster recovery use.

Differences Between Microsoft 365 and Office 365

In today’s digital landscape, productivity tools are crucial for businesses and individuals alike. Two names that often come up in conversations about office suites are Microsoft 365 and Office 365. But what exactly are these tools, and how do they differ? Understanding the distinctions between Microsoft 365 and Office 365 can help you choose the best solution for your needs.

Creating query-optimized content for Google AI overviews - Tips

After the blockbuster announcement of Chat-GPT in fall of 2022, the SEO and copywriting worlds were thrown into chaos. With AI able to generate blocks of mostly solid content (mostly) in seconds, what would this mean for the future of SEO – where for years copywriters have commanded triple digit hourly wages to generate content meant to game Google search results?