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When each quarter’s financial report lands on the desks of a company’s C-Suite executives, those execs are essentially looking at a black box of spending and revenue. They can see the total numbers and the growth or shrinkage of certain categories, but they ultimately have very little context into why each number is as high or low as it is. Without this context, it’s all too easy to feel sticker shock over a seemingly outrageous cloud bill and demand that costs be cut at once.

The recent market turmoil has everyone from developers to CTOs and founders asking themselves a fundamental question “Is our cloud-deployment strategy recession proofs, and if not, how can we adapt to the new market realities?” Within enterprises of all sizes, leaders are asking hard questions, looking for ways to cut costs without negatively impacting growth.

A multi-cloud strategy has become the status quo for many organisations. It provides access to the broadest range of cloud services and best-of-breed technologies, along with a reduced risk of vendor lock-in. As a result, most organisations will use a number of the most popular service options alongside more niche or localised offerings.

Multi cloud has long been a contentious topic when you talk about cloud infrastructure. Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Pulumi have made deploying to any cloud much easier - you can now use a single interface to deploy infrastructure to virtually any cloud environment. However, the effort of creating infrastructure for each cloud provider still requires significant expertise and time to get right, leading many to see it as a effort not worth taking.

Enterprises spent US$178 billion on cloud infrastructure services in 2021, 37% more than in 2020. And “global spending on cloud services is expected to reach over US$482 billion in 2022.” Clearly the use of cloud services is on the rise. But what are cloud services exactly, and why are they beneficial? Cloud services are infrastructure, platforms, or software that are hosted by third-party providers and made available to users through the internet.

Lumigo uses IntelliJ IDEs everywhere. The back-end developers love their PyCharm and us frontend developers use WebStorm all the time. No doubt that it’s one of the most popular IDE’s out there. One of the perks at Lumigo is that as employees, we can use 10% of our working time to invest in personal projects or do cool things for self-development and innovation.

What is Box.com? Not to be confused with Dropbox, Box is a popular cloud content management platform. But what does that mean exactly? Box's service is a platform for users to collaborate, edit, and work on various files. It is a centralized digital workspace allowing workers to operate in an environment where everything is compatible. Box enables users to securely share files and collaborate on digital projects across platforms with pretty much everyone.

Amazon Kinesis is the real-time stream processing service of AWS. Whether you got video, audio, or IoT streaming data to handle, Kinesis is the way to go. Kinesis is a serverless managed service that integrates nicely with other services like Lambda or S3. Often, you will use it when SQS or SNS is too low-level. But as with all the other services on AWS, Kinesis is a professional tool that comes with its share of complications.