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Rethink Cloud Finance: From Cost Control To Strategic Growth

Aug 26, 2025 By Emily Allen In CloudZero
Cloud costs keep rising, and most companies are struggling to contain it. That’s where today’s finance teams can step up their game, not only as a professional opportunity but as a leading protagonist on the cloud cost optimization stage. A bit of background first: Global public cloud spending is projected by Gartner to exceed $720 billion in 2025. That’s up from nearly $600 billion in 2024. And a lot of that is sheer, unmitigated waste.
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Put Cloud Costs in Front of Engineers with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Aug 26, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Tired of surprises on your cloud bills? With Datadog Cloud Cost Management integrated into the Software Catalog, engineers see cost, performance, and reliability side by side—no context switching required. Give every service owner the visibility they need to make cost-aware decisions.
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Track Cloud Unit Economics with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Aug 26, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Do you know the true cost per user, API call, or checkout? Datadog Cloud Cost Management lets you break down spend by combining cost, observability, and custom business metrics—all in one place. Track cost per transaction, alert on changes, and align engineering and finance with real-time unit economics.
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Failover and cloud aren't enough for reliability

Aug 26, 2025 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Amin Momin of @CapgeminiGlobal talks about reliability takes dedicated effort beyond just using the cloud and setting up failover. Full transcript: There are two misconceptions about reliability. One is people only think failover is reliability. Just doing the failover, that will be enough from the reliability point of view. That's the first one. And the second one: we are deployed into the cloud, so it is the service provider's responsibility to provide the reliability.
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5 Signs Your Network Operations Need an Upgrade

5 Signs Your Network Operations Need an Upgrade

Aug 26, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Network operations form the foundation of how businesses function in today's connected world. Every service, tool, and application depends on the network working smoothly. When network operations fall behind, the problems show up quickly. Employees face disruptions, customers lose patience, and the business as a whole struggles to keep up with modern demands. The challenge is that many teams keep patching small issues without realizing the system itself has outgrown its usefulness.
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AWS Reserved Instances 101: The Complete Guide

Aug 25, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
With 240 distinct services, ranging from compute to storage to networking and content delivery — each offered at different price points — choosing the right AWS service requires meticulous consideration.. By default, AWS services are available on-demand and you pay a monthly bill for services used. However, the on-demand pricing model can get expensive if you use a lot of services and deploy a fleet of instances.
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Instrument your Azure Container Apps workloads with the new Datadog Agent sidecar

Aug 22, 2025 By Jordan Obey In Datadog
Modern application development is evolving rapidly, with serverless containers and microservices becoming the standard for scalable, resilient architectures. Azure Container Apps is at the forefront of this movement, enabling developers to deploy containerized applications without having to manage infrastructure.
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A complete security view for every Ubuntu LTS VM on Azure

Aug 22, 2025 By Jehudi In Canonical
Azure’s Update Manager now shows missing Ubuntu Pro updates for all Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases: 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04. The feature was first introduced for only 18.04 during its move to Expanded Security Maintenance. With this addition, Azure highlights where Ubuntu LTS instances would benefit from Expanded Security Maintenance updates if the administrator attaches an Ubuntu Pro license, even for instances running more recent Ubuntu releases.
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The Complete SaaS Unit Economics Guide (2025 Edition)

Aug 22, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Measuring and monitoring unit economics can help your SaaS brand make informed business and engineering decisions. But how do you get that data, and what exactly are SaaS unit economics? We’ll cover exactly what SaaS unit economics are, metrics you should monitor, how to calculate your unit economics, and the tools you can use to be successful.
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