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Azure FinOps Tool to Analyze and Optimize Azure Costs

Turbo360 is an Azure FinOps tool designed to provide a clear view of cost trends through in-depth analysis across multiple subscriptions in a comprehensive dashboard. This powerful platform empowers finance and engineering teams with transparency into cloud spending, enabling effective cost optimization with business context.

AWS Auto Scaling 101: Tips For Success

Whether you’re growing rapidly and need to expand your infrastructure or demand has slowed and you need to scale down, AWS Auto Scaling can help. While manual scaling is time-intensive and costly, auto scaling is an automated process that adjusts capacity for predictable performance and costs. Auto scaling can help you optimize how your application is used and reduce wastage and optimize cloud spend.

Product Release Notes July 2024

For years, CloudZero has been a leader in the cloud cost allocation space, a statement supported by the fact that we remain the only cloud cost management platform to have received SOC1 Type 2 certification for our extreme accuracy when it comes to allocation and financial reporting capabilities. To quote our co-founder in the 2022 blog post listed above, “Quite simply, we organize cloud spend better than anyone else in the world.” Even so, we’re always looking to iterate and improve.

How to control your overage bills

We all know how tricky it can be to keep track of costs, especially when your projects spike or with the latest feature that your users love. That's why we've been working on a solution to ensure you never have surprise billing due to on-demand occurrences. Introducing our latest feature to give you both flexibility and control: Overage Budgets.

Introduction to AWS Enterprise Support Plans

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revolutionized the cloud computing industry by offering a wide range of services designed to provide flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency to businesses of all sizes. Selecting and using the appropriate support plan is essential to making the most of AWS's advantages. For all types of needs, from small businesses to multinational corporations, AWS provides a variety of support plans. This blog will examine the various AWS enterprise support plans and share how working with a partner-led enterprise support can increase the advantages even more while saving money.

5 Reasons Why You Should Work with a FinOps Consulting Partner

In today's world, digital transformation, cloud computing, DevOps, and serverless computing aren't just #trending terms-they're essential for keeping your organization running smoothly. As technology evolves, businesses need to keep pushing for innovation while making sure their cloud infrastructure is flexible, scalable, and reliable. Gartner's got some eye-opening predictions.

Cloud Agnostic Vs. Cloud Native: Key Differences And Use Cases

The cloud computing space is constantly evolving — a fact that can sometimes set the stage for inconsistencies and confusion around both industry terminology and best practices. Cloud agnostic is one of those confusing terms, as is cloud native. But with the number of cloud agnostic and cloud native applications growing, it’s important to set the record straight.

AWS Savings Plan vs Reserved Instances: Your Complete Guide

AWS has Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, two very different opportunities for users to save big on your cloud spend budget. But which of these two plans is best for you, and how can you start saving on your cloud management? In this guide, we’ll cover both options so you can make the best choice when using AWS.

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.