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AWS Instance Types Compared: Choosing The Right Option

Sep 13, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
You might wonder how companies using Amazon Web Services waste more than $10 billion annually. It’s easy to ask, “why don’t they just reduce their spending?” Well, it’s because there’s more to it than that. AWS offers many options — over 200 different services, for example. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides over 300 AWS instance types spread over five unique instance families.
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Top 25+ AWS Cost Optimization Tools And Best Practices

Sep 10, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
While AWS offers significant benefits compared to traditional on-premise infrastructure, its inherent elasticity and scalability tend to create uncontrolled costs. AWS costs can be opaque and difficult to analyze, and without a system for identifying the source of costs and managing them, they can quickly undermine profit margins. However, several tools have emerged to help organizations manage and optimize their costs over the past few years.
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Azure Cost Assessment

Sep 10, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
FinOps-certified practitioner Michael Stephenson introduces the cost assessment survey. He walks through the survey, explaining its importance and the types of questions it includes. The survey covers topics such as the frequency of cloud cost reviews, who is responsible for cost monitoring, methods for tracking spending, and much more! He also emphasizes the need for proactive cost management and highlights common practices like shutting down unused resources and right-sizing. The goal is to help organizations manage and optimize their cloud costs more effectively.
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5 Automated GCP Optimizations That Make Cloud Cost Savings Simple

Sep 9, 2024 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
As both the State Of FinOps 2024 and the State Of Cloud Costs In 2024 indicate, reducing cloud waste remains a top priority for cloud-driven organizations. Cloud spenders care more than ever about cost efficiency — and CloudZero is working tirelessly to make cloud savings simpler. To this end, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added a suite of automated GCP optimizations to our Insights feature.
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Key learnings from the State of Cloud Costs study

Sep 9, 2024 By Kayla Taylor In Datadog
We recently released our initial State of Cloud Costs report, which identified factors shaping the costs of hundreds of organizations that use Datadog Cloud Cost Management to monitor their AWS spend. The report reveals several widely applicable themes, including the ways in which resource utilization, adoption of emerging technologies, and participation in commitment-based discount programs all shape cloud environments and costs.
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15 Application Monitoring Tools To Consider In 2024

Sep 9, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Also known as application performance monitoring (APM), application monitoring tools track and analyze application performance. They monitor application metrics such as CPU usage, response times, error rates, and uptime. The tools also offer real-time insights to identify issues, improve user experiences, and optimize resources. But are APM tools really necessary?
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15+ GCP Cost Optimization Tools In 2024

Sep 4, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Cost management in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can be complex. It’s a lot like costs in Azure or AWS. Often, companies don’t know where to begin when they receive 20-page invoices. GCP billing tools can be unfamiliar, especially to users from a different cloud provider. However, the platform continues to simplify its cost monitoring and billing tools.
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Product Release Notes August 2024

Sep 4, 2024 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero
Creating a positive user experience is always one of the most important goals our teams focus on. Whether it’s administrators working behind the scenes on the platform, or users looking to uncover cost savings opportunities in Explorer, or engineers working with our APIs, we always strive to provide a frictionless experience making sure each person has the right information to achieve their goals in our platform.
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The 4 Types Of Cloud Computing: Choosing The Best Model

Sep 3, 2024 By CloudZero Team In CloudZero
There are four main cloud delivery models (cloud computing services) and four major cloud deployment models (types of cloud computing). Each model is unique, and that affects how it impacts cloud management, data security, and cost management, among other considerations. Here’s exactly what each cloud computing model provides and how to choose the best option for your needs.
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