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Top Cloud Cost News From November 2024

Happy holidays! It’s that time of year when people brainstorm their New Year’s resolutions, and companies are laying out plans to hit the new year with a fresh cost management strategy in place. If you’re in the latter boat, check out these end-of-year wrap-ups that will help you start 2025 on the right foot, financially speaking. Enjoy!

You Need To Know These 15 AIOps Tools To Save Your Developers' Time

Managing modern, complex IT systems manually is like navigating a vast, ever-changing city without a map, GPS, or road signs. Imagine driving blindfolded, relying solely on occasional radio updates (logs) about traffic jams (issues) and detours (system changes). Not only does this method slow you down, but by the time you react to a traffic jam, it’s already caused gridlock across the city. Worse, competitors zipping through the city with autonomous cars (AIOps) are faster and more efficient.

Chargeback: A vital practice that often goes untapped in cloud cost management

Enhances cloud cost management with CloudSpend Chargeback Businesses are empowered to scale at unprecedented levels. However, with this growth comes the challenge of controlling cloud costs. Among the various financial considerations, one practice often slips through the cracks: chargeback. While this might sound like just another accounting term, having a chargeback model is a cornerstone of efficient cloud cost management—yet it often remains untracked or underutilized.

Product Release Notes November 2024

Happy AWS re:Invent week, everyone! While we have some larger announcements coming out this week (keep an eye out), we’d be remiss if we didn’t take the time to also look back at what our teams have been working on over the past few weeks. While we didn’t have a stated theme for November, you will see that two of our updates revolve around building templates or examples to help make achieving your goals easier with CloudZero.

AWS Lambda Demystified: How It Works, Pros And Cons, And Pricing

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 services. But, AWS Lambda continues to stand out for several reasons. This AWS Lambda tutorial will help explain Lambda in simple terms so you can decide if the service suits your computing needs. We’ll cover AWS Lambda, how it works, how it compares to EC2, use cases, benefits, limitations, and more. Additionally, we’ll cover how you can monitor and manage your Lambda costs without the burden of cost management.

State of Cloud Costs

Cloud spending continues to grow, but managing costs effectively remains a challenge for many organizations. In this video, Datadog Senior Product Manager Kayla Taylor dives into our recent State of Cloud Costs report—which analyzed AWS cloud cost data from hundreds of organizations—to understand the key factors driving cloud expenses. We explore the impact of adopting emerging compute technologies like Arm-based processors, GPUs, and AI capabilities, how usage patterns and previous-generation technologies affect cloud costs, and the role of AWS discount programs in cost management.

Monitor your OpenAI LLM spend with cost insights from Datadog

Managing LLM provider costs has become a chief concern for organizations building and deploying custom applications that consume services like OpenAI. These applications often rely on multiple backend LLM calls to handle a single initial prompt, leading to rapid token consumption—and consequently, rising costs. But shortening prompts or chunking documents to reduce token consumption can be difficult and introduce performance trade-offs, including an increased risk of hallucinations.

ECS Vs. Kubernetes: A Detailed Guide To Container Solutions

Containers improve application development with portability, efficiency, and scalability while accelerating deployments. Amazon ECS and Kubernetes are two of the top choices for container orchestration, but how do they stack up against each other? In this guide, we’ll break down the key differences, helping you choose the right solution for your containerization needs.

A Simple Guide To AWS Lambda Pricing And Cost Management

AWS Lambda is an event-driven compute service, which means it executes tasks automatically when triggered by a compute event. This automation also means that your Lambda costs can quickly exceed your budget. That is especially true when you’re not familiar with AWS Lambda pricing. In this guide, we’ll discuss the AWS Lambda pricing model, including how billing works and how to optimize Lambda costs.