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If you live and breathe FinOps in your daily work life, prepare to get excited. This month, we’ve got plenty to look forward to: Read on for the details!

While there are many advantages to using Amazon Web Services (AWS), cost management can be complicated because so many factors impact your AWS bill. Account setup, savings plans, and a number of other factors can all affect your AWS charges and usage. In this article, we’ll introduce 15 AWS cost management best practices that promote optimization and how you can go beyond AWS cost management by using an advanced cloud cost intelligence tool.

In the past decade, cloud technology has revolutionized the way businesses operate. Offering invaluable benefits such as speed, flexibility, and security, cloud computing has become a necessity for countless companies around the world. Recent research says that more than 94% of organizations have a large portion of their workloads in the cloud. But with so many countries utilizing these systems, which countries around the globe currently have the best cloud technology of all?

Nothing makes us prouder at CloudZero than hearing success stories from our long-term clients. Happily, we have another insightful story to share with you today about a company using the CloudZero platform to achieve their cloud finance goals. In the video below, Erik Peterson, founder and CTO of CloudZero, speaks with Mike Surma, director of cloud cost optimization for Forcepoint, to find out exactly which tools and features helped his company the most in its FinOps journey.

When it comes to managing costs in the Azure cloud, it is essential to have a reliable system that can help you keep track of your spending and alert you when you are getting close to exceeding your budget. This is where Turbo360’s Budgets monitoring feature comes in. The Budgets monitoring feature in Turbo360 is designed specifically for Azure cost monitoring.

Startup veterans will recognize the opportunity presented by an early-stage company: You not only get to run your organization, you get to define how it runs. All the pieces may not be in place by the time you arrive, and the heart of the job becomes building the organization — the plane — while you run it.

Whether you’re a data-driven, data-informed, or data-backed organization, your data remains your most crucial business intelligence resource. All the data you collect for later analysis needs to be stored in a secure location as well. Cloud-based data warehouses offer superior performance, flexibility, and cost benefits.

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) role has expanded significantly due to technological advancements. Today, CFOs have more responsibilities than ever, managing everything from payroll to IT and software expenses. This requires new processes and the right tools to get the necessary cost data for making smart decisions and ensuring the company’s profitability. With so many financial software options available, choosing the right one for each financial task can be challenging.

Cloud FinOps, Augmented FinOps, or simply FinOps, is rapidly growing in popularity as enterprises sharpen their focus on managing financial operations more effectively. FinOps empowers organizations to track, measure, and optimize their cloud spend with greater visibility and control.