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CloudFront cost: how to understand and reduce them - and save the planet while you're at it

Oct 5, 2023 By Andromeda Booth In Turn It Off

Amazon CloudFront is a Content Network Delivery service (CDN). CDNs are primarily used to reduce latency. They do this by serving certain types of content (images, videos and static files) from servers that are geographically closest to any particular user. I.e. users in France will receive content from the server in Paris; users in Malaysia will receive content from the server in Kuala Lumpur.

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Dirty Cloud - navigating the hidden costs of cloud computing

Oct 5, 2023 By Andromeda Booth In Turn It Off

In today’s hyper-connected digital landscape, businesses rely heavily on cloud computing to streamline operations, enhance scalability, and drive innovation. However, the seemingly limitless potential of the cloud comes at a steep price – one that goes far beyond financial considerations. Welcome to the world of data centres, the not-so-hidden environmental offenders of the corporate world.

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The problem with public cloud spend

Oct 5, 2023 By Sam Booth In Turn It Off

Having spent the best part of the last 15 years working in cloud cloud consulting I like to think I know a little bit about public cloud and its challenges. One thing that comes up time and time again in conversation with those that we have helped move to cloud is the lack of control over usage, generally a response to continuously rising bills with no clear indication as to why.

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CloudZero Launches Automated Savings Insights, Helping Engineers Prioritize Cost Efficiency

Oct 4, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero

Getting to cloud efficiency is both an art and a science. The art has long been CloudZero’s specialty: giving engineers complete visibility into the costs associated with their cloud infrastructure, putting it all in a business context, and helping them make proactive decisions about how to build and scale efficiently. In other words, the art is on the human side. Giving human engineers the visibility and context to understand and control cloud costs.

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Designing Your Cloud With Failure In Mind

Oct 2, 2023 By Amanda Chavez In CloudZero

Implementing any cloud development project can be tricky, and frustrating. Especially when you are pressured with time, reactive approaches, or cost-saving scenarios. However, there are some things you can do to implement solutions in your cloud architecture for long-term scalability and risk mitigation. Rather than short-term fixes until it arises again, consider designing your cloud with failure in mind, or speculating worst-case scenarios. It might sound counterintuitive or obvious.

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Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Next Gen: How Pepperdata Can Save 30% Off Your Cloud Bill

Sep 29, 2023 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata

Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Next Gen is the only cost optimization solution for both Apache Spark and microservices that can save you between 30–47% on your cloud bill. No matter if you try to manually tune your applications on your own, an estimated one-third of what is spent every day on cloud computing resources is wasted. While you might have cost-optimized your infrastructure with things like savings plans, spot and reserved instances, that doesn’t address the waste inherent in your applications.

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The importance of Azure cost to DevOps

Sep 28, 2023 By Achraf Ben Alaya In Turbo360

Cloud computing’s ascent has redefined modern business operations. Azure, among other platforms, offers unparalleled scalability, speed, and resilience. However, this vast potential brings about the challenge of cost management. Although DevOps teams traditionally focus more on deployment and uptime, addressing Azure costs is essential. Here’s why.

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Datadog Cloud Cost Management: Actionable Cost Data

Sep 27, 2023 By Datadog In Datadog

Datadog Cloud Cost Management brings fine-grained cost data that’s scoped to teams and services onto the same monitoring platform engineers already use, so costs can be understood alongside observability data and made actionable.

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Optimization Without Recommendations: Automating Your Cost Optimization on Amazon EKS

Sep 27, 2023 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata

Learn how Pepperdata uses machine learning to provide Continuous Intelligent Tuning automatically to your Amazon EKS applications, helping your platform team recover wasted capacity and ultimately reduce your spend for cloud resources.

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31 Crucial DevOps Automation Tools Your Team Needs In 2023

Sep 26, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero

As technology advances and business environments become increasingly competitive, your DevOps team has to continuously improve your product. The challenge is to free up their time so that they can release new product features and improve existing ones. Automating repetitive tasks is one way to accomplish this. Manual approaches also tend to generate or miss errors, slow time to market, and fail to test and monitor system health quickly enough.

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