As announced in June, the VMware Tanzu CloudHealth team has been hard at work reimaging and engineering a brand new CloudHealth user experience. We unveiled this live for the first time at FinOps X in San Diego, and were so encouraged to see the excitement and positive feedback from this first look.

Reliability testing and observability are similar in one important way: engineering teams know they should be doing it, but they’re not sure how to start, or they don’t have the right resources, or they need to focus on competing priorities like feature development and incident response. In an ideal world, reliability and observability would be automated processes that configure, monitor, and run themselves.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is renowned for providing a comprehensive ecosystem that supports the computational and data storage needs essential for developing, deploying, and managing applications across different regions, ensuring that users experience fast and seamless service.

March 5th was a big day for incident.io as we released our on-call product to the world. Nine months of listening to our customers, coding, fixing, testing, and polishing came together for our biggest product launch to date. Releasing On-call was a huge milestone and represented the next step in our journey as a company.

June was a hot month — both in terms of the temperature in North America and because of the FinOps news that has been rolling down the pipeline! (Around here, there’s always excitement in the air when a major FinOps event goes off without a hitch.)

In today's competitive and uncertain tech landscape, engineering organizations are constantly seeking ways to optimize costs without compromising on performance. Efficient resource management and cost reduction have become crucial for businesses aiming to stay alive and ahead. At Cycle, our goal is to offer a robust solution that enhances efficiency while delivering significant cost savings to our users.

In the last few years, many businesses have migrated much of their operations to the cloud, and with increased usage, the complexity of managing cloud costs and achieving operational efficiency has grown as well. In many cases, cloud usage is outpacing the capabilities or availability of DevOps and FinOps teams to effectively manage a larger, more complex cloud infrastructure, so cloud optimization solutions are becoming the lifeline to maintaining reliable and cost-efficient operations.

Optimization is key to achieving cost efficiency and stability for cloud environments. One optimization factor to consider is deciding which availability zones (AZ) to operate in. Location can impact cloud operations availability, performance, and cost. However, it can be a daunting task to look for the most suitable and cost-efficient AZs. There are two key challenges.