Using the cloud is like ordering a meal from a restaurant. You can choose the type of food you want. You decide the amount you want to order. And, you choose the frequency you want to have it delivered to you. It's an efficient and customizable way to meet your needs — or is it? Each organization has different needs and considerations, and it takes careful thought to find the model that will best serve those needs.

Kubernetes (K8s) is the most popular container orchestration platform today. But, it can also be quite complex. To overcome this management challenge, you can deploy your Kubernetes containers using the Google Kubernetes Engine, which is a fully managed service. Yet, to get the most from GKE, you still need to follow best practices. And the following best practices for monitoring GKE clusters will help you get started.

Picture the last time you were sitting at your desk trying to make sense out of the multiple cloud provider bills you just received. The amounts all change from month to month, and you can’t really compare them against each other because they all use different formats. To say this is a confusing and frustrating situation to be in is an understatement. Perhaps you’re there now, which is why you’ve searched for advice on multi-cloud cost management.

It came as a pleasant surprise. CloudZero recently discovered over $1.7 million in annualized savings. And, all from our own infrastructure. Otherwise, we would have spent $1.7 million for cloud resources we didn't actually need. Cloud savings stories like this are common with CloudZero customers, and we often find companies spending more than they should in the cloud. If your team is also struggling with managing and controlling cloud spend, then this guide is for you!

But many businesses don’t have insight into where that money goes and whether or not they’re pricing their products accordingly. CloudZero Founder and CTO Erik Peterson sat down with Erik Carlin, Founder and CPO at ProsperOps, to talk about the transition in cloud cost optimization from 1.0 to 2.0. They explored what data engineering teams need to make informed buying decisions, how to turn data into actionable intelligence, and why you should view cloud costs as an opportunity for ROI.

CloudZero’s research has determined that as many as 60% of SaaS business leaders feel their cloud spend is higher than it should be. Considering cloud spend is a dominant portion of a SaaS company’s operating costs, unexpectedly high cloud bills can be a significant problem. While many SaaS leaders use discount plans to stem the bleeding, we believe the better solution lies with giving your engineers the tools to track and optimize costs as they build.

Many SaaS businesses emphasize customer acquisition and retention over growing gross margins, especially during the startup and scale-up stages. It makes sense. A company can grow its revenue faster if it acquires and retains more buying customers as opposed to simply selling more to existing customers. Yet, here’s the thing. Revenue growth measures the increase in the amount of money a business takes in from sales.

CloudZero just closed at $32M Series B fundraising round in the weakest funding environment since the dawn of the pandemic. The round was led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures, with continued support from existing investors Matrix Partners, Underscore VC, and G20 Ventures. CloudZero is a SaaS product, a data-dense platform delivered via the cloud, mostly to other SaaS companies and digital native businesses (DNBs).

This isn’t the “good old days” anymore. It used to be that cloud companies could pursue growth at all costs and still garner the support of venture capitalists and other investors. In 2023, however, with costs rising and margins getting narrower every day, investors are now favoring companies that can ensure long-term profitability rather than just growth. Now, more than ever before, it’s crucial to drive toward SaaS profitability as the ultimate goal.

If you’re going through a merger or an acquisition, you’ll soon have to assemble all the cloud account data from two or more organizations and blend it together to fit your new, larger organization. You may be bringing the companies together to form a new entity or simply absorbing one company into the other; the details don’t matter, because the solution is the same either way.