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Understanding Your Cloud Bill: A Beginner's Guide

Embarking on the journey of understanding your cloud bill can initially seem daunting, but grasping a few essential concepts and familiarizing yourself with common terminology can significantly demystify the process. At its core, cloud billing is the method by which cloud service providers charge for the resources and services that your business consumes.

How Technology Revolutionizes Postage Expense Management in Business

Are you having difficulty managing postage expenses? With technological advances, even post offices are taking a cue and modernizing to help businesses track their mail spending more efficiently. You no longer need to worry about sifting through piles of paperwork or sending out obsolete, unreliable invoices - new digital platforms provide a comprehensive solution for effective postage expense management. In this blog post, we'll uncover the benefits of utilizing today's state-of-the-art technologies to make sure your business remains profitable by minimizing postage costs.

5 AWS Tagging Challenges - And How CloudZero Solves Them

As an AWS user, you know how important it is that your organization understands what you’re spending and why. AWS is a tremendously powerful resource, and when you have complete visibility into the cost efficiency of your AWS environment, you can use it to remove many of the scaling obstacles that companies faced in the past.

CloudZero's New Logo: A Commitment To Finding Order Within The Chaos

In the last decade-plus, the cloud has undergone a torrid evolution. Born in 2006, the cloud didn’t face the same speed limits on evolution that we mortals do. Within years, the cloud had gone from competitive edge to competitive necessity; within a decade, specialized services like Kubernetes, Snowflake, and Datadog had emerged to help us use it more, more flexibly, and with a more data-driven strategy. As the cloud evolved at an exponential rate, so did the costs associated with using it.

A Simple Guide To AWS Lambda Rightsizing

AWS Lambda can be an easy-to-implement solution for those looking for serverless application deployments and operations. However, how can you be sure that you are getting the most for your money when it comes to utilizing this service? This guide will explain some of the tools and resources at your disposal — whether you’re utilizing the AWS console, trying to optimize your code and design, or a combination of the two.

Pepperdata Reduces the Cost of Amazon EMR on EKS by 42.5%

With Kubernetes emerging as the de facto operating system of the cloud, capable of running almost anything, it’s not a surprise that many enterprises are rapidly porting their Apache Spark workloads to Kubernetes. This includes migrating Amazon EMR workloads to Amazon EKS to gain the additional deployment and scaling benefits of a fully managed service like Amazon EKS.

What Is Lift And Shift? Is It Right For You?

There are several ways to migrate to the cloud today — None of which are an equal path to modernizing on-premises applications and workflows. Lift and shift migration promises cost savings, speed, and less effort compared to other cloud migration strategies. But are these claims true? In this guide, we’ll cover whether a lift and shift migration strategy actually saves you money and effort when migrating to the cloud.

The 16 best cloud cost optimisation tools for 2023/2024

In this piece, we run through the 16 best cloud cost optimisation tools for 2023 and into 2024. You’ll learn what cloud cost optimisation and cloud cost management are, the best services for reducing your cloud costs, and how some of them can shrink your carbon footprint – as well as your monthly bill.

5 Ways Companies Gamified FinOps To Drive A Cost-Aware Engineering Culture

Getting engineers to take action to optimize spending can feel like an eternal struggle for many cloud-based companies. In fact, this particular issue is consistently considered to be one of the number-one cost challenges modern companies face. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be this way. Below are a few creative ways companies have gamified FinOps practices to make the learning process more interesting and rewarding for engineers.

How Our FinOps Account Management Team Helps You Achieve Your Cloud Savings Goals

At CloudZero, we’re in the business of driving positive business change. Whenever we work with a client, our goal is to share insights rooted in our FinOps perspective and platform expertise that helps customers save on cloud costs and build strategies for engineering-led optimizations. Each experience is curated for the clients FinOps maturity stage and unique business goals; that’s what personalized service is all about.