A decade after launching Reserved Instances (RIs), Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans as a more flexible alternative to RIs. AWS Savings Plans are not meant to replace Reserved Instances; they are complementary. SPs and RIs have some significant differences that make each better suited to specific uses. As an example, while Savings Plans are applicable to both EC2 and Fargate instances, RIs are only applicable to EC2 instances.

We all want growth, but we often find ourselves unequipped to deal with it. It’s a bit like going to the gym, lifting weights, and seeing real results, only to realize that you no longer fit into your old clothes. Now you have to decide if you want to modify them or buy new clothes. We can use this very simple analogy to understand the differences between horizontal and vertical scaling.

Successful DevOps implementation is critical for enhancing the efficiency, reliability, and quality of software development and delivery. To evaluate the effectiveness of DevOps practices, various metrics can be used. Below is a detailed overview of key metrics.

DevOps is crucial for growing organizations, enhancing collaboration between development and operations teams to expedite deployment cycles and improve overall efficiency. Selecting the right DevOps engineer for your team, especially when new to DevOps, is vital. A poor hiring decision can significantly impact your organization, resulting in higher costs, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities.

Jul 17, 2024: Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed PostgreSQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your PostgreSQL databases across private and public clouds. PostgreSQL is an open source database management system. It has been successfully used for more than 3 decades across all IT sectors. Its maturity and its vibrant community consistently make it a first-choice DBMS among developers.

Before the development of AWS cost estimation tools, users faced challenges in predicting cloud costs due to complex pricing structures and multiple service configurations. This often led to surprise charges and made budgeting and optimizing cloud costs difficult. To address these issues, AWS introduced its own cost estimation tools. These include the Cost Explorer, the Pricing Calculator, AWS Budgets, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Trusted Advisor, and the AWS Cost and Usage Report.

Erik Peterson, our CTO and Founder here at CloudZero, recently hosted a webinar-style interview with Matthew “MJ” Jackson, DevOps Lead at Drift. This interview took a deep dive into the methods Drift used to take control of their cloud spending. If you own, manage, or otherwise have any stake in a SaaS company that heavily utilizes the cloud, you’ll want to read on to see the highlights of this conversation.

"Summertime, and the livin’ is easy," say the lyrics to a much-loved song. And HAProxy’s user ratings on the quarterly G2 Grid Reports for Summer 2024 are hot indeed with a Satisfaction Score of 98! G2 Grid Reports are quarterly reports from G2.com, the world’s leading platform for real user reviews of business software. HAProxy’s press release describes the results in detail. For this summer, HAProxy achieved a record 18 Leader positions.

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Applications Manager now supports Azure security services, container services, integration services, storage sync services, app service plans, and more.