Tag: cloud cost management

AWS Delivers on Latest Graviton3 Price/Performance Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the number of virtual machines based on the latest generation of its Graviton processors to include instances that support DDR-5 memory. The latest Amazon EC2 instance ...

5 Technologies Powering Cloud Optimization
Cloud optimization is the process of improving the performance, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of cloud computing resources and services. It involves identifying and addressing inefficiencies in cloud architecture, application design and resource utilization, ...

Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Orchestration
Kubernetes continues to grow as the leading container orchestrator for high-performance, cloud-native DevOps, DevSecOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) use cases. While Kubernetes offers excellent orchestration capabilities, it does not, by itself, ...

EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
In this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work ...

Datadog Extends Reach of Integrated DevOps Platform
At its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, ...

More Choices, More Problems: The Double-Edged Sword of Multi-Cloud
Multi-cloud environments can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there are clear benefits to using whatever cloud or tool is best for your particular needs, regardless of vendor – in ...

Exploring the Emerging Role of FinOps
Cloud overspending is becoming a top-of-mind budget item for the modern CFO. To direct resource utilization in the cloud, some organizations are turning to increased automation and more diligent cloud procurement processes ...

Reducing Energy Consumption With Cloud Cost Efficiency
A new study from Stanford University found that it takes 75 gigajoules per year of energy for a person to have a good, long life, but the average American uses nearly four ...

Four Steps to Avoiding a Cloud Cost Incident
The recent Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report found that organizations waste 32% of their cloud spend, up from 3o% last year. This can be due to cloud cost incidents triggered ...

Survey Surfaces Multi-Cloud Computing and Cost Challenges
A survey of 360 CIOs and IT leaders in the U.S. and the United Kingdom found that, as the number of cloud platforms an organization employs expands, the number of tools they ...

IT Spending to Reach $4.4 Trillion in 2022
For those who doubted the digital transformation trend, it’s become clear that it’s not a marketing fad or a buzzword but is now standard operating protocol for businesses. A forecast released this ...

How Observability Can Improve Gaming
Competing in the gaming industry is becoming increasingly costly. To attract new players, millions of dollars are spent in user acquisition (UA), development and cloud infrastructure. As the space becomes more expensive, ...