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How to Automate Azure Cost Reports in Minutes?

Reporting Azure costs to stakeholders doesn't have to be a time-consuming task. In this video, Michael Stephenson - a FinOps certified practitioner, introduces a new feature that helps you generate ready-to-use PowerPoint reports—so you can walk into any meeting with clear insights on your team's Azure cost performance. From cost trends and anomalies to right-sizing recommendations, the Executive Summary Report gives you a complete picture in minutes. It's all about making Azure cost optimization easier, faster, and more actionable.

How Successful Teams Master Cloud Resource Management

Cloud computing promised speed, scale, and freedom. And it delivered. Engineers can deploy in seconds. Teams can scale globally overnight. But somewhere between all that freedom and speed, control got blurry. Resources piled up. Budgets ballooned. And suddenly, no one could answer the simple question: What are we paying for and why? Cloud resource management is how we reclaim that control, without slowing down.

Azure Cost Optimization Best Practices - you can actually implement

Explore actionable strategies for Azure cost optimization—helping you move from just monitoring to actually reducing spend. Discover how leading teams are embedding FinOps best practices, leveraging automation, and building a cost-aware culture to keep cloud bills under control.

Monitoring ECS Metrics: A Guide for Developers and Operations Teams

For anyone leveraging cloud computing, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) continues to provide a seamless solution for managing containerized applications. AWS Fargate takes this cloud-native architecture a step further by allowing you to run containers without servers or clusters. As a serverless offering for ECS, Fargate provisions compute capacity and scales it based on demand.

Create rich, up-to-date visualizations of your AWS infrastructure with Cloudcraft in Datadog

As your cloud environment grows more complex and dynamic, it becomes more difficult to maintain up-to-date reference diagrams, visualizing its components, that are available to all teams. As a result, teams often end up lacking the visibility they need to understand, manage, and troubleshoot their cloud infrastructure and applications.

9 Best OpenShift Alternatives For Today's DevOps Teams

OpenShift delivers a lot right out of the box. And for many teams running at enterprise scale, it’s exactly what they need. The platform offers a built-in container registry, observability tools, and service mesh support. You also get integrations for GitOps, serverless, and even ML workflows. OpenShift combines powerful orchestration with developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise-grade security. All under one roof.

What's New in Turbo360 - Azure Budget planner, Executive cost summary report, Snooze monitoring....

Turbo360 brings a suite of enhancements added to elevate your Azure management experience. Hit play to hear what's in store for this month. Introduction (00:00:00) Executive cost summary report (00:00:15) Budget planner (00:01:14) Pause monitoring feature (00:01:51) Exporting and Importing business transactions (00:02:23) Direct Access to Azure Resources (00:02:55) Conclusion (00:03:17)

RAM vs Storage: Differences You Need to Know

When shopping for new laptops or computers, you may want to consider your RAM vs storage needs. But if you’re wondering which one is more important, or what the differences are, you’re not alone! We will cover everything you need to know about RAM vs storage, how to upgrade both, and how Internxt can help you free up storage on your device with its virtual drive app, a method to store files in the cloud as if you were interacting with your computer’s hard disk.