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EKS Pricing And Cost Optimization (2025 Guide)

Oct 24, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
AWS did not intend to build Amazon EKS; it simply had to. Kubernetes adoption beamed light years ahead of AWS’s own managed container orchestration service. This forced AWS to develop a managed service to accommodate customers who wanted to use upstream Kubernetes but did not want to manage it themselves. As soon as AWS got around to it, it knocked the Kubernetes-based container management service out of the park. Not only is Amazon EKS simpler than Kubernetes, but EKS pricing may also be worth it.
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Cultural ROI In FinOps: People Drive Pivots

Oct 23, 2025 By Thalia Elie In CloudZero
When I ask clients to picture cloud cost optimization, they think dashboards, policies, maybe a clever right-sizing purchase. What they don’t picture? Meetings. Misunderstandings. Mistrust. To avoid FinOps failures, we need a new starting line; one that gets to the root of spend misalignment.
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From Code To Clicks: A Visual Way To Build Dimensions In CloudZero

Oct 23, 2025 By David Aponovich In CloudZero
In early October, we launched Dimension Studio, a new visual editor for engineers and others that brings point-and-click simplicity to the same powerful, precise allocation engine CloudZero is known for. Before that, when CloudZero users built cloud cost allocations, they got it from our YAML-based CostFormation engine, a code-driven way to describe how cloud and AI costs roll up to products, customers, or teams.
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Optimizing GPU Efficiency and AI Costs with Pepperdata

Oct 23, 2025 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
As AI workloads explode, platform owners face an increasingly common challenge: a massive gap between GPU demand and supply. Pending workloads, idle GPUs, and rising costs make it harder than ever to scale AI efficiently. In this video, we explore how Pepperdata.ai helps enterprises regain control of their GPU environments with two breakthrough solutions: Demand Optimization – Get granular visibility into GPU usage across your entire infrastructure. Identify inefficiencies, balance supply and demand, and uncover hidden capacity.
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Kubernetes For AI: The CTO's Guide

Oct 22, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Kubernetes began as a tool to help teams keep thousands of microservices running without falling apart. It gave them a way to schedule workloads, recover from failures, and scale services without constant firefighting. Now, AI has brought back the same chaos, only magnified. Training jobs sprawl across GPUs. Inference traffic spikes without warning. Pipelines stretch across clusters, clouds, and compliance boundaries. Left unchecked, it can break both your workload and cloud budget.
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Datadog Cloud Cost Management: Make cost a key metric for engineers

Oct 22, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
See how Datadog Cloud Cost Management puts cost and efficiency KPIs directly in front of engineers in their daily workflows. In this short demo, you’ll learn how to: Datadog unifies cost, performance, and business metrics in one platform, so FinOps, engineering, and finance teams can make cost-aware decisions together.
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Datadog Cloud Cost Management: Telemetry-driven cost allocation

Oct 21, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
See why Datadog is a leader in cloud cost allocation. In this demo, learn how Datadog leverages high-resolution observability data to deliver accurate, dynamic cost attribution across clouds and containerized environments. You’ll see how Datadog: Discover how Datadog combines cost, performance, and business context to make cost reporting both accurate and actionable.
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Build Vs. Buy? Why Creating Your Own Cost Management Platform Is Futile

Oct 21, 2025 By Adam Tankanow In CloudZero
The siren song of building a custom, internal cloud cost management platform is enticing. Many brilliant engineering teams are convinced they can come up with a bespoke solution that perfectly fits their needs. They look at their company’s unique infrastructure and decide they can DIY cost management without having to rely on an external vendor. Believe me, I get the temptation.
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When AWS Goes Down: What It Means For Your Cloud Costs

Oct 20, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
A global outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) did more than knock popular apps offline. It laid bare the cost risks embedded in many cloud architectures. As services fail, the hidden costs of high availability, from redundancy planning to recovery operations, often multiply. For cloud cost leaders, this isn’t an issue of uptime; it’s a visibility and budget-shock issue. It’s a key reminder that architecting for resilience involves difficult trade-offs.
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Kubernetes Security Guide: Risks, Strategies, And Tools

Oct 17, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
In 2018, attackers gained access to Tesla’s AWS cloud environment through an unprotected Kubernetes console (admin console). Because it lacked proper authentication, the hackers could see and control cluster resources. Once inside, they deployed new pods running cryptocurrency mining software, using Tesla’s compute power for profit. During the breach, the attackers also uncovered credentials stored in the cluster.
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