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The cloud offers many benefits, including scalability, cost savings, and operational efficiency. But here’s the deal. Organizing, monitoring, and controlling a cloud environment can become complex as workloads, applications, services, and underlying infrastructure grow. Businesses can better control and monitor their cloud infrastructure services, resources, and data using cloud management software.

Global cloud spending will surge past $700 billion this year. Megacaps alone will spend more than $300 billion on AI in 2025, with much more on the way. The innovation potential of the cloud has never been higher, never been more hotly contested, and never come with a higher price tag. In the late 2000s, the cloud reshaped the global economy and enabled life as we know it. Now, in the mid 2020s, AI is poised to do the same.

Over the last few years, more organizations have switched from relying solely on one cloud service provider (CSP) to several. The primary reasons for the change are minimizing dependence on a single CSP, preventing vendor lock-in, and providing greater flexibility. Recent trends include using a mix of cloud providers to take advantage of the cost savings several CSPs offer and using best-of-breed services for different applications, teams, or departments.

Cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations, powering everything from day-to-day collaboration to large-scale digital transformation initiatives. As organizations deepen their reliance on cloud services, the financial stakes continue to grow. According to Gartner, global spending on public cloud services is projected to reach over $720 billion in 2025, a significant increase from nearly $600 billion in 2024.

At first glance, AWS Config seems like a no-brainer for tracking changes, catching misconfigurations, and proving compliance. But beneath the surface, Config pricing can get surprisingly intricate. Costs don’t just depend on the number of resources you monitor. They also hinge on how often those resources change, how many rules you evaluate, and how you manage historical data. In this guide, we’ll demystify AWS Config pricing.

In our post, 9 Continuous Delivery Tools For Reliable Releases, we explored why continuous delivery is critical to building robust development pipelines — and how it helps teams deliver customer value while boosting the bottom line. Today, we’re diving into the next evolution of that pipeline: continuous deployment. Today’s technology companies need to release quality features quickly and put them in users’ hands even quicker.

On May 1st, AWS corrected a long-standing billing bug tied to Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) data transfers between Availability Zones (AZs) and regions. That fix triggered a noticeable increase in charges for many users, especially for those with high traffic volumes or distributed architectures. The problem wasn’t new usage; it was a silent correction to an old error.

As your organization scales its Datadog footprint, you want to understand what’s driving cost changes and promote cost awareness. But to take meaningful action, you need more than a monthly bill—you need real-time, contextualized cost data tied to services and teams. Without this visibility, it’s hard to assign ownership, prevent cost overruns, or identify which changes are affecting spend.

We recently explored what the cloud is and how it has evolved over 60 years. Yet, cloud computingWe recently explored the cloud and how it has evolved over 60 years. Yet, cloud computing emerged into what it is today in 2002, when Amazon, the e-commerce giant, sought a more efficient way to expand its online marketplace. So, it is unsurprising that the company’s cloud services subsidiary (AWS), which launched in 2006, is today’s largest Cloud Service Provider (CSP).

It came as a pleasant surprise. CloudZero recently discovered over $1.7 million in annualized savings. And, all from our own infrastructure. Otherwise, we would have spent $1.7 million on cloud resources we didn’t actually need. Cloud savings stories like this are common with CloudZero customers, and we often find companies spending more than they should in the cloud. If your team is also struggling with managing and controlling the cost of cloud computing, then this guide is for you!