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AI Cost Optimization Strategies For AI-First Organizations

Mar 21, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Not long ago, our co-founder and CTO, Erik Peterson, shared some insights on AI spending. He shared how AI costs currently fall under the write-off-friendly world of R&D. He also acknowledged why DevOps teams might feel it’s too early to start optimizing AI costs. As the saying goes, “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” But after more than a decade of software development, Erik knows that eventually, research, experimentation, and big ideas need to deliver real returns.
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Cost vs. Value: Why High-Quality Office Furniture is a Smart IT Investment

Mar 21, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
When setting up or upgrading an office, many IT businesses focus on the latest hardware, cloud solutions, and cybersecurity measures. However, one often-overlooked aspect of an efficient and productive workspace is office furniture. Choosing the right office furniture isn't just about aesthetics-it's an investment in comfort, productivity, and long-term cost savings. In this article, we'll explore why high-quality office furniture, including computer desks, is a smart IT investment and how businesses can benefit from prioritizing value over short-term cost savings.
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AI Costs In 2025: A Guide To Pricing, Implementation, And Mistakes To Avoid

Mar 18, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
AI costs haven’t been a major factor in cloud computing — until now. For example, AI demands massive data processing and storage, such as for training Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. Additionally, AI workloads require parallel processing, which traditional instances struggle to handle — forcing companies to invest in specialized (and expensive) GPUs to get the job done.
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AWS EFS Pricing Guide: Manage Your Storage Costs Effectively

Mar 17, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a suite of cloud storage services. Among the most widely adopted are Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS, known for their robust scalability, performance, and flexibility for a wide range of workloads. However, AWS also offers Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). This is a serverless file storage service for workloads that need shared, scalable storage for use with AWS services and on-premises resources.
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10 Cloud Provisioning Tools To Drive Infrastructure Innovation

Mar 17, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Cloud provisioning involves defining, setting up, and allocating cloud resources — such as compute power, networking, and storage — so they’re ready for use in your organization. Provisioning used to be slow and error-prone. Not anymore; it’s a streamlined, hands-off process now. But it doesn’t happen on its own. You need the right cloud provisioning tools to automate and optimize the process.
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FinOps As A Service: How To Do Cloud Finance For Smarter Spending

Mar 14, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
We’ve covered the fundamentals of FinOps in several guides on this blog, including FinOps 101, the FinOps maturity journey (as outlined by the FinOps Foundation), and more. But if you need a quick refresher, no worries. We’ve linked key guides on what FinOps is, why it matters, and how to make it work for you in “Related reads” in the next section.
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Product Release Notes February 2025

Mar 11, 2025 By Anand Sundaram In CloudZero
Last week, the FinOps Foundation released its latest installment of the State of FinOps report. This year’s theme: Cloud+. Fortunately for all of us, Cloud+ isn’t yet another streaming service to add to an already infinite list. In the FinOps Foundation’s parlance, Cloud+ refers to all the non-public-cloud spending — e.g., SaaS, AI — that you’d want to group under the broad umbrella of “cloud spending.”
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Cloud Architecture: Building Smart, Cost-Efficient Systems

Mar 10, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Cloud computing offers many advantages over on-premises environments, including scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. Yet, simply using a “lift and shift” strategy — moving your application as-is from an on-premise environment to the cloud with minimal modification can lead to several issues (such as inefficient design, bloated costs, etc.). If you design software or applications for the cloud, it is often best to consider making them cloud-native.
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