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How to control your overage bills

We all know how tricky it can be to keep track of costs, especially when your projects spike or with the latest feature that your users love. That's why we've been working on a solution to ensure you never have surprise billing due to on-demand occurrences. Introducing our latest feature to give you both flexibility and control: Overage Budgets.

Introduction to AWS Enterprise Support Plans

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revolutionized the cloud computing industry by offering a wide range of services designed to provide flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency to businesses of all sizes. Selecting and using the appropriate support plan is essential to making the most of AWS's advantages. For all types of needs, from small businesses to multinational corporations, AWS provides a variety of support plans. This blog will examine the various AWS enterprise support plans and share how working with a partner-led enterprise support can increase the advantages even more while saving money.

5 Reasons Why You Should Work with a FinOps Consulting Partner

In today's world, digital transformation, cloud computing, DevOps, and serverless computing aren't just #trending terms-they're essential for keeping your organization running smoothly. As technology evolves, businesses need to keep pushing for innovation while making sure their cloud infrastructure is flexible, scalable, and reliable. Gartner's got some eye-opening predictions.

Cloud Agnostic Vs. Cloud Native: Key Differences And Use Cases

The cloud computing space is constantly evolving — a fact that can sometimes set the stage for inconsistencies and confusion around both industry terminology and best practices. Cloud agnostic is one of those confusing terms, as is cloud native. But with the number of cloud agnostic and cloud native applications growing, it’s important to set the record straight.

AWS Savings Plan vs Reserved Instances: Your Complete Guide

AWS has Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, two very different opportunities for users to save big on your cloud spend budget. But which of these two plans is best for you, and how can you start saving on your cloud management? In this guide, we’ll cover both options so you can make the best choice when using AWS.

How to do Azure Cost Analysis at Service and Meter level?

This video demonstrates how to use the Cost Analyzer to review expenses by service name and meter. This feature offers detailed cost breakdowns by subscriptions, resource groups, types, service names, and more. This granularity provides organizations with complete visibility into their Azure spending, ensuring transparency and compliance. For effective cloud cost management and governance strategies organizations rely on these insights for optimal resource utilization and budget control.

12 FinOps tools for AWS users

Like DevOps, FinOps is a portmanteau word (a word made by combining two others) and a portmanteau concept. Where DevOps is the joining of development and operations, FinOps is the joining of operations and finance. Like DevOps, FinOps has arisen from a frustration with siloed business capacities, and again like DevOps, FinOps is a part cultural, part tool-driven practice.

AWS Budget Alerts 101: Here's Everything You Need To Know

Picture a fast-growing company that depends heavily on AWS for its infrastructure but doesn’t use AWS Budget Alerts. One month, they received an AWS bill 50% higher than expected. Without any warnings, they could not address the cost anomalies in real time. This led to budget overruns and strained financial planning. The engineering team couldn’t explain to the finance operations how that happened. This situation highlights the need for AWS Budget Alerts.

9 MongoDB Alternatives To Consider (And When To Use Each)

MongoDB has earned quite the credentials as a flexible, high scalability, and reliable database management system. Yet, it isn’t flawless. Several MongoDB alternatives now offer superior advantages for specific use cases. In this guide, we’ll share insights into the strengths and weaknesses of leading alternatives to MongoDB. By the end of this post, you will be in a better position to choose your next DBMS with confidence.

AKS Cost Optimization: How To Lower Your AKS Costs

Cloud-native applications continue to evolve and grow in complexity. And that complexity hurts the most when managing Kubernetes costs in Azure. AKS cost optimization may seem obvious, but it might also seem difficult to achieve. Microsoft’s fully managed Kubernetes service can help you run, manage, and deploy containerized applications. And while it optimizes performance, it can cause unexpected costs when improperly managed.