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Why Hourly Granularity Is Necessary For Effective Cloud Cost Management

Nov 27, 2023 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero
Cloud spenders of all sizes, but particularly those who have exceeded the $50,000 a month benchmark, know how challenging it can be to extract meaningful insights from their spend environments. As a digital-native company grows, its spend environment naturally gets more complicated — and without a strong organizational framework, what could be a treasure trove of data turns into a rat’s nest of semi-organized, confounding figures.
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A Beginner-Friendly Guide To Azure Cloud Management

Nov 23, 2023 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
As a provider of over 200 cloud products and services, Microsoft Azure provides most of the capabilities you need to manage your cloud workloads. While this breadth of services can be beneficial, it can also create complexity issues, such as reducing cloud cost visibility and increasing security blind spots. Proper Azure cloud management can change this. In this snackable guide, we’ll share what Azure cloud management is, the key tools you need to manage your Azure environment, and more.
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A Quick Guide To Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Tools

Nov 22, 2023 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Over the past few years, Google has grown its cloud services to include more than 100 products and services. Today, Google Cloud rubs shoulders with the top two cloud service providers. Yet, managing a Google Cloud environment has become increasingly challenging as the platform expands its GCP tools. It’s not just Google Cloud. The same is true today for other leading public cloud providers. To its credit, Google Cloud provides plenty of tools to help you get the most out of the platform.
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15 Crucial Azure Tools You Need To Know Now

Nov 21, 2023 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
What Does Microsoft Azure Do? Azure Development Tools Azure Cost And Resource Management Tools Azure Security Tools Azure Monitoring And Reporting Tools How To Choose The Best Azure Tools For Your Business View The People, Products, And Processes That Drive Your Cloud Spend With CloudZero Modern cloud environments can be challenging to manage. It doesn’t have to be that way if you use the right tools.
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Engineering-Led Optimization: How To Proactively Manage Cloud Costs Without Slowing Down Innovation

Nov 21, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
How Engineering-Led Optimization Works Achieve Cloud Efficiency Without Slowing Down Innovation Historically, cloud cost optimization has been the responsibility of finance teams. Engineers have bought what they claim to need to build top-notch software; finance teams have gotten (and paid) the bill; neither has had an in-depth understanding of what the other is doing.
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5 Simple Steps to Reduce Your AWS S3 Bill

Nov 20, 2023 By David Drai In Anodot

Understanding your AWS S3 billing is crucial to effectively manage and reduce your costs. Charges in AWS S3 are primarily based on three factors: the amount of data you store, the number of requests you make, and data transfer fees. Storage costs are calculated per gigabyte (GB) stored, which are tiered depending on the total size of your data. Requests costs are incurred with each put, get, or list operation on your objects, with prices varying based on the type of request.

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Product Release Notes October 2023

Nov 16, 2023 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero
The 2023 CloudZero Makeover (Rebrand) Role-Based Access Control: New Editor Role Usage Data In Analytics View Your Data By GCP Tags CostFormation® Proportional Allocation Improvements Small Bites If you’ve visited CloudZero lately, you’ve probably seen a few changes. New logo, new app, new website, new look and feel — okay, more than a few changes. What provoked the rebrand?
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Managing observability spend with Grafana Cloud's Cost Management Hub

Nov 14, 2023 By Grafana In Grafana
Learn how Grafana Cloud helps analyze, manage and optimize observability spend from a central location called the cost management hub. The move to cloud-native architectures like K8s and Prometheus has caused an unprecedented increase in telemetry data that has resulted in observability bills skyrocketing. With Grafana Cloud and the central cost management hub, you will be able to answer any cost-related question with the tools to inspect, attribute, optimize and monitor your observability spend.
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Manage log volumes, metrics cardinality, monthly bills: Explore Grafana Cloud cost management tools

Nov 14, 2023 By Archana Kesavan, Steven Dungan, Daniel Ken Lee In Grafana

As more organizations adopt observability at massive scale, they have also been grappling with rising costs. Over the past 12 months, we have been working on different solutions to help our users better understand and manage their observability stack, not to mention the bills that come with scaling it.

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Why Automatic Cloud Cost Optimization Isn't Enough

Nov 13, 2023 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
As the leader of a SaaS company, you’re just as busy as you are concerned with making sure your bottom line is as healthy as possible. There’s no denying that putting some aspects of cloud cost management on autopilot is a useful strategy. Most automated cost optimization platforms — one of our favorites is ProsperOps — use advanced algorithms to identify areas where you can find provider discounts or lower-cost alternatives to the resources you’re using now.
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