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Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, has become an essential part of modern businesses, offering a vast array of services and resources. However, effective cost management in Azure is crucial to avoid unexpected expenses and optimize spending. While Azure provides its native tools for cost management, several third-party solutions offer advanced features and capabilities to help you make the most of your Azure resources. This blog will explore the top 24 Azure cost management tools.

In today’s fast-paced technology landscape, creating a robust developer platform is essential for streamlining software development processes and ensuring efficient collaboration across teams. In this talk, we will explore how you can build your own developer platform in just 90 minutes using a powerful combination of Backstage, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes (K8s).

Metrics are crucial to maintaining efficiency, managing costs, and ensuring the health of cloud resources. Amazon CloudWatch can track over 100+ metrics by default across many AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, and more. In this guide, we’ll explain the different types of CloudWatch metrics and how to set them up. We’ll also help you understand how to manage and optimize expensive CloudWatch logs through a cost intelligence approach. But first…

Learn how to implement proper logging in Flask, from development to production, and avoid the pitfalls of scattered print statements.

Learn how to access and use Docker logs to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve your containerized apps in this simple guide for developers.

Sometimes, even when you’re running on a solid infrastructure like AWS EKS, a growing company needs to rethink how they manage it. One startup, fresh off a successful Series A raise, found themselves in just that situation. They had been running two EKS clusters — Production and Staging — managed entirely by their CTO, who is an experienced AWS power user.

As organizations increasingly turn to Kubernetes to support their cloud-native applications, it has become critical for teams to analyze and respond to the dense telemetry data related to this orchestration layer.

With the shift toward 5G and the forthcoming 6G evolution, Network Operations Centers (NOCs) are under increasing pressure to keep up with the complexities of modern telecommunications. At the heart of this evolution is the Radio Access Network (RAN), which has developed from supporting basic voice services to enabling the high-speed, low-latency networks essential for IoT, smart cities, and autonomous vehicles.