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Today's development and operations teams are intertwined like the strands of a rope. The two heavily depend on each other to form a stronger, more solid unit. Unlike traditional teams that worked in silos, today's developers and operations’ workflows should work like a well-oiled machine. Each component needs to work together to create an efficient system that is greater than the sum of its parts.

At CloudZero, we’re pretty proud of the fact that our platform allows you to maximize your profitability by understanding your unit costs. In fact, our platform’s ability to help you easily track and analyze unit costs is one of the things that sets us apart the most from our competitors. Here is a brief breakdown of why our method of determining your company’s unit economics is so valuable and what our competitors offer — or don’t offer — in comparison.

Curious how Amazon calculates your S3 Storage Costs? Or maybe you’re wondering how you can track, control , and optimize your Amazon S3 Storage bill. This guide provides an in-depth look at Amazon S3 pricing and how to calculate your S3 Storage costs. We’ll cover all the billable elements, and the specific factors that affect S3 Storage pricing. Then, we’ll provide some simple Amazon S3 cost optimization tips that you can use to minimize your storage costs.

Amazon’s CloudHealth and VMware’s CloudHealth are two of the most popular cloud management and system monitoring platforms today. But which platform does what, and are they even direct competitors? In this post, we'll compare the two services and highlight their main differences so you can choose which to use — or whether to use both.

The need to optimize cloud costs is a fact of life for SaaS companies — it’s required to stay competitive. But to optimize effectively, you’ll first need to find a way to accurately allocate all costs to the resources, teams, products, features, and customers that generated them. However, not all cloud cost allocation methods are created equal.

Using the cloud is like ordering a meal from a restaurant. You can choose the type of food you want. You decide the amount you want to order. And, you choose the frequency you want to have it delivered to you. It's an efficient and customizable way to meet your needs — or is it? Each organization has different needs and considerations, and it takes careful thought to find the model that will best serve those needs.

Picture the last time you were sitting at your desk trying to make sense out of the multiple cloud provider bills you just received. The amounts all change from month to month, and you can’t really compare them against each other because they all use different formats. To say this is a confusing and frustrating situation to be in is an understatement. Perhaps you’re there now, which is why you’ve searched for advice on multi-cloud cost management.

But many businesses don’t have insight into where that money goes and whether or not they’re pricing their products accordingly. CloudZero Founder and CTO Erik Peterson sat down with Erik Carlin, Founder and CPO at ProsperOps, to talk about the transition in cloud cost optimization from 1.0 to 2.0. They explored what data engineering teams need to make informed buying decisions, how to turn data into actionable intelligence, and why you should view cloud costs as an opportunity for ROI.

CloudZero’s research has determined that as many as 60% of SaaS business leaders feel their cloud spend is higher than it should be. Considering cloud spend is a dominant portion of a SaaS company’s operating costs, unexpectedly high cloud bills can be a significant problem. While many SaaS leaders use discount plans to stem the bleeding, we believe the better solution lies with giving your engineers the tools to track and optimize costs as they build.

CloudZero just closed at $32M Series B fundraising round in the weakest funding environment since the dawn of the pandemic. The round was led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures, with continued support from existing investors Matrix Partners, Underscore VC, and G20 Ventures. CloudZero is a SaaS product, a data-dense platform delivered via the cloud, mostly to other SaaS companies and digital native businesses (DNBs).