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How CloudZero Built an Engineering Culture of Cost Autonomy

Feb 12, 2021 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero
As a cloud cost intelligence company, we often like to say “every line of code is a buying decision”. If you’re running on AWS or one of the other big cloud providers, you know that a simple decision about how to architect an application can have a significant impact on your future cost of goods sold (COGS). However, in my experience, many engineering teams don’t discuss cost — at least not until it’s already become a problem.
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Continuous Optimization in AWS CodePipeline using CloudFormation

Feb 11, 2021 By Dinesh Raveendran In Densify

For those of you who aren’t familiar with AWS CodePipeline, it’s a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework that enables application development teams to deliver code updates more frequently and reliably. You may have also heard it being called a CI/CD or DevOps pipeline. These pipelines have always traditionally been used to deploy the components of a certain application whenever new code in “checked-in”.

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Should You Build Your Own Cloud Cost Optimization Tool? 3 Questions To Ask Yourself

Feb 9, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero
This is a follow up to a blog series where we explore DIY cloud cost management, monitoring, and optimization tools. In the first, we investigated how Lyft, Netflix, Segment, Expedia, and Slack built theirs. Check it out here. “Build versus buy” is the eternal question for every engineering and DevOps team setting out to solve a technical problem. In the cloud cost monitoring and optimization world, both options can take on many forms.
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Why choose Anodot for AWS cloud costs monitoring?

Feb 8, 2021 By Anodot In Anodot
Anodot collects AWS real-time usage metrics and AWS CUR files to enable full visibility. Anodot automatically learns each service usage pattern, using patented anomaly detection technology and alert relevant teams to anomalous spikes or drops in real-time. Our patented anomaly detection technology learns the behavior and every service you use - EC2, S3, ELB and the rest, to automatically identify any deviation from the expected usage and cost pattens. Leave alert storms, false positives, and dashboards behind and leverage the power of proactive, autonomous monitoring.
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SquaredUp helps customers save 20% of Azure costs

Feb 3, 2021 By Squared Up In Squared Up

Are you suffering from overspending in Azure, lack of cost visibility and lack of context? You’re not alone; Azure cost management is a problem we hear about time and time again. That is why we created top-notch cost tiles that would allow users to build the perfect Azure cost dashboard, and help them quickly identify overspends and expensive resources in their Azure tenant.

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What Does a CTO Do When a 60PB Hadoop Cluster Devours the IT Budget?

Jan 29, 2021 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
In 2019, the CTO of a large global bank realized a problem: Their data continued to grow, costs for their Hadoop cluster rapidly escalated, and these costs started eating into their annual IT budget. Moving off of Hadoop, or “lift-and-shift” was out of the question. They needed a way to cap their cost and growth without impacting their ability to remain market competitive.
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Multi-Cloud Strategy vs. Multi-Service: A Smarter Cloud Approach

Jan 29, 2021 By Erik In CloudZero
Multi-cloud has become a hot-button topic these days, with a lot of cloud experts taking a strong stance against the practice. There are exceptions and legitimate reasons why you might choose a multi-cloud strategy (e.g., you sell to customers who restrict you from hosting their data in AWS). Extenuating circumstances aside, there are far more reasons why multi-cloud isn’t a good idea.
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Introducing Cloud Cost Intelligence for Snowflake

Jan 26, 2021 By Tim Buntel In CloudZero
Here at CloudZero, we work with some of the top software-driven companies out there. Like us, they’re building their products on Amazon Web Services (AWS), along with whatever best-of-breed providers meet their needs. It’s no secret that in recent years, Snowflake has seen — well, some serious success. For many companies, including CloudZero, they're the data warehouse provider of choice — and an essential component of delivering their products.
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The New Age of Cloud Cost Management: Cloud Cost Intelligence (And 8 Best Practices)

Jan 21, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero
As companies are increasingly built in the cloud, cost management has become a major issue for many engineering teams. While cloud providers like AWS offer flexibility and easy scaling, cloud costs can be opaque and difficult to track. As a result, many companies that rely on the cloud are adopting cloud cost management strategies to understand and manage the charges associated with their cloud-based technology, and maximize cloud usage and efficiency.
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