In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered cloud computing as we know it today. And with about 34% of the market share, Amazon Web Services remains the largest cloud infrastructure provider today, followed by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). AWS is a Cloud Service Provider (CSP). That means AWS builds, maintains, and continually improves multiple data centers worldwide and then rents the computing infrastructure out to other companies as needed, over the Internet.

In software engineering, measuring your performance gives you the knowledge you need to make informed decisions regarding your products, features, processes, and even your dev teams. Measuring also tells you if you’re on track to meet your engineering goals. Yet, with an abundance of tasks, data, and other information to keep track of, how do you decide on the right metrics to monitor?

Over the past few years, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the preferred method of orchestrating containers and microservices. Its self-healing, high scalability, and open-source nature make it appealing to a wide range of users. However, deploying, running, and scaling containerized applications and microservices with Kubernetes can be quite challenging. The Kubernetes community keeps growing, but there still aren’t that many experienced K8s engineers.

Managing cloud computing costs is a big deal right now. For instance, 60% of organizations say their cloud costs are higher (over 70%) than they should be, according to our State of Cloud Cost Intelligence report. Over the last five years, several other studies have shown that controlling cloud spend is a top cloud computing challenge. Yet almost all organizations acknowledge that moving more workloads to the cloud is a top cloud initiative in the next year.

We built CloudZero for a simple reason: Bring business fundamentals to cloud-driven organizations without stifling innovation. It sounds simple, but for years, the intrinsic complexities of the cloud and extrinsic pressures to grab SaaS market share made it near-impossible for businesses to achieve this. Until CloudZero.

All the major cloud providers allow users to attach business context to their infrastructure in some way. It’s this context that allows users to divide up their cloud bill into more easily digestible bites and keep track of cost trends for different resource types. Thorough cloud cost allocation gives companies the ability to make educated business decisions.

Snowflake’s scalable architecture, minimal latency, advanced analytics, simplified data handling, flexible pay-as-you-go model, and always-on security make the data cloud a top choice for many businesses. You can also purchase Snowflake resources on-demand or upfront. But if you struggle to control your Snowflake costs, you’re not alone. With the help of this guide, you’ll know how to better manage your Snowflake costs.

Picture this. Over 90% of organizations use the cloud in one form or another, according to O'Reiley's research. Cloud computing is so popular because of its flexibility. Because you can access cloud computing resources on-demand, you can automatically increase or decrease resource usage depending on your workload, which is incredibly appealing — and quite different from traditional IT infrastructure. In 2023, controlling cloud spend is one of the greatest challenges for cloud users today.

One powerful way SaaS companies can balance their own costs while still providing plenty of value to their customers is to be strategic about pricing tiers and payment plans. When customers can choose the service levels they want at prices they can afford, and your company is compensated for its associated cloud expenses while achieving a healthy profit, you know you’ve done it right.

Syncing files and folders across multiple devices, updating them between remote team members, and sharing them across individuals and teams are all essential aspects of running a modern business. Cloud storage services enable small businesses and enterprises to manage their data on-demand, scalably, and in a largely fail-safe manner. Their cloud infrastructure enables you to store documents, spreadsheets, videos, and other types of data formats online.