Yotascale Blog

Cloud cost anomaly detection saved the day, the month, at Zoom
After receiving an alert from Yotascale, the cloud cost analyst immediately worked with the engineer responsible to remediate the issue and saved Zoom from a runaway cloud cost catastrophe.

Overcome the challenges of operating in a multi-currency, multi-cloud world
With a multi-cloud strategy often comes a multi-currency challenge in terms of cloud cost observability as some of the cloud providers, like Azure, allow companies to be billed in any currency. The new Yotascale multi-currency service removes the challenge of getting a single pane of glass view of all your cloud costs.

Exploring the Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Management Tooling
The Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Management Tooling is out, and has some great insights about what to look for when assessing cloud management tools. Yotascale is delighted to be included in the guide!

The 2022 State of Cloud Observability
Cloud observability is a broad category that encompasses performance monitoring, security monitoring, cloud cost monitoring and more. The 2022 ESG Distributed Cloud: Observability survey gives great insight into the state of cloud observability today.

The Value of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Cloud Cost Management
Role-based access control (RBAC) is a powerful, yet simple, tool for organizations to manage application and data access. RBAC for cloud cost management ensures that the right people have access to the data they need to succeed, without sacrificing data privacy and control.

Challenges of Multi-Cloud Cost Management
Multi-cloud infrastructures can complicate multi-cloud cost management and cloud cost visibility. Learn some basic challenges and best practices for multi-cloud cost management.

Understanding AWS Tags for Greater Visibility in Cloud Spend
Creating proper tagging hygiene is fundamental when looking to gain greater visibility in your cloud spend. This blog provides an introduction to tagging in AWS as well as how tags help with categorizing, identifying, and managing resources to effectively govern cloud costs.

We’ve Always Known We Were ‘Cool’
Being recognized as a Gartner “Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing” is very exciting for everyone at Yotascale. Our team has strived to create an innovative solution that our customers depend on to manage the complex cloud environments that are the backbone of their business.

The Environmental Impact of Cloud Computing & Cloud Waste Podcast
During this Cloudtweaks podcast, our CEO, Asim Razzaq, speaks with the host Steve Prentice on the environmental impact of cloud computing. We can measure cloud waste with unused or underutilized reserved instances, but how can we measure the carbon footprint of cloud waste?

Understanding the Value of Labels in Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
Implementing containers and Kubernetes into your on-premises or cloud environment became necessary as businesses raced to modernize, but some have struggled to efficiently manage microservice-based containers. This blog reviews Kubernetes labels, label selectors, and tagging in Amazon EKS.

A Guide to Cloud Cost Visibility
There are multiple cloud cost management services available for managing your cloud spend. This guide will help you understand the benefits of those services as well as highlight some of the gaps that are also important to consider when looking to gain deeper visibility into your cloud costs.

Managing and Optimizing Your Kubernetes Costs: Part 2 of 2
Kubernetes is one of the leading tools for managing cloud-native applications, but understanding what drives the costs of your Kubernetes clusters can be challenging. In this two-part series, we’ll explore the aspects of Kubernetes costs and strategies for optimizing those costs.

What Drives the Cost of Kubernetes?: Part 1 of 2
Kubernetes is one of the leading tools for managing cloud-native applications, but understanding what drives the costs of your Kubernetes clusters can be challenging. In this two-part series, we’ll explore the aspects of Kubernetes costs and strategies for optimizing those costs.