Top 3 tips for AWS cost optimization
Understanding and allocating your cloud costs is the first step to AWS cost optimization. These tips will help you manage and reduce your spend on AWS.
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Understanding AWS Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans
When it comes to efficiently managing cloud spend within AWS, understanding the differences between cost savings with Reserved Instances and AWS Savings Plans is necessary. This blog illustrates the difference between RIs and Savings Plans and provides an overview of when to use them.
Know what you’re cutting when cloud costs are on the cutting block
Making a significant dent in cloud costs just for the sake of cost cutting is easier said than done, especially for tech companies born in the cloud. Here’s some food for thought when you’re looking at cutting costs.
Diving into the Forrester Now Tech: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization Q2 2022 report
The Forrester Now Tech: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization report explores and highlights vendors like Yotascale and gives great guidance on finding a cloud cost management product to suit your business needs.
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.
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.
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.