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Autumn is officially here and with it another portion of fresh cloud technology news.
This series brings you up to speed with the latest releases, acquisitions, research, and hidden gems in the world of cloud computing – the stuff actually worth reading.
AWS makes a DevOps life hard. How are you supposed to make sense of EC2 pricing when there are 400 different Amazon EC2 instances?
Picking the right VM type for the job is difficult, but it doesn’t have to be.
A DevOps life isn’t a piece of cake in AWS. How are you supposed to make sense of EC2 instance types when you’re looking at almost 400 different ones? Picking the right VM type for the job that doesn’t burn a hole in your pocket is a challenge. But there are a few things you can do to make your life easier (and gain points with your financial department).
Careful choice of EC2 instances is definitely worth your time because compute is the biggest part of your cloud bill. If you manage to optimize it, you’ll open the doors to dramatic reductions in your cloud costs.
In Q1 2021, Zoom reported that its gross margin widened to 73.9% from 69.4% in the previous quarter, primarily thanks to the optimization of public cloud resources. And Zoom is certainly not the only company that realized the value of optimizing the cloud infrastructure. As businesses migrate their workloads to the cloud and build cloud-native applications, they’re starting to realize that overprovisioning and cloud sprawl aren’t just urban legends.
For startups, the cloud is an essential technology because of its unparalleled support for scalability. But the cloud may quickly turn into a struggle because of growing costs. Here's what a16z wrote in a recent analysis:
Bonus: Does your workload qualify for AWS spot instances? [CHEAT SHEET]
You may already know what the catch is.
Cost management gets complicated fast in Kubernetes, and more businesses will face this problem soon. According to Gartner, 75% of companies will be running containerized applications in production by 2022.
If you use Kubernetes on AWS, you’re probably implementing best practices to reduce your bill already. To maximize your cloud cost savings, though, you need to understand the specific challenges Kubernetes poses in cost management and optimization. Read this article to find out what they are and how to handle them.
If your AWS Kubernetes bill went way over your budget this month, it’s not your fault. Typically, companies go over their cloud budgets by 23% (Flexera).
Cloud providers aren’t exactly helping here. The bills are long, complicated, and hard to understand. AWS has 150+ types of EC2 instances available so how are you supposed to make sense of it all?