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The Ultimate Guide To IT Showback
Reading Time: 7 minutes Cloud computing has become increasingly popular over the last few years, providing businesses with an efficient and cost-effective way to access and store data. The showback model is a way for businesses to track their usage and costs of cloud computing, making it possible to identify areas for improvement and better manage their cloud services….
Hiring a FinOps Specialist? Job Description with Template and Interview Questions
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hiring a FinOps specialist is becoming increasingly important in today’s business environment as organizations look to maximize operational efficiency and reduce costs. FinOps is the intersection of finance and operations and involves the use of financial analysis and data management to make decisions about business operations. A FinOps specialist provides financial analysis, oversight, and support…
Cloud Economics: Basics, Benefits, and Use Cases
Reading Time: 5 minutes The cloud has taken the tech world by storm in the past few years. It has become an essential tool for businesses, providing an easy way to store data, access applications, and manage networks. But as companies rely more and more on the cloud, they have to be mindful of their cloud economics. Cloud economics…
Cloud Financial Management: Basics, Benefits, and Best Practices
Reading Time: 5 minutes The financial management of any organization is an integral part of its success. With the advent of cloud-based technology, managing financials has become much easier. Cloud financial management is a process by which organizations can utilize cloud-based data to securely, efficiently, and cost-effectively manage their financials. It also provides access to data and analytics, allowing…
Understanding AWS savings plan VS Reserved Instances
Reading Time: 4 minutes When it comes to cloud computing services, AWS is the absolute king. But even in the sphere of beneficial saving plans that promote economical scaling, AWS is surely not lagging behind. With numerous other discount offers, the top most advantageous plans for cloud cost optimization include the AWS savings plan VS Reserved Instances. But, there…
Top 8 Cloud Cost Management Tools To Manage Cloud Costs
Reading Time: 7 minutes Data is king these days. And data stands at almost zero with appropriate cloud services. Cloud data services are the bliss of data storage and management. However, cloud costs are among the major expenses of all organizations. According to Zippia, by the end of 2022, U.S. cloud spending is expected to reach $90 billion. That…
10 Most Recommended Cloud Management Platforms in 2023!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Scalability, cost savings, and operational effectiveness are just a few advantages of the cloud. But here’s the situation. As workloads, applications, services, and supporting infrastructure increase, organizing, monitoring, and controlling a cloud environment may become challenging. Businesses may better manage and keep an eye on their cloud infrastructure services, resources, and data by using cloud…
Reduce NAT Gateway Costs Using nOps Deep Insight Service
Reading Time: 3 minutes What Caused the Network Cost Spike? Sounds like an easy question right? If you are responsible for managing cloud spend, AWS NAT Gateways are one of the classic AWS gotchas. What causes a networking spike is not an easy question to answer. NAT gateway cost can run up your AWS bill quickly without you realizing…
How I Saved My Company $15,000 by Finding and Removing Untagged AWS Resources Using nOps Cloud Management Platform
Reading Time: 6 minutes I’ve been thinking about how to start this post for the past week. Do I start it off with “Why does every Cost Optimization webinar, conversation, or chat always talk about tagging or the lack thereof?” Probably for the same reason that I’m writing this post about tagging and how I saved my company $15k…