The FinOps Foundation’s FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) promises to normalize cost and usage data and optimize cloud computing costs.
What the Future Holds for FinOps and DevOps
The advent of cloud computing and its pay-as-you-go model means DevOps teams must also manage costs. This is where FinOps comes in.
Best Practices for DevOps in the Hybrid Cloud
To leverage cloud-bursting and safeguard applications and data, DevOps can embrace a hybrid cloud strategy.
DevOps Download: What to Know About Life in the Cloud(s)
According to the 2022 Flexera State of the Cloud Report, 89% of cloud customers now use multiple cloud hosting providers. Nearly nine out of 10 might sound high, but it tracks with the anecdotal evidence we’ve seen. For varied and good reasons, companies are spreading their usage across multiple hyperscalers rather than putting all their […]
Complete Guide to AWS Savings Plans
Monitoring and managing your AWS Savings Plans, as part of your overall cloud operations strategy, can help optimize your cloud computing costs.
Cloud Orchestration and its Impact on DevOps Teams
Cloud orchestration enables organizations and DevOps teams to more easily monitor, control and optimize their cloud environments.
Why You Need a Multi-Cloud and Multi-Region Deployment Strategy
As I began writing this article, I encountered some technical challenges in my attempt to provision three cloud providers in three separate regions to simulate multi-cloud and multi-region deployments. I couldn’t get one of the regions to behave as I expected when provisioning the environment. As it turned out, the region (and by association, cloud) […]
What Is a Cloud Operations Engineer?
CloudOps, short for cloud operations, refers to the processes, tools and strategies employed to manage, monitor and optimize the performance, security and availability of cloud-based infrastructure, applications and services. It encompasses a set of best practices and methodologies that ensure the smooth functioning of cloud environments, including resource provisioning, configuration management, automation, deployment, monitoring and […]
Quick Guide to Azure Storage Pricing
Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage service from Microsoft Azure. It provides a scalable, secure and highly available data storage solution for businesses of any size. The platform includes various services such as Azure Blob, which is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured data such as documents, images, videos and backups. Azure Files […]
Understanding Cloud APIs
Six out of every 10 businesses had moved their workloads to the cloud as of last year. More steady traffic in the cloud and more direct cloud instances mean more to juggle–and the need for greater customization and integration. That’s where APIs come in. APIs are doing for the cloud what they did for on-premises […]