Cloud Cost Management

It’s that time of the year! The time when you gear up, pack your bags and accelerate towards the biggest cloud event of the year – AWS re:Invent 2018 yet. This will be a grand platform for you to represent your company or product in front of everyone who would potentially care for it... read more

AWS re:Invent 2018 is almost around the corner with less than two weeks to go. To all of you who have been living under a rock, AWS re:Invent is the biggest, nay! The largest cloud computing event in the whole wide world, and this year it is even bigger... read more

When you are running your entire or even a part of your IT infrastructure in AWS cloud, it is really important that you ensure, your workloads, applications, the infrastructure as a whole is secured enough to stand security threats... read more

A conundrum which often emerges in the world of Cloud Computing is ‘What is better among AWS and Azure?’ and ‘Whether Azure on its path to overthrow AWS?’ A whopping 98% increase in Azure revenues is reported in the recent running heads. Whereas only 45% revenue increase is observed in the case of AWS in the past year. However, comparing percentage increase in revenue of Azure and AWS is like comparing apples and oranges... read more

Gartner recently released its IaaS Magic Quadrant for 2017 outlining, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as clear Leaders in the infrastructure-as-a-service space. Google Cloud, on the other hand, made it to the third position trailing behind AWS and Microsoft Azure, placed on top of the Visionary quadrant. But, the curiosity remains; will Google Cloud cross the Visionary border and step its foot on the Leaders quadrant... read more

If you have been dozing under a rock for last few years, Serverless Architecture is your next big step to take in the journey from physical hosting to deploying software or code on the cloud. Following a logical progression from monoliths to microservices, serverless architecture sees the big future through fine-grained, event-driven functions. For some might relate serverless with microservices-based applications but, it is a further breakdown of applications. For every action you make, there is a function focused on an even smaller scope of application logic than that of microservices. Serverless compute is a computational model where no dedicated servers or VMs needs to be up and running on your premises 24×7. It is the Cloud provider you choose, that takes care of everything; from VMs to the underlying infrastructure, orchestration, and automation required to support any type of applications and run a voluminous number of events... read more

If we are talking AWS and its cloud services today, we will probably be talking tomorrow as well……and the discussion never ends. Every time customers feel the need for a particular service or feature, AWS pulls the rabbit out of its hat. As their workloads, resources and infrastructure services keep on mounting, organizations need to scale their cloud environment just in time. Managing and organizing such a vast array of cloud resources then becomes the real challenge... read more

Within an enterprise, different workloads running in the cloud demand different cost allocation based on resources, regions, services used, etc. Since all workloads under AWS cannot be tagged, splitting them into multiple accounts, one account for each workload can help you define cost allocation and differentiate better. But wait! More is more of a problem. Controlling the cost and usage of AWS cloud infrastructure... read more

“The essentiality of cost management” itself becomes demystifying when it comes to leveraging the cloud. In an AWS-dominated cloud world where on-demand and pay-as-you-go pricing models sound reassuring, the newbies entering the Cloud make it obvious for themselves to spiral their cloud costs out of control. But wait! Enterprise IT initiatives are not the only ones that mess up their cloud cost management.... read more