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AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) Explained: Unlocking Cost Insights and Optimization Opportunities

We understand how difficult it can be to fully understand what total cloud costs are: direct and indirect costs, applied credits, auto-scaling. But you can't bury your head in the sand and ignore them - you have to look them straight in the eye!

What is a Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP)?

Las Vegas here we come! AWS re:invent is happening in Las Vegas from November 28 - December 1, it's a celebration of everything we love, ingenuity, innovation, and forward thinking technologists. It is why we are proud to sponsor this tremendous event this year. AmazonWeb Services (AWS) provides the most mature and scalable public cloud service for your business today, we provide a Cloud Infrastructure change intelligence platform that solves the complexity of cloud management - we are as they say "better together". It is a classic case of the sum is greater than its parts.We have assembled a team of cloud complexity re:solvers that are going to attend AWS re:invent and spread our message of saving time, money and team burnout by making the cloud simple to manage.

Running complex computing systems requires technology to make it easier for developers and managers to operate and constantly improve their applications. Containers are extremely effective for enterprises as well as startups Gartner predicts that 70% of global organizations will be running more than two containerized applications by 2023. Using containers reduces deployment time, review cycles and upgrades security with the inherent isolation of the product.

In the previous hands-on we went over how you can predict the impact of proposed changes made with Terraform and prevent critical mistakes before deploying them with Lightlytics Simulation.In our next hands-on, we'll go over troubleshooting issues in one of the top most used AWS services: AWS Lambda.

Harnessing AWS Budgets for Proactive Cost Management and Monitoring

Computing and production giants have realized that in order to predict outcomes in large-scale systems truly you need more than just a simulation. There are many definitions of a digital twin but the general consensus is around this definition "a virtual representation of an object or system that spans its lifecycle, is updated from real-time data and uses simulation, machine learning, and reasoning to help decision-making." By having better and constantly updated data related to a wide range of areas, combined with the added computing power that accompanies a virtual environment, digital twins are able to give a clearer picture and address more issues from far more vantage points than a standard simulation can, with greater ultimate potential to improve products and processes.

OpenSearch is a powerful search and analytics engine that enables organizations to build custom search experiences and analyze their data in real-time. With the capability to handle large datasets, it has become a popular choice for businesses to manage their data. However, as with any powerful technology, OpenSearch can also come with substantial costs if not managed properly. This article will provide you with essential tips and best practices to help you optimize your OpenSearch costs, ensuring that you get the most value from your investment.

The costs of doing business in the cloud are, for a lack of a better word - cloudy. When analyzing Cloud costs there are more and more variables to consider. Our way of looking at this complexity is a holistic one, we enable a first-ever practice of real-time simulation to get "the big picture" context of IaC changes. The ability to look at your cloud posture from a different angle gives a broader more meaningful look at your cloud business costs. After years of Cloud Infrastructure experience, we can truly say that the most valuable resource and the one that costs the most is time. Our solution addresses cloud complexity head-on by allowing Cloud practitioners to see with context the effects of IaC changes and provide architectural standards whether community based or custom to keep your cloud strategy inline.