Cloud Cost Optimization

Apache Kafka is the platform of choice for real-time data processing, but getting it up and running can feel like an uphill battle.  With high throughput and fault tolerance, companies like Spotify rely on this distributed streamlining platform to deliver seamless services for over 600 million global users – supporting everything from log aggregation and […]

The very tools designed to streamline cloud operations can sometimes stretch budgets thin. One good example is managing the costs associated with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). While AWS MSK simplifies deploying and scaling Kafka clusters, the costs can stack up if not optimized. Here’s how you can rethink your AWS MSK deployment […]

Shared Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) have been a common workaround for reducing EC2 costs, but their value has always been limited. On average, these shared pools deliver only 25% savings on On-Demand costs—far below the 60% savings achievable with automated reservation tools. For IT and DevOps teams, the trade-offs include added complexity, […]

Kafka is no longer exclusively the domain of high-velocity Big Data use cases. Today, it is utilized on by workloads and companies of all sizes, supporting asynchronous communication between even small groups of microservices.  But this expanded usage has led to problems with cost creep that threaten many companies’ bottom lines. And due to the […]

A popular e-commerce platform was growing fast, but that growth created challenges. With a poorly optimized cloud setup, the company faced content quality problems, as well as ongoing security issues. The only way to solve the problem was to optimize their CloudFront distribution – leading them to work with GlobalDots’ innovation experts. Using the solution […]

A recent study of over 100 enterprises found more than 15% of AWS cloud bills comes from Elastic Block Store (EBS). But what can you do to cut those costs without impacting performance? The key is to select EBS-optimized instances. With the right combination of EBS-optimized instances and EBS volumes, companies consistently maintain at least […]

In this webinar, we reveal a solution that cuts big data costs by 23% and enhances system efficiency - without changing a single line of code. We’ll also explore 7 key practices that will free your engineers to process and analyze data at the pace and scale they need - and ensure they never lose control of the process.

The move to the cloud has enabled tech leaders to modernize their infrastructure and improve application availability, scalability, and performance.

It’s easy for managers and team leaders to get caught up in the cultural scrum of FinOps. Hobbling many FinOps projects, however, is a lack of on-the-ground support for the DevOps teams that are having to drive this widespread change – this is how all too many FinOps projects become abandoned on the meeting room […]

Achieving FinOps is a tall order: it demands a degree of organizational self-awareness that some companies are constantly battling for. Consider the predicament that many teams find themselves in: while their cloud environments may contain a number of small things that could be optimized, there are no single glaring mistakes that are consuming massive quantities […]

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Optimizing cloud costs through the strategic use of a multi-cloud auto-scaler