8 Changes Drift Made To Save $2.4M In Cloud Cost

Drift's chief architect, Freedom Dumalo, recently spoke with the CloudZero team about how they were able to successfully reduce cloud costs by $2.4M in just a few months.

Why Cloud Cost Optimization Is Ready To Shift Left (Just Like Security Did)

Security has shifted left and become an essential part of the SDLC. Here's why the same thing is happening with cloud cost optimization.

How I Built a Machine Learning Pipeline on AWS for Under $7 a Day

Machine learning has a reputation for having enormous compute costs associated with it.  However, with a top down cost approach, it’s possible to build machine learning based products with strong margins.

10 Great Reads and Listens If You Want to Learn About Cloud Cost

Read our list of the top ten places to find out the state of cost management of the cloud computing industry.

Simple AWS Serverless Patterns for Building Cost Effective and High Performing Applications

The popularity of services like AWS Lambda is on the rise, but to fulfill the promise of cost efficiency and high performance, you need to designed your applications for serverless infrastructure. Here are three AWS serverless patterns you can use. 

Cloud Spend Optimization: 5 Questions You Must Answer

Cloud spend optimization can be challenging if you don’t have sufficient visibility into what’s going on inside your cloud. Here’s what to ask yourself.

AWS BiIl Too High? Here Are 5 AWS Cost Savings Opportunities

Is your AWS bill too high? Use these AWS cost optimization tools and strategies to fix your AWS cost mistakes once and for all.

Serverless is Not a Bubble; It’s a Spectrum

CloudZero views Serverless as a Spectrum, where a company falls on the spectrum depends on where they have come from and where they are going. Large organizations with lots of legacy technology may take longer to optimize for serverless than a small, lean startup getting to market quickly.

Predicting The Next Big Wave of DevOps Cultural Transformation

CloudZero weighs in on the DevOps Cultural debate. What is the level of DevOps adoption by the mainstream? Read the article to get our take on the issue.

The AWS re:Invent 2018 Expo Hall Survival Guide: 5 Questions you should ask every Vendor

For re:Invent and other cloud focused conferences I’ve come up with the following 5 questions that I think everyone should ask every vendor they speak with.