How is it October already?!
If time is flying by for you as quickly as it is for us, you may have missed some of September’s cloud cost news headlines:
- FinOps X Europe is drawing closer. Get your tickets now!
- Microsoft published some documentation updates that Azure users might want to check out.
- TechRadar reported on the problem of increasing costs for the vast majority of companies operating in the cloud.
Read on for details!
Top Cloud Cost News From September 2024
The FinOps Foundation is preparing for its next big get-together
If you’re interested in attending the FinOps X conference in Europe this year and you haven’t yet reserved your tickets, now is the time to do so. The conference will be a four day event in Barcelona, from November 11–14.
The countdown to FinOps X Europe is on, and you can watch the days tick down on this official event page. The prospect of heading to Spain for the chance to learn the latest, greatest FinOps practices is exciting enough on its own—but why not book a few extra days at the end to just relax and enjoy the sights?
Some of the topics you can look forward to learning about include FinOps for running AI in the cloud, cloud sustainability, and applying FinOps concepts in a number of scenarios such as within SaaS, Hybrid, and On-premise setups.
Microsoft released a list of updates for its cost management platform
Azure users, this one’s for you:
Microsoft’s Cost Management tool received several updates in August, and Microsoft released the documentation to go along with them in September.
Below are just a few documentation changes and other updates released last month that you might have missed:
These probably aren’t life-changing updates for your business, but every little bit of optimization helps! And we will always encourage you to look through the docs of any cloud service providers or tools you use to make sure you’re getting the most bang for your buck. Sometimes just tweaking a few things can help you save money.
A TechRadar report confirmed what your wallet already knew — growing cloud costs are a problem
If your monthly cloud bill is a source of anxiety, you’re not alone. Gartner — as reported by TechRadar — says most organizations are blowing past their budgets each month when it comes to cloud costs, and cloud storage in particular.
If the answer were as simple as “spend less,” everyone would be doing it and finance departments everywhere would be rejoicing. Realistically, however, businesses today are faced with the prospect of keeping — and even ramping up — their cloud services in order to stay competitive, while somehow still shouldering the weight of ever-increasing prices.
TechRadar says (and we agree!) that the best way to combat this problem is to look for a cloud cost management solution that can aggregate all your cloud costs into one place and provide total transparency into where each dollar goes. Only with complete visibility into your cloud costs can you optimize your spend and prevent — or at least lessen — that feeling of monthly sticker shock.
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Gone are the days of poring over each bill from your individual cloud providers and trying to figure out why your spend has doubled over the past year. With CloudZero, you can see how much every single resource, project, feature, and customer costs your business, and how those trends change over time. That kind of transparency is the key to lowering your costs and keeping them under control for good.
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