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The first step to saving on AWS? Find your underutilized EC2 instances

J.R. Storment — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:01:35 +0000

Identifying underutilized or unused EC2 instances is one of the quickest ways to shrink your AWS bill. By downsizing or turning off instances that have been forgotten or overlooked, you’ll ensure that your company isn’t paying any more for AWS than it should be. Fortunately, it’s easy spot these wasted EC2 resources using the EC2 [...]

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Video: AWS cost management using tags and Cloudability

Aaron Kaffen — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:42:48 +0000

Do you know where all of your company’s AWS costs are coming from? With AWS tags and Cloudability, you can quickly split out your AWS spending by cost centers like department, product or client. In this video, our Head of Product, Toban Zolman, shows you how to: - Segment and manage your AWS spending using [...]

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Cloud Vendor Maturity – Or How Safe is my Stuff?

Ben Kepes — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:58:31 +0000

A few years ago the bookmarking site Ma.gnolia had the biggest disaster imaginable – their system crashed and all user data was permanently lost. Ma.gnolia as a service had got a fair bit of attention and use, it was one of a bunch of different services that were going down the Digg path and managed [...]

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Webinar: Managing your AWS spending using tags and Cloudability

Aaron Kaffen — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:07:14 +0000

Is your team still using giant spreadsheets to segment and report AWS spending for your finance and management teams? See how Cloudability’s AWS Cost Analytics tool lets you create detailed AWS spending reports in just minutes using detailed billing data and tags from across all of your AWS accounts. Sign up now for this free, [...]

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Cloud Washing and Vendor FUD – Confusing Customers into Ignorance

Ben Kepes — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:17:49 +0000

For those who don’t spend any real time in the enterprise IT world, FUD is something you might have (luckily) not been aware of. It stands, for those who didn’t know, for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt and is the awful trait of legacy vendors who, panicking about some technology that could disrupt their cozy little [...]

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Cloudability wins “Startup of the Year” at TAO’s Oregon Technology Awards

Mat Ellis — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:58:13 +0000

We’re thrilled to announce that Cloudability was selected last night as “Startup of the Year” at the 2013 Oregon Technology Awards, hosted by the Technology Association of Oregon at the Portland Art Museum. We want to thank everyone at the TAO as well as all of our supporters around Oregon and the world. While it’s always [...]

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How to show your AWS spending by Tag

J.R. Storment — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:06:14 +0000

AWS tags are an easy way to segment and allocate your AWS spending to different department, projects, products or costs centers. But, until now, most companies have had to use giant spreadsheets to make use of AWS tags. With Cloduability’s AWS Cost Analytics, you can use Amazon tags to split out AWS spending any way [...]

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Cloud Education – People Don’t Know What They Don’t Know

Ben Kepes — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:45:01 +0000

As we saw in my last post – cloud changes things. But busy people like you who spend their day working in a business don’t have time to go trawling the web to find all the different pieces of information they’d need to get started. What you really need is something like a “cloud 101” – [...]

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Introducing AWS Cost Analytics powered by AWS Detailed Billing files

Toban Zolman — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:00:04 +0000

Today Cloudability is launching our newest product: AWS Cost Analytics. When Cloudability introduced our EC2 Usage Analytics tool at the end of last year, it was a watershed moment for many of our users. For the first time, they had the tools they needed to really make sense of instance-level EC2 usage trends. Since then, [...]

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Cloudability’s New Dashboard & Daily Email: Better KPI’s For Better Cloud Cost Tracking

Toban Zolman — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:33:17 +0000

Cloudability’s dashboard and email are daily touchpoint for thousands of our users. It provides an at-a-glance view of what you’ve spent so far in the month, what you’re estimated to spend and whether it’s more or less than last month. But, as cloud users have gotten more sophisticated, we’ve gotten consistent requests to go deeper [...]

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