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Category Company Update
Francois and I are pleased to announce that we’ve accepted the offer to join TinySeed’s Accelerator Program for Spring 2021!
2021 marks the start of year three working full-time on CloudForecast for Francois and I! It’s been quite a journey and uphill battle to get to where we are at...
We’re ending the month of March with one new feature and and existing feature improvement:
Happy belated New Years from CloudForecast!! We hope the start of 2020 has been going well for you all. We’re coming in hot with three new features available to you...
We have four new features available today on CloudForecast. Here is a quick
rundown of everything new and shiny.
Investing in AWS reserved instances is a great way to help you reduce your monthly AWS cost. The potential savings can be up to 75% compared to on-demand pricing if...
We’re constantly looking for ways to help deliver additional value that saves you time and money on Amazon Web Services.
Here at CloudForecast, we’re constantly gathering product feedback from our customers. We love learning about their problems around AWS cost and figure out ways to build new AWS cost optimization...
With a new year, it’s always important to take the time to reflect but also look
forward to a new year.
This was previously featured on Hacker Noon and written by Davis Baer. Davis Baer is the Co-founder of oneupapp.io 💻 & Host of the Hacker Noon Founder Interview series 💬....
One word that sums up our journey launching CloudForecast is “uncomfortable”. A lot of our time was spent learning new things that stretched us into “uncomfortable” territory the past 9...
Category Tutorials
In a previous blog post, we described our journey to launch CloudForecast and some of the questions every startup face. In this post, we will answer the question “What’s the...
Category Serverless
In a previous blog post, we described our journey to launch CloudForecast and some of the questions every startup face. In this post, we will answer the question “What’s the...
Category Lambda
In a previous blog post, we described our journey to launch CloudForecast and some of the questions every startup face. In this post, we will answer the question “What’s the...
Category Interview
This was previously featured on Hacker Noon and written by Davis Baer. Davis Baer is the Co-founder of oneupapp.io 💻 & Host of the Hacker Noon Founder Interview series 💬....
Category Advice
Running into issues with using Athena to convert a CSV file to Parquet or have a random AWS question? We would love to help if we can, for free. Check...
It’s not uncommon for folks that are newer to Serverless and AWS Lambda to provision their functions for what they think they will need. In fact, I would venture to...
We had the opportunity to chat with Sid, the CEO of GitLab, on what it takes to offer a self-hosted version of your software a few weeks ago. GitLab is...
The CloudForecast team recently had a chance to do a “Pick Your Brain” session with the CEO of GitLab, Sid Sijbrandij. The range of topics included, keys to marketing to...
Category AWS Tips
Following up on my last blog post (Using Parquet on Athena to Save Money on AWS), I wanted to share another thought about AWS Athena, specifically how the S3 bucket...
To show you how you can optimize your AWS Athena query and save money, we will use the ‘2018 Flight On-Time Performance’ dataset from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (bts.gov)....
There are a lot of factors to consider when thinking about building your applications and services inside of Amazon Web Services. Often times there is a learning curve that individuals...
Category Product Update
2021 marks the start of year three working full-time on CloudForecast for Francois and I! It’s been quite a journey and uphill battle to get to where we are at...
We’re ending the month of March with one new feature and and existing feature improvement:
Happy belated New Years from CloudForecast!! We hope the start of 2020 has been going well for you all. We’re coming in hot with three new features available to you...
We have four new features available today on CloudForecast. Here is a quick
rundown of everything new and shiny.
Investing in AWS reserved instances is a great way to help you reduce your monthly AWS cost. The potential savings can be up to 75% compared to on-demand pricing if...
We’re constantly looking for ways to help deliver additional value that saves you time and money on Amazon Web Services.
Here at CloudForecast, we’re constantly gathering product feedback from our customers. We love learning about their problems around AWS cost and figure out ways to build new AWS cost optimization...
Category Recommendations
What is a real-time data pipeline?
There is nothing I love more than saving money (except maybe delicious food). And I don’t know too many people who don’t love saving money, not to mention making the...
Event-Driven Architecture An event-driven architecture is one in which a system reacts to events that are emitted by other systems. The definition of an event can vary based on the...
Heading to the AWS Summit in Chicago on May 30th and need recommendations on things to eat, see or drink near McCormick Place?
Category AWS
Anyone that reviews their credit card bill once a year knows how easy it is to accrue unused subscriptions when you don’t review your statement regularly. Many developers are guilty...
The rise of cloud computing has simplified life for developers, but the economics of cloud computing can be complex. While C-level executives could wrap their heads around physical data centers,...
Use AWS T3 Instances to Cut Down On Your EC2 Cost Amazon AWS is a significant expense for many software companies. While there are many ways to save money, developers...
Amazon Web Services may be the ultimate DevOps solution, but it comes at a (sometimes surprising) cost. At a time when budgets are under unprecedented stress, it’s never been more...
Many organizations use a combination of Reserved Instances, On-Demand Instances, SavingsPlans and Spot Instances to support their applications and manage their costs. While Spot Instances are too unpredictable for most...
Cost awareness is becoming an increasingly important part of engineering culture. With tighter corporate budgets, especially following the COVID-19 outbreak, many organizations are putting AWS resources under a microscope. The...
Modern CFOs are intimately involved with IT given the digitization of just about everything. As a growing number of companies transition to the cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is quickly...
How AWS Cost Allocation Tags Can Reduce Your AWS Cost
Running into issues with using Athena to convert a CSV file to Parquet or have a random AWS question? We would love to help if we can, for free. Check...
What is a real-time data pipeline?
There is nothing I love more than saving money (except maybe delicious food). And I don’t know too many people who don’t love saving money, not to mention making the...
Event-Driven Architecture An event-driven architecture is one in which a system reacts to events that are emitted by other systems. The definition of an event can vary based on the...
What is faast.js? Faast.js is an open source project that streamlines invoking serverless functions like AWS Lambda. It allows you to invoke your serverless functions as if they were regular...
Heading to the AWS Summit in Chicago on May 30th and need recommendations on things to eat, see or drink near McCormick Place?
Category Reccomendations
What is faast.js? Faast.js is an open source project that streamlines invoking serverless functions like AWS Lambda. It allows you to invoke your serverless functions as if they were regular...
Category Beginners
There is nothing I love more than saving money (except maybe delicious food). And I don’t know too many people who don’t love saving money, not to mention making the...
Category Guide
Amazon Web Services DynamoDB, a NoSQL database service, is excellent for applications that require low-latency data access, such as web, mobile, IoT, and gaming apps. It improves the durability of...
Amazon Web Services may be the ultimate DevOps solution, but it comes at a (sometimes surprising) cost. At a time when budgets are under unprecedented stress, it’s never been more...
While it’s easy to quickly move data around in the cloud, each AWS data transfer costs money and these hidden fees and quickly add up over time if you’re not...
Category Best Practices
AWS Tags Best Practices and AWS Tagging Strategies - Part 1 Introduction
While it’s easy to quickly move data around in the cloud, each AWS data transfer costs money and these hidden fees and quickly add up over time if you’re not...
Category Guides
The popularity of Kubernetes is constantly increasing, with more and more companies moving their workload to this way of orchestration. Some organizations exclusively develop new applications on Kubernetes, taking advantage...
AWS Tags Best Practices and AWS Tagging Strategies - Part 1 Introduction
Category new features
Here is a summary of all the new features we’ve released in 2021. As always, thank you all so much for the feedback. Francois and I are listening, and we...
CloudForecast New Features TL;DR
EC2 Spot Instances ROI Report
AWS Cost Optimization Report aka ZeroWaste
Single Sign On support
New Knowledgebase
Category cost optimization
Amazon Web Services DynamoDB, a NoSQL database service, is excellent for applications that require low-latency data access, such as web, mobile, IoT, and gaming apps. It improves the durability of...
Imagine that you have a contract to move an auto repair shop’s servers on to AWS. They have a public web server, a private SQL server, and a private Node.js...
AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a container orchestration platform that allows clients to run and manage Docker containers in the AWS cloud.
CloudFront is AWS own CDN (Content Delivery Network). CDNs are primarily used for caching, and many customers also use AWS CloudFront CDN as a security layer, or use it to...
AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is Amazon’s managed big data platform which allows clients who need to process gigabytes or petabytes of data to create EC2 instances running the Hadoop File...
Amazon Simple Storage Service (referred to as AWS S3) is AWS’s cloud-based file storage platform. Amazon S3 is one of Amazon’s most widely used services, but it’s also one of...
Amazon Web Services makes getting your data into AWS RDS Relational Database Service relatively easy. Import costs are free on RDS, and you can store up to 100 terabytes across...
Category guide
Containerization has become integral to businesses aspiring to greater agility, accelerated innovation, and generally maintaining competitiveness. As more and more enterprises continue to use containerization, the question of which containers...
Historically, companies have been restricted to manual solutions for maintaining IT infrastructure—but Infrastructure as Code (IaC) offers a different solution.
Monitoring is essential to a reliable system. It helps keep your services consistent and available by preemptively alerting you to important issues. In legacy (non-Kubernetes) systems, monitoring is simple. You...
Kubernetes has solved many challenges, like speed, scalability, and resilience, but it’s also introduced a new set of difficulties when it comes to monitoring infrastructure. Application monitoring is already daunting...
Imagine that you have a contract to move an auto repair shop’s servers on to AWS. They have a public web server, a private SQL server, and a private Node.js...
AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a container orchestration platform that allows clients to run and manage Docker containers in the AWS cloud.
CloudFront is AWS own CDN (Content Delivery Network). CDNs are primarily used for caching, and many customers also use AWS CloudFront CDN as a security layer, or use it to...
AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is Amazon’s managed big data platform which allows clients who need to process gigabytes or petabytes of data to create EC2 instances running the Hadoop File...
Amazon Simple Storage Service (referred to as AWS S3) is AWS’s cloud-based file storage platform. Amazon S3 is one of Amazon’s most widely used services, but it’s also one of...
Amazon Web Services makes getting your data into AWS RDS Relational Database Service relatively easy. Import costs are free on RDS, and you can store up to 100 terabytes across...
Category best practices
Amazon Web Services DynamoDB, a NoSQL database service, is excellent for applications that require low-latency data access, such as web, mobile, IoT, and gaming apps. It improves the durability of...
Containerization has become integral to businesses aspiring to greater agility, accelerated innovation, and generally maintaining competitiveness. As more and more enterprises continue to use containerization, the question of which containers...
Kubernetes has solved many challenges, like speed, scalability, and resilience, but it’s also introduced a new set of difficulties when it comes to monitoring infrastructure. Application monitoring is already daunting...
Imagine that you have a contract to move an auto repair shop’s servers on to AWS. They have a public web server, a private SQL server, and a private Node.js...
AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a container orchestration platform that allows clients to run and manage Docker containers in the AWS cloud.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (referred to as AWS S3) is AWS’s cloud-based file storage platform. Amazon S3 is one of Amazon’s most widely used services, but it’s also one of...
Amazon Web Services makes getting your data into AWS RDS Relational Database Service relatively easy. Import costs are free on RDS, and you can store up to 100 terabytes across...
Category features
Ensuring your AWS resources are being tagged properly is a vital part of an organization’s AWS cost monitoring and optimization processes. With AWS tags in place, organization’s can easily map...
Category aws best practices
CloudFront is AWS own CDN (Content Delivery Network). CDNs are primarily used for caching, and many customers also use AWS CloudFront CDN as a security layer, or use it to...
Category announcement
For the 2nd year in a row, CloudForecast donated a portion of our December 2021 revenues to four 501(c)(3) non-profits for Giving Tuesday.
Here is a summary of all the new features we’ve released in 2021. As always, thank you all so much for the feedback. Francois and I are listening, and we...
Category case study
Michael estimates a 15x ROI using CloudForecast this past year, from eliminating the costs for unnecessary cloud usage and detecting cost anomalies right away.
“The benefit 605 receives by not employing a cloud accountant on staff to go through this every day more than pays for the CloudForecast service cost.” - Jared Williams, Director...
Category Update
Francois and I are pleased to announce that we’ve accepted the offer to join TinySeed’s Accelerator Program for Spring 2021!
Category Announcements
Francois and I are pleased to announce that we’ve accepted the offer to join TinySeed’s Accelerator Program for Spring 2021!
Category kubernetes
Monitoring is essential to a reliable system. It helps keep your services consistent and available by preemptively alerting you to important issues. In legacy (non-Kubernetes) systems, monitoring is simple. You...
Kubernetes has solved many challenges, like speed, scalability, and resilience, but it’s also introduced a new set of difficulties when it comes to monitoring infrastructure. Application monitoring is already daunting...
Category testimonial
Michael estimates a 15x ROI using CloudForecast this past year, from eliminating the costs for unnecessary cloud usage and detecting cost anomalies right away.
Category tutorial
Containerization has become integral to businesses aspiring to greater agility, accelerated innovation, and generally maintaining competitiveness. As more and more enterprises continue to use containerization, the question of which containers...
Historically, companies have been restricted to manual solutions for maintaining IT infrastructure—but Infrastructure as Code (IaC) offers a different solution.
Category guides
If you’re at AWS re:Invent and reading this, you’re probably done with eating at typical options of casino buffet and other chain restaurant options off the strip. After day 2...
With over 60,000+ attendees, 50 tracks, and over 1,200 sessions to weed through at AWS re:Invent, it can be a bit overwhelming to figure out what sessions to attend.
Category Guide
Hello! My name is Hiroko Nishimura, and I’m an AWS Community Hero (2020~), Technical Writer, and Technical Instructor. I teach “Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers” courses at LinkedIn Learning, and...
Category tips
Hello! My name is Hiroko Nishimura, and I’m an AWS Community Hero (2020~), Technical Writer, and Technical Instructor. I teach “Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers” courses at LinkedIn Learning, and...
Category re:Invent
If you’re at AWS re:Invent and reading this, you’re probably done with eating at typical options of casino buffet and other chain restaurant options off the strip. After day 2...
Category interview
Hello, all! This is Hiroko Nishimura, an AWS Community Hero, founder of AWS Newbies, and Technical Instructor at LinkedIn Learning teaching “Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers” series! While re:Invent 2021...
Hello, all! This is Hiroko Nishimura, an AWS Community Hero, founder of AWS Newbies, and Technical Instructor at LinkedIn Learning teaching “Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers” series! While AWS re:Invent...
Category aws heroes
Hello, all! This is Hiroko Nishimura, an AWS Community Hero, founder of AWS Newbies, and Technical Instructor at LinkedIn Learning teaching “Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers” series! While re:Invent 2021...
Hello, all! This is Hiroko Nishimura, an AWS Community Hero, founder of AWS Newbies, and Technical Instructor at LinkedIn Learning teaching “Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers” series! While AWS re:Invent...
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