AWS has just made a new open-source tool called Karpenter generally available. I will dig into how it works and will be unavoidably comparing it with what we have built at CAST AI. What exactly is Karpenter, how does its autoscaling mechanism work, and should you use it? Karpenter is…

Already feeling the vibe of this year’s festive season? Here’s some fresh cloud technology news to keep you on the right track. This series brings you up to speed with the latest releases, acquisitions, research, and hidden gems in the world of cloud computing — the stuff actually worth reading. …

Anyone who has ever worked with manual cost management tools knows how time-consuming they can be. Reaching an optimized state can take months without any guarantee of an ongoing optimized state. With CAST AI, this is no longer the case. Our platform now offers Instant Rebalancing — a feature that…

The pay-per-use model of the public cloud seemed too good to be true. And you probably quickly caught onto its catch: analyzing and predicting your cloud costs is like driving blindfolded hoping that the street traffic would stay the same. A solid cloud cost management strategy and tooling solves this…

As the global economy flounders, investors rush to safer equities and VCs are no longer amused by cash-burning startups. We’re seeing deep changes in investor sentiment impacting the tech industry right now. A lot of tech businesses saw massive user base increases during the pandemic. Now that the pandemic is…

The cloud makes a big budget item for every modern organization in the post-pandemic world. But sometimes, its costs become too big for comfort. A billion-dollar private software company told Andreessen Horowitz that its public cloud spend made up 81% of the total cost of revenue (COR). While the example…

If you’re considering moving to the public cloud or optimizing the choice for your next project, picking between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform can be a daunting task. They all offer flexible compute, storage, and networking combined with everything engineers love about the cloud: self-service, instant provisioning, and autoscaling. …

AWS Glue is a data integration service that prepares data for analytics, application development, and machine learning through what is known as an exact, transform, and load (ETL) process. As a cloud service that is fully serverless, AWS Glue makes it easy to organize big data, collect it into data…

Microsoft Azure is a popular cloud provider offering numerous services to enterprises, including general networking, computing (virtual machine access), analytics, storage options, and other systems. If you’re debating a transition to Azure, there are a few key details you’ll want to consider, such as what’s included in the subscription service…