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How to manage and monitor Kubernetes costs in OptScale

Combining Kubernetes with OptScale gives organizations a powerful solution for managing containerized applications while optimizing costs and resource usage. Kubernetes ensures efficient and automated application management, while OptScale offers the visibility and tools needed to manage and reduce cloud expenses effectively. This synergy helps organizations achieve operational efficiency, cost savings, and better resource management in cloud-native environments.

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How to use anomaly detection policies in OptScale

Anomaly detection in cloud technology is essential to ensuring cloud services’ security, reliability, and performance. OptScale keeps up with the times. The OptScale team implemented the anomaly detection algorithms in the solution. This feature is an integral part of a broader cloud security and management strategy, helping our clients preemptively address potential issues before they cause significant damage or disruption.

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How to categorize expenses using OptScale

In this how-to, you will learn how OptScale allows various resources to be pooled and managed across vast global infrastructures. Pools typically refer to a grouping of shared resources available by multiple clients or tasks within a cloud environment. These resources include computing power (CPU), storage, memory, or network bandwidth. Using the Pools feature in OptScale, you can maximize efficiency and flexibility in resource allocation, ultimately enhancing scalability and cost-effectiveness.

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How to set budgets and quotas using OptScale

Budgets and quotas are two crucial concepts to consider when managing cloud storage. Managing budgets and quotas using OptScale will provide a comprehensive approach to cloud storage management. By leveraging this tool, organizations can keep cloud storage costs under control while maximizing the efficiency and availability of their cloud resources.

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How to set Power Schedules using OptScale

Cloud power scheduling is a crucial aspect of cloud computing management. It focuses on optimizing the use of computational resources to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and minimize energy consumption. Effective power scheduling in cloud computing reduces operational costs and contributes to environmental sustainability by minimizing data centers’ carbon footprint. This feature is implemented into OptScale.

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How to get rid of unused volumes and snapshots using OptScale

Managing unused storage volumes is an essential aspect of cloud resource management that can help organizations optimize costs and efficiency. OptScale supports various cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, GCP, and Nebius. The platform offers tools for identifying unused volumes and obsolete snapshots and gives recommendations for resources not being utilized effectively. These unused or ‘orphaned’ volumes can linger in your account without serving any operational purpose, leading to unnecessary costs.

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How to use recommendation cards in OptScale

Recommendation cards are user interface elements, providing personalized suggestions to users based on their behavior, preferences, or other relevant data. These cards are commonly seen in various digital environments, such as e-commerce platforms, streaming services, and content websites. The purpose of recommendation cards is to enhance user experience, increase engagement, and drive conversion rates by suggesting products, services, or content that users will likely find appealing.

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How to organize access to shared resources using OptScale

Shared resources are designed to be secure, reliable, and cost-effective, making them suitable for businesses of all sizes and industries. In Amazon Web Services (AWS), ‘shared resources’ refer to AWS infrastructure, services, or features multiple customers utilize. OptScale provides capabilities to improve the management and maintenance of AWS for scalability, security, and efficiency. This opportunity helps in efficient resource utilization and prevents conflicts in resource usage among different teams.

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How to find duplicate objects in AWS S3

In Amazon S3, duplicate objects might occur for various reasons, such as accidental uploads, numerous uploads of the same file, or synchronization processes. It’s important to note that duplicate objects can increase storage costs since each object is billed separately based on size and storage duration. Therefore, it is recommended that duplicate objects be managed efficiently by avoiding them through proper naming conventions or using versioning when necessary.

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How to use OptScale to optimize RI/SP usage for ML/AI teams

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects often leverage cloud technologies due to their scalability, accessibility, and ease of deployment. Integrating ML/AI projects with AWS Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) can benefit from AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans by optimizing cost savings, resource utilization, and performance for various use cases ranging from model training and inference to real-time data processing and big data analytics.

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6 ways to use GCP for free

The use of cloud services opens up enormous opportunities for IT companies. It significantly lowers the barrier to entry for organizations that would otherwise never

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MS Azure tagging best practices

Assigning tags to MS Azure resources is essential to creating a well-organized and transparent taxonomy in your cloud and achieving significant cloud cost optimization. When

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