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Problem description A tagging system enables companies to improve cloud governance, increase visibility and control over cloud infrastructure. Tags help manage, identify, organize, filter and

Problem description AWS security groups are aimed to filter the ingress/engress traffic to an EC2 instance. Security best practices require to ensure that AWS security

Problem description AWS resources are available for users, who sign in to your company AWS account through the AWS Management Console. Therefore unauthorized activity within

Problem description Unauthorized access to internal IT environments doesn’t meet company security standards. Terminating access for inactive users is aimed to reduce the risk of uncontrolled

Effective cloud cost management is a key priority for companies across all industries. It enables businesses to gain clear understanding, transparency and optimization of all

In one of our previous articles we described the quickest way to save on Amazon S3. Let’s discover how to reduce costs on Alibaba Cloud

Business environments continue to modernize to account for today’s remote work needs. More businesses have virtual or remote teams in place, and it’s leading to

Efficient cost management and FinOps have become one of the top priorities for public cloud customers across all industries. One of the main reasons for

From the very beginning of OptScale development as a product, Hystax is looking for the best and the most convenient ways of FinOps principles adoption

Problem description AWS volume snapshots, also known as EBS snapshots, are widely used to backup and restore data on Amazon EC2, being how important it

Problem statement: Elastic IPs are free of charge only in certain cases Let’s begin this article by identifying two types of IP addresses that can

What are tags and how can you manage them? Tags help you manage your resources, virtual machines or images and categorize your resources by owner,

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

Problem description: ‘Stopped’ and ‘deallocated’ states of an inactive VM In clouds your VMs are temporarily leasing a part of the compute power of the

Problem description: storage classes in Amazon S3 Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) provides a convenient and affordable opportunity to store your data as objects in

Problem description: Incomplete multipart uploads Amazon S3 is a great storage to hold your data – it’s simple, performant and cheap enough. It also has

How to estimate lift-and-shift costs and project Day-2 cloud expenses Clouds are growing very fast with companies creating new resources and migrating existing workloads from