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Your guide to Cloud Cost Allocation
Get a comprehensive understanding of your organisation's cloud spend.
Volkswagen
Nordcloud co-created Volkswagen's cloud cost control solutions.
Automate infrastructure on AWS – Free Interactive Guide
Do you struggle keeping up with manual provisioning, security and governance tasks, while trying to drive innovation in cloud?
Cloud Core #5 – Making cloud costs make sense
Nordcloud's tech community shares stories and knowledge about tech, business, HR, marketing and more with the world.
Designing Proactive Monitoring Patterns of Costs and Usages using AWS Budgets
In one of our previous posts, we spoke about how AWS Cost Explorer helps us to explore and analyze spending...
Monolithic or Microservices? 4 Tips to get Things Moving
Dealing with cloud infrastructure is somewhat trivial (well not really in some cases but it should be with properly built...
Certified FinOps Training:
Another Way Nordcloud is Leading the Pack
Nordcloud has become one of Europe’s few certified FinOps training providers.
IBM Multicloud gets boost from IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management
Combine IBM Multicloud cloud cost management and IBM Turbonomic to only pay for what you need.
Which golden image solution is best for you?
There are a range of solutions for creating, hardening and maintaining golden images across multiple platforms.
Manufacturers – Don’t just store data, make money from it
Why leave data sitting in an old, on-prem warehouse that’s generating costs and performing poorly?
How to manage virtual machine security at scale
Public cloud allows companies the agility to scale their environments and VMs.
Nordcloud Sharpens Focus on FSI
At Nordcloud, we’re doubling down on FSI. But what does that really mean?
9 common pitfalls of building an image lifecycle management solution in-house
Building an image lifecycle management solution in-house is tough.
5 quick-win cloud cost optimisation opportunities
FinOps: it’s what you’re aiming for, and you’re doing your darndest to make it happen.
How you can save up to 34% of your AWS Lambda costs?
AWS announced new Lambda runtime based on ARM architecture – Graviton2.
5 ways to streamline cloud operations and documentation
IBM Multicloud Accelerator helps you optimise cloud operations in a few clicks. It’s easy to get started and easy to use.
Identify and reduce your cloud carbon footprint
IBM Multicloud helps to reduce your environmental impact and optimise cloud usage, by providing cloud carbon footprint estimation
Strategic Ways to Cut Cloud Spend
Hyperscaler tools are a common starting point when you’re looking to optimise cloud costs.
How cost optimisation and FinOps are different
These are common problems when you think of cost optimisation and FinOps as being synonymous.
How to Reduce Unnecessary Tech Spend
Starter for 10: Meet Max Guhl, Nordcloud’s Global FinOps Advisory Lead
FinOps is a continuous process that needs to be established and optimised.
FinOps 102: Who does what? And where to start?
Without buy-in from your engineers and administrators, you’re not going to make FinOps a reality anyway. If you follow a pure top-down approach, you risk creating a sort of shadow IT.
FinOps 101: Can you? Should you?
We consider FinOps to be more than just a function or a service – it’s a culture change.
Why your FinOps is only limping along?
Is your FinOps behind the curve? This guide looks at how to fix FinOps issues and escape the slow lane!