Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘23 Two quotes from the Amazon and Microsoft earnings call really stood out to me this week. Similar to what we shared last quarter, we continue to see the diminishing impact of cost optimizations. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up.

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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 152

CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. Billing events and unit metrics The variable cost model of cloud platforms has forever changed how compute resources are bought and paid for and consumed.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) SaaS Cloud 130

CloudGeometry

APRIL 25, 2022

7 Cloud Cost Optimization Resource leverage (in the form of reusable software) is at the heart of the SaaS model. FinOps is a new discipline that defines best practices for closing gaps between feature implementation and the cost of services. They build on each other. Enterprise customers understand perfection is unattainable.

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