Blogs
How Tagging Your Resources Can Help You Save Money on AWS
Tagging your resources on AWS is a topic that isn’t given the attention it deserves. Although it is something that might not seem like the most direct means of saving money on AWS, it helps generate the visibility necessary to effectively identify and manage resources...
Gamify Your Cloud Optimization Experience with CloudScore
Question: Is There a Way for Users to Accurately Measure the Effectiveness of Their Cloud Optimization Efforts? The challenge of cloud cost optimization on AWS is definitely not one that is uncomplicated or easily addressed. The complex diversity of optimization...
Reduce Your AWS Cloud Costs by Up to 50% with Reserved Instances
Of all the means available to AWS users who are looking to reduce their cloud spending, there is one that definitely ranks amongst the most effective - Reserved Instances. What are AWS Reserved Instances? A Reserved Instance is a reservation of resources and capacity...
How to Enable AWS Billing
For AWS users who are beginning to shift their focus towards optimizing their costs on AWS, there’s one step that’s absolutely essential for them to take to get started in their optimization journeys - Enabling AWS Billing. Enabling AWS Billing is the only means for...
Installation of an ESXi pfSense Server with a Dedicated IP
pfSense is an open source firewall/router based on FreeBSD. It can however do much more than that, and assume the role of DNS, VPN, DHCP and more. Installing an ESXi pfSense here is used primarily as a IPSec VPN endpoint, but at the same time it will be used as a...
Avoid Unncessary Expenses on AWS with Anomaly Detection
The complexity of AWS, unfortunately, results in the inability for most users to accurately monitor and track their AWS cloud costs. The lack of an effective cloud cost monitoring system open leads to users incurring increments in their costs with no means to identify...