Posts from Heera Ravindran
How to Integrate GCP Cost Alerts with Microsoft Teams
Google Cloud Platform offers a wide range of computing solutions to simplify your IT operations. Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform where all team activities come together. Integrating GCP with Teams allows you to manage your cloud resources easily within your workspace. Teams can monitor your cloud usage, track costs, and receive real-time alerts from […]
How to Integrate AWS Cost Alerts with Microsoft Teams
Integrating with Microsoft Teams Budget overruns and missed cost alerts can significantly reduce the returns on your cloud investments. To ensure every dollar spent delivers value, it is always essential to keep a close watch on your cloud resources. Relying solely on email notifications for cost alerts can delay prompt actions as they often go […]
Integrate AWS Cost Alerts with Slack in 3 Simple Steps
Managing cloud costs is one of the biggest challenges for organizations, given the dynamic nature of the cloud resources. Without proper monitoring, businesses risk overspending, missing budget targets, or failing to optimize their cloud resources. That’s why integrating AWS cost alerts with Slack can be a game-changer. This guide will demonstrate how to track cloud […]
10 Azure VM Cost Optimization Best Practices for 2025
What is Azure Virtual Machine? Azure Virtual Machines are scalable computing resources that Microsoft Azure provides on-demand. Think of them as computers in the cloud that you can configure and use based on your needs. Understanding how they work is the first step to optimizing costs. Azure VMs offer flexible computing solutions but without proper […]
Azure SQL Database: Pricing Tiers & Deployment Models
When your IT team is already stretched thin, routine database management tasks like patching, updates, and backups can become costly. Risks like data breaches, downtime, and escalating costs can further disrupt operations and drain your resources. Hence it is important to have a secure and organized database system to centralize and protect your data. Azure […]
Azure Cost Analysis: Simple Way to track you Cloud Cost
Azure Cost Analysis is a tool that helps organizations get insights into your Azure usage costs. It helps businesses make informed decisions, track budgets, allocate expenses, and save costs. In this article let’s explore Azure Cost Analysis, its features, usage steps, and common challenges. We’ll also look at how third-party tools like Economize can improve […]
What is Azure Autoscaling and How Does It Work?
What is Autoscaling? Autoscaling is a technique used to automatically adjust the number of active resources in the cloud. You can autoscale resources such as virtual machines, servers, and containers based on your current demand and workloads. It helps you to tackle peak demand by provisioning additional resources and then scaling down during low-demand periods […]
10 Azure Cost Optimization Best Practices to Save in 2025
The Importance of Cloud Cost Optimization When businesses first move to the cloud, they prioritize performance, reliability, and security. However, as your cloud usage grows, your cloud bills can grow quickly due to the ease of provisioning and the “always-on” nature of services. Over time, these unchecked expenses can drain resources that could be better […]
What is Azure Backup Costs: A Simple Guide
Understanding Azure Backup Azure Backup service is a reliable backup and recovery solution for both your on-premise and Azure resources. It protects your critical data and prevents data loss from accidental deletions, ransomware attacks, corruption, or hardware failures. Azure Backup allows users to store backup copies for both short-term (days or weeks) and long-term retention […]
7 Best Practices for Azure Monitor Alerts
What is Azure Monitor? Azure Monitor is a cloud monitoring tool that can track, collect, and analyze your data from both cloud-based and on-premise environments. It provides a unified platform to monitor your performance, application availability, and infrastructure. Azure Monitor collects telemetry data from sources such as Azure services, virtual machines, databases, containers, and even […]
A Quick Guide to Set up Azure Cost Notifications in Slack
Why Integrate Azure with Slack? Slack is a messaging tool that keeps your project workflows, team collaborations, and communications in one place. It integrates your project files, meeting schedules, and team conversations and is organized and easily accessible. It also integrates easily with many tools that you use on an everyday basis. Integrating Azure with […]
Azure Reservations vs Savings Plans: Pros & Cons Explained
Introduction Cloud costs can pile up quickly as your business scales. Azure Cloud gives you powerful tools for storage, networking, and infrastructure. But if not managed properly, the bills can take a big chunk out of your budget. Azure offers two cost-saving plans to help businesses save costs: Azure Reservations and Savings Plans. These pricing […]