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The very tools designed to streamline cloud operations can sometimes stretch budgets thin. One good example is managing the costs associated with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). While AWS MSK simplifies deploying and scaling Kafka clusters, the costs can stack up if not optimized. Here’s how you can rethink your AWS MSK deployment […]
3rd February, 2025
Shared Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) have been a common workaround for reducing EC2 costs, but their value has always been limited. On average, these shared pools deliver only 25% savings on On-Demand costs—far below the 60% savings achievable with automated reservation tools. For IT and DevOps teams, the trade-offs include added complexity, […]
Itay Tal
5th December, 2024
Kafka is no longer exclusively the domain of high-velocity Big Data use cases. Today, it is utilized on by workloads and companies of all sizes, supporting asynchronous communication between even small groups of microservices. But this expanded usage has led to problems with cost creep that threaten many companies’ bottom lines. And due to the […]
Itay Tal
29th September, 2024
A popular e-commerce platform was growing fast, but that growth created challenges. With a poorly optimized cloud setup, the company faced content quality problems, as well as ongoing security issues. The only way to solve the problem was to optimize their CloudFront distribution – leading them to work with GlobalDots’ innovation experts. Using the solution […]
Itay Tal
11th September, 2024
