Beyond the Wall – Cloud Cost Reduction Case Study (Heb)

A cloud provider’s cost optimizer can only get you this far. To maximize your savings, you need to explore cost centers like CDN, and sometimes put engineering capabilities to work. Hear how we did it for an APAC eCommerce giant, as appeared on Israel Cloud Summit.

Presented by David Amir, FinOps team leader @GlobalDots.

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