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We had a great time at AWS Summit Chicago this year at McCormick Place on April 19th. The summit saw over 4,300 attendees, 48 AWS led sessions and 10+ hours of learning and networking opportunities. This event, just like the cloud industry, gets larger every year and only looks to keep growing! There were presentations […]

SmileShark, a fast-growing managed services startup from South Korea, has partnered with CloudCheckr to optimize customers’ Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs and ensure efficient, accurate billing operations

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is the most widely used cloud storage service for Amazon Web Services (AWS) — and with good reason. It is designed specifically for use with EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute), is suited to a wide variety of use cases, offers several different volume types, and boasts an extensive range of options […]

I had the opportunity to sit down (technically we were standing) with Matt Yanchyshyn, Global Tech Lead for AWS Partner Program, to talk about how we have architected CloudCheckr. We recorded the chat for This is My Architecture , their video series on innovative cloud architectures. It was great to hear from Matt that he has a lot […]

The market for cloud managed services is more competitive than ever. Every provider wants to get ahead of their competitors. Yet differentiating themselves and securing customer loyalty are challenges that every provider faces. Customers want more control over their cloud environment as they go deeper into their cloud journey, and MSPs are poised to guide […]

The higher education space can present serious cloud governance challenges for internal IT and finance teams. For a leading Ivy League institution like Cornell University, with over 70 AWS accounts across campus (and growing!), efficiently managing aspects of AWS like billing, inventory, and utilization relies upon leveraging the actionable insights and automation enabled by the […]

While the pay-as-you-go model of the cloud is appealing to many, those who know that they will be using resources on a regular basis can save money by prepaying for usage. Previously, the only way to do this using Amazon Web Services (AWS) was to purchase Reserved Instances. Then in 2019, AWS introduced Savings Plans […]

A lot of time has been spent in Buffalo recently talking about the success and impact of ACV Auctions. The software company went from three employees five years ago to more than 1,000 now and has raised about $300 million in private funding over that period, making it a bell cow for scalable software in […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — June 11, 2019 — CloudCheckr, the independent cloud management platform for cloud cost optimization, security, and compliance, revealed a new way for organizations in regulated industries to take advantage of the innovations available in the public cloud. Announced at the annual AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., CloudCheckr’s new High-Security, fortified […]

Editor’s note: This article was first published by Curious Orbit and appears on the CloudCheckr blog as a guest post. If I had to weigh the difficulty of the AWS platform versus finding the right technical resources, by far the search for the best resources for your team is the most challenging aspect of building […]