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Cloud providers' native cost management tools are like a GPS that only shows you where you've been, not where you're going. While these "free" tools excel at displaying technical metrics—showing costs by service, region, and instance type—they fundamentally fail to answer the business questions that matter.

AWS introduces tiered pricing for Lambda logs and new destinations, including S3 and Firehose. Learn how these changes can reduce costs by more than 50% for high-volume users.

AWS Lambda will start charging for the initialization phase on August 1, 2025. Learn which functions will be impacted most, how to measure the cost increase, and strategies to optimize your serverless architecture.

The recognition from Research.com is a testament to CloudYali's commitment to innovation and excellence. In response to this accolade, CloudYali is dedicated to remaining at the forefront of cloud cost management by embracing key trends shaping the future of cloud computing.

As businesses increasingly shift to the cloud, platforms like AWS and GCP have become essential for scaling operations, driving innovation, and ensuring flexibility. However, this widespread adoption has introduced a new challenge: effectively managing cloud costs. While the pay-as-you-go model offers flexibility, it can also lead to unexpected expenses if not carefully monitored and controlled.

Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey offers a cost-effective alternative to ElastiCache for Redis, with up to 33% lower serverless pricing and more granular storage billing. This comprehensive guide explores the cost benefits, performance improvements, and zero-downtime migration process, helping you make an informed decision for your caching needs.

Discover practical strategies for optimizing AWS Lambda costs in 2025. This comprehensive guide covers right-sizing, smart code optimization, event filtering, and efficient monitoring techniques. Learn how to reduce Lambda costs without sacrificing performance, implement best practices, and avoid common pitfalls. Perfect for developers and architects looking to build cost-efficient serverless applications.

AWS NAT Gateway is essential for managing traffic from private subnets, but it can silently inflate your cloud costs through data processing fees. Every AWS service call—whether to S3, DynamoDB, or other services—incurs a $0.045/GB charge when routed through NAT Gateway. This comprehensive guide breaks down these hidden costs and provides practical strategies to optimize your AWS architecture for significant savings. You'll learn how to implement VPC endpoints effectively, understand data transfer patterns, and maintain performance while reducing expenses.

Modern cloud environments require sophisticated cost attribution beyond basic tagging. CloudYali helps organizations overcome challenges like inconsistent tagging and complex multi-cloud architectures by automating tag standardization, providing real-time cost visibility, and offering optimization recommendations. This enables accurate cost allocation, better budget control, and efficient resource management across cloud providers.

Discover how AWS Cost Allocation Tags improve cloud cost visibility, enhance tag compliance, and optimize resource utilization. Learn challenges, best practices, and how CloudYali simplifies tagging with standardization tools and detailed insights to streamline cost management.

Explore the differences and use cases between EFS file systems and storage classes.

Amazon Bedrock is essential for the development of generative AI applications. It is important to understand its fundamental components, factors affecting costs, and strategies for cost optimization.

Gain full visibility into your AI expenses with CloudYali. Our platform offers a clear cost overview, detailed usage analytics, cross-provider tracking, and team-level breakdowns, empowering you to manage and optimize AI spending efficiently. Sign up today to unlock actionable insights and maximize your cloud cost control.

CloudYali Budget Alerts makes it easy to manage cloud costs across multi-cloud infrastructures. With flexible budgets, advanced filters, and smart alerts, users can track spending in real-time across AWS and GCP. Whether you need a unified budget for multiple accounts, environment-specific budgets, or departmental cost allocation, CloudYali’s tools provide visibility and control to prevent budget overruns. Getting started is simple: set up your first budget to monitor critical expenses, then expand as needed. CloudYali Budget Alerts ensures you stay informed and in control of cloud spending, helping to eliminate waste and improve financial accountability.

AWS Graviton processors are transforming cloud workloads by providing exceptional cost optimization, enhanced performance, and contributing to sustainability goals. Built on ARM architecture, Graviton processors deliver a better price-performance ratio compared to traditional x86 processors, resulting in significant cost savings for compute-intensive, general-purpose, and database workloads.

The principle of least privilege (PoLP) is easier to understand until you put it into practice. In this series, we will discuss PoLP, how to set up accounts and guardrails, what tools to use, what process to follow, what technical and managerial challenges you may encounter, how to tackle them, and so on.

As your startup scales on AWS, managing access control becomes crucial. This blog post provides a roadmap for securing your cloud environment. You'll learn about the limitations of basic IAM users, the benefits of centralized identity management, and the capabilities of AWS IAM Identity Center with Just-In-Time access. By the end, you'll have a clear strategy to secure your AWS environment while maintaining agility.

Modern companies implement Just-In-Time (JIT) access management systems with an automated system to minimise the attack surface and realise the Zero Trust.

AWS Community Builder Damien Burk discusses the benefits of AWS Systems Manager Session Manager (SSM) with EC2 instance in a step-by-step approach.

From mere labelling in 2010 to the sophisticated tagging services of today, AWS tagging has seen a rapid evolution. Each of these updates has provided users with additional functionality, greater control over their resources, and more effective monitoring, auditing, and management of their AWS infrastructure.

Use latest CIS AWS Foundations benchmark for securing AWS cloud resources. Understand what has changed in this version since CIS AWS v1.5.0

CloudFormation StackSet allows for automated onboarding of any number of member accounts, while also providing an exceptional user experience. By leveraging this technology, CloudYali ensures efficient and seamless account management for our valued users.

AWS S3 bucket creation date may be reported differently in different regions. To get the S3 bucket creation date correctly call list api in us-east-1.

Monitoring IAM user activities and tracking user access to specific regions and services is vital for maintaining the security of your AWS environment. By leveraging CloudYali, you can proactively detect suspicious behavior, enforce least privilege, and ensure compliance with confidence. Stay in control of your AWS security and protect your valuable resources.

As organizations scale and adopt multi-account environments,monitoring a large number of IAM users becomes increasingly challenging. CloudYali provides ready to use IAM monitoring to help cloud teams monitor their IAM landscape with east and no efforts.

Improving your AWS IAM hygiene is critical in protecting your cloud resources and data. By following these 10 steps, you can establish a robust security framework that protects your business from cyber threats. From reviewing your IAM policies to enabling MFA and monitoring your IAM activity, each step is designed to help you maintain the security and integrity of your AWS account.

Discover how to gain complete visibility and control over your cloud assets with our comprehensive guide to cloud asset inventory.

Learn about the technical details of AWS PrivateLink and VPC Endpoint services, and how they can improve your network security and performance.

Introducing the AWS Services Availability: the ultimate UI tool to discover all AWS service regions with ease. Find all the regions a service is hosted and all active AWS services in just a few clicks!

Instance metadata service (IMDS) provides sensitive information. Understand IMDSv1 weakness and how IMDSv2 improves security. Identify IMDSv1 enabled instances across your cloud.

Unencrypted EBS volumes can become a critical security issue. Make sure all EBS volumes which may contain sensitive information are encrypted. CloudYali makes it super easy to find the unencrypted EBS volumes from all regions and AWS accounts.

Not all AWS services are available in all AWS regions. Discover different ways you can find all AWS regions any AWS services are available.

Experimenting on AWS can be costly. Fortunately, AWS promotional credits are available through various sources.

AWS Security Group and Network Access Control List (NACL) work together to protect AWS Resources in a VPC. Understanding the differences between these is important for greatly improving the security of AWS Resources.

CloudYali now enables cloud teams to search for AWS resources across accounts and regions with Global AWS Tag Search. This new feature simplifies the cloud management using AWS tags.

The AWS Identity and Access Management is the fabric that connects almost everything in the AWS Cloud ecosystem. Understanding the IAM model properly is key to a successful cloud implementation.