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  • Gain continuous cloud cost visibility with customizable business-centric views

    Gain continuous cloud cost visibility with customizable business-centric views

    84% of enterprises and 69% of SMBs report that managing their cloud spend is their topmost priority. Cost management is more effective when you have a granular view of costs by applications/department, and the reasons for spikes or overspend. Tools that enable you with business centric views can often double the impact of your decisions.…

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  • Smart Security Orchestration & Automated Response (SOAR), Or Else

    Smart Security Orchestration & Automated Response (SOAR), Or Else

    In my previous blog post, I wrote how Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) while very boring, is a “necessary evil” in cloud security programs. I also wrote how without a proper tool, a rollout plan or application context, it can get very noisy. We also teased looking at automated remediation to combat this deluge of…

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  • Cloud Security Posture Management is boring but important

    Cloud Security Posture Management is boring but important

    “While it is not popular to say out loud – most companies just are not at the maturity to totally eschew a CSPM. Almost every day, organizations are still falling victim to poor cyber hygiene that a CSPM would otherwise surface for you,” writes Jonathan Rau – Head of Cloud & Offensive Security, IHS Markit.…

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  • Mitigate downtime risks with simplified blue/green deployments of Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate Applications

    Mitigate downtime risks with simplified blue/green deployments of Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate Applications

    Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate help customers modernize their applications and scale efficiently. DevOps teams rely on Blue/Green deployments to continuously release features without compromising reliability or customer experience. In this blog, Bhrikuty Aggarwal, Sr. Cloud Engineer at MontyCloud writes about how you can save up to 80% in time and effort setting up and…

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  • Q&A on Achieving CloudOps Excellence from the AWS CloudOps Day

    Q&A on Achieving CloudOps Excellence from the AWS CloudOps Day

    On March 16, 2021, Maureen Donlin, Interim Director of Research from St.Louis University (SLU), showcased how they gained 30% in researcher productivity without adding headcount in our first AWS CloudOps Day Webinar. Maureen and her team at SLU enabled their researchers with self-service provisioning of complex High Performance Computing Applications and CloudOps excellence for their…

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  • Reducing Total Cost of Cloud Operations up to 70%

    Reducing Total Cost of Cloud Operations up to 70%

    Teams driving successful digital transformations focus on driving down total cost of cloud operations starting with provisioning their first application. MontyCloud DAY2 enables cloud IT teams with real time security, compliance, governance and cost insights along with automated remediations, that help drive down the total cost of cloud operations by as much as 70%. For example, a large…

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  • Autonomous cloud security and compliance management – the foundation of a secure cloud

    Autonomous cloud security and compliance management – the foundation of a secure cloud

    The pandemic has accelerated digital transformations unlike any single event in history. While cloud enables application developers with amazing possibilities and modern development tools, it is also a challenge to infrastructure administrators and CIOs. For IT teams, cloud security is a constant balancing act between control, cost, and agility.

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  • Simple steps you can take today to automate your cloud security remediations

    Simple steps you can take today to automate your cloud security remediations

    Automating cloud security and compliance assessments can alert you faster. Then what? In this blog, Luke Walker – Principal Product Manager at MontyCloud shares how you can automate remediations. He also shares his list of Do’s and Don’ts, based on his years of experience working with customers. –  Sabrinath S. Rao Cloud security is like…

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  • Why and how to set up automated Disaster Recovery for your cloud infrastructure

    Why and how to set up automated Disaster Recovery for your cloud infrastructure

    The common misconception is that cloud applications are disaster proof. Several high-profile downtime events have proven otherwise. The reasons for downtime can range from misconfigurations to noisy neighbors. Planning and frequently testing disaster recovery plans can be complex. In this blog, Bhargava K, Cloud Solutions Engineer at MontyCloud writes how a Fortune 200 ISV, automated and simplified cross-region disaster recovery…

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  • Cloud Visibility: The unknown unknown – the great equalizer in cloud security!

    Cloud Visibility: The unknown unknown – the great equalizer in cloud security!

    Cloud security is a moving target because cloud infrastructure is dynamic by nature. Anyone in your team can add or remove resources, scale on demand, or bring resources online for testing. Add to this the fact that applications are deployed across multiple cloud accounts/regions and each service has its own API surface area, configurations, and…

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