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VMware Cloud on AWS Pricing: Is It Really Cheaper Than AWS?

With VMware Cloud on AWS now generally available after VMware first announced it in the fall of 2016, we can finally see how it compares in price with standard AWS. VMware has provided a price co…

November 10, 2017 Kim Weins

AWS Reserved Instances vs. Google Committed Use Discounts

Today Google announced the latest salvo in the cloud pricing wars, Committed Use Discounts, which are a competitor to AWS Reserved Instances. Google’s new Committed Use Discounts provide discounts (of…

March 9, 2017 Kim Weins

AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Pricing: Compute Instances

Comparing cloud pricing is complicated. It can be difficult to make apples-to-apples comparisons because cloud providers offer different pricing models, unique discounting options, and frequent price …

November 28, 2016 Kim Weins

AWS Costs: How Much Are You Wasting?

One of the most popular topics among cloud users is how to save money on their cloud bills. Our recent webinar comparing cloud prices on AWS vs, Azure vs. Google Cloud was a crowd favorite. However, i…

November 15, 2016 Kim Weins

Accelerate Code Development with Cloud Application Templates

RightScale Cloud Application Templates (CATs) help you orchestrate, operate, manage, and provision complex application stacks in the cloud regardless of the cloud infrastructure providers you use…

August 25, 2016 Flexera

New DevOps Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey

RightScale conducted its fifth annual State of the Cloud Survey in January 2016 with a special focus on the latest DevOps trends. The overarching trend is that DevOps adoption is growing, especially i…

May 11, 2016 Kim Weins

Migrating to Docker: The Final Results

The RightScale engineering team is moving the entire RightScale cloud management platform comprising 52 services and 1,028 cloud instances to Docker. This article is the sixth in a series ch…

May 10, 2016 Flexera

Understand Your Effective Cloud Costs with Markups and Markdowns

When calculating cloud costs, organizations often need to account for overhead costs (such as internal personnel costs, software license costs, and certification costs) that are not included on a clou…

March 28, 2016 Flexera

How to Manage Cloud Costs via a Single API

At RightScale, we are helping customers as they move toward automated outcomes where data and analytics are used to drive action. RightScale Cloud Analytics makes such automation possible by aggr…

March 21, 2016 Flexera

Reduce Cloud Costs: Watch Out for Zombie Instances

It happens over and over again: You receive a cloud bill that is higher than expected. After some investigation, you find there are a bunch of zombie instances — unused servers left running because no…

March 15, 2016 Flexera