A look back at the May and June 2022 Cloud Shows

For Lota.cloud, the last two months have been full of events. We have had the pleasure of being invited to many trade shows around the Cloud, FinOps and IT innovation. You can relive these rich moments of exchange and sharing through this article! Meetup #12 Cloud FinOps France This event took place in the offices of ...

Backing up your VMs in the Cloud

Data redundancy has been the topic of March 2021. Indeed, earlier this month, OVHCloud suffered a major production incident in their Strasbourg datacenter, with a fire that burned down one datacenter and a second half. The communication of the Cloud provider was clear ...

What is planned autoscaling?

Google Cloud Plateform (GCP) joins AWS and Microsoft Azure on Planned autoscaling. One of the many best practices of FinOps is autoscaling. GCP has just joined AWS and Azure on this topic. If you're a step behind, or just starting out in FinOps, here's a short summary on it. What is autoscaling? Autoscaling is ...

Provisionned Competition on AWS Lambda: a really useful tool?

AWS does not change its good habits and continues to announce new services to feed its Cloud offer. Recently, the American giant announced the launch of a new service compatible with AWS Lambda: "Provisioned Concurrency". As you probably know, Lambda is a reference product in the AWS Cloud offering.

How to integrate AWS Saving Plans into your cloud strategy?

AWS recently announced a new tool to optimize the management of your Cloud budget: Saving Plans. To summarize briefly, Saving Plans allow you to get very attractive discounts on reserved AWS instances, while enjoying greater flexibility than with Reserved Instances. This new practice is causing some cloud professionals to consider ...

CodeGuru: AWS launches its new code optimization tool

Like every year, AWS takes advantage of the visibility of its "Re:invent" summit to announce its ambitions, its objectives, but also the new products prepared by its army of developers. At the time of writing, Las Vegas is invaded by cloud professionals from all over the world to attend the great mass ...

Saving Plans, hourly granularity and recommendations: the new AWS innovations

To enhance its Cloud Cost Management offering and allow users to better control their AWS expenses, Amazon regularly develops new features to enrich its product line. In particular, since July 2019, AWS has developed three features that allow users to better control their Cloud bills. If you use Amazon's platform, here are ...

The beginning of the Lota.cloud adventure

This adventure began in Canada after a stay in Kanata, Ontario. We were hosted for a month in the offices of Wesley Clover, one of our investors, where we were able to exchange with many technology companies such as Mitel, AirVM or Solace. The latter was just launching its new Cloud service. Thanks to these meetings, we were able to ...