Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 4, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Update “What we're seeing in the quarter is that those cost optimizations, while still going on, are moderating and many maybe behind us in some of our large customers. Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4).

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Cloud Azure AWS Cost optimization & reporting 130

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. Both Microsoft and Amazon called out broad based customer optimization efforts to reduce their AWS and Azure bills (not a great signal for other consumption based peers like Snowflake, Datadog, Mongo, etc).

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Cloud Azure AWS Cost optimization & reporting 130

CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

Feature value: a function of time investment of users and customers The set of problems that your SaaS solves won’t survive long in the digital age if all it does is cut prices. When thinking about billing events, the challenge is to construct a set of value events that provides your customers a choice of price points.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) SaaS Cloud 130

CloudGeometry

APRIL 25, 2022

5 Application Deployment Options Almost every B2B SaaS company presents a subscription pricing scheme in a menu with three or four columns. Check the right-most column, and often you’ll see a package called “Enterprise” listing the price as “Call us”. Why (besides the all reasons listed above and below)? They build on each other.

Enterprise readiness 130

Enterprise readiness Enterprise Technical Review Software Review 130

Neil Patel

MARCH 10, 2021

To sign up, go to Donut.com, go to “pricing,” and click “add to Slack” for the free option. You can use it as a platform to send messages to team members, but there’s plenty of other useful features too, like: time tracking payroll processing reporting sharing news task management labor cost optimization.

Marketing 142

Marketing Cost optimization & reporting Company Culture Entertainment 142

BetterCloud

JUNE 27, 2024

BetterCloud’s 2024 State of SaaSOps report found that for the first time ever, SaaS growth stalled – for the first time ever. In this mini-release, we want to delve into this eye opening finding from this year’s report ( coming July 9! ). The 2024 State of SaaSOps report validates this. The loudest directive?

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Cost optimization & reporting Systems Review Software Review 52

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

We’re seeing this occur within our startups Transition: Speaking of cost, let’s talk about the expense of AI Slide 11 Clearing: In the 24 months after chatGPT3 was released, a parameter race was unleashed where the sizes of models became ever larger, culminating most recently with Lama 3.3 at 450 billion parameters.

Data 100

Data AI Search Scale Software Engineering 100

BetterCloud

MARCH 5, 2025

Lets dive into how to navigate the complexities of SaaS vendor management, focusing on cost optimization and risk mitigation to benefit both your IT systems and your financial health. With software prices rising every year, these redundant subscriptions often add up to the SaaS cost. What is SaaS vendor management?

Technical Review 52

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