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There is a typical challenge, frequently faced by organizations of different sizes, domains and technologies. Financial, development, security, and management teams work each in their own bubble. Each team uses different tools, tracks different metrics, and speaks a different language even if it comes to the same subject. This disconnection frequently leads to miscommunication, friction, unexpected budget overruns, and security gaps. The result is inefficiency and risk that could otherwise be avoided. Effective cloud management and FinOps is not only about the tools. It's a cultural shift toward shared accountability for cloud spending. It requires creating an environment where technical, management, and financial teams can work together seamlessly. Maestro is the platform enabling this by design. It provides a unified view for infrastructure, costs, security, breaking down departmental barriers and enabling effective, data-driven cooperation across your entire organizati...

In our previous posts we have already discussed the details on the financial management tools, by their function on different stages of infrastructure lifecycle (find them here ). We also frequently speak about security , and optimization . Maestro Dashboard is the key entry point for both finding out the data about your infrastructure, and cooperation between teams.It represents the key indicators and findings, each grouped in separate views for your convenience. Here, you can see the general infrastructure statistics, top spendings per cloud, service, or resource type (FinOps); the suggested infrastructure optimization possibilities (Optimization), and the security and compliance statuses (Security). Maestro Dashboard is not only about row data: you can interact with the numbers, call reports, thus receiving more details and diving deeper into investigations of specific cases. You can also adjust the content and look for the Dashboard to better meet your goals,...

The value of proper scheduling is hard to underestimate. With modern enterprises having hundreds of instances across multiple clouds, arranging proper scheduling requires specific attention. This applies both to organizing the infrastructure and creating an effective scheduling plan. Some time ago , we spoke about the basics of the scheduling approaches and the ways Maestro supports them. Today, we are going to look into the latest improvements in the scheduling offering which bring the whole experience to a completely new level. Before going on, you can find a brief video overview of the Scheduling mechanism in a video below: Schedule types: What's the issue? Effective infrastructure management needs you to arrange the proper resource sorting. This can be based on the environment type (env, prod, QA, etc), affected user teams (marketing, development, DevOps, etc), geography, etc. This is where using tags and splitting resources across different regions or clouds wo...

Infrastructure analytics is one of the cornerstones for effective cloud management. Each cloud provider offers its own set of features and services for such purpose. We can say that AWS QuickSight, Google Data Studio, and Microsoft BI are among the top of the native analytics and BI offerings. They are deeply integrated into their native infrastructures, provide the detailed review of the infrastructure state, events and cost, and allow to take a deep dive into details, being powered by strong internal mechanisms and AI/ML engines. However, in many cases they provide a huge volume of data which needs a BI expert to cope with, as well as may have limited customization possibilities in terms of the covered data scope. Also, if you use more than one cloud, or have private datacenters, the fact that each of these tools is limited to its vendor, may be a reason for you to find a third-party analytics tool. Here is where you may consider solutions such as CloudHealth, AppOptics, or...

As we all know, self-service is one of the main focuses of Maestro. For the sake of effective self-service, Maestro supports the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach that allows preparing stack templates and employing these templates when creating new resources. One of the IaC tools taken on board by Maestro is Terraform by HashiCorp – a cross-platform solution that allows managing complex infrastructures hosted in multiple clouds. Why Terraform? Main advantages of Terraform as an IaC tool are wide functionality, cross-platformity, and separated phases of planning and execution that give time and space for the users to review their infrastructure and make them confident in the results. Main strengths of the Terraform solution incorporated by Maestro are Integration with GitHub Catalog of templates Lock the Template option Extended functionality for reviewing stacks These tools and actions are available in both web and mobile versions of Maestro ...