Question: I need a solution that can help me optimize cloud costs and improve data governance, do you know of any?

First up is nOps, an automated FinOps platform that can help you cut your AWS costs by up to 50%. It includes tools like Compute Copilot, Commitment Manager and Cloud Optimization Essentials to optimize EKS and ASG costs, manage savings plans and automate cost optimization tasks. The platform is geared for companies that have a hard time seeing what's going on in the cloud and that over-provision, and it's got full support for AWS marketplace partners and automated managed AWS resource integration.

Another contender is Secoda, an all-in-one data management platform that combines data catalog, lineage, governance and monitoring. It's got AI-powered search, automated workflows and a data requests portal to help you manage data across many sources. Secoda is designed to improve data governance, monitoring and productivity by consolidating data management tools and cutting costs.

Last is Informatica, a cloud-based AI-powered data management platform that links, manages and unifies data across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. With tools like data catalog, data integration and governance, Informatica helps companies modernize their data management and make their data AI-ready. It's geared for many industries and offers consumption-based pricing.