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How to use Grafana Assistant with the AWS CloudWatch data source

Grafana Assistant meets AWS CloudWatch! In this video, Staff Software Engineer Ivana Huckova shows how to use Grafana Assistant, the AI agent built into Grafana Cloud, with the Amazon CloudWatch data source. Watch her query CloudWatch metrics and logs in plain language, build dashboards in seconds, and troubleshoot AWS resources — no query syntax required.

Why multicloud has become a governance decision

For most IT leaders, multicloud didn't arrive as a decision. It arrived as a fait accompli. A team chose AWS for one workload. Azure came in through a Microsoft enterprise agreement. A SaaS acquisition brought its own cloud dependencies. A DR requirement pointed to a second region with a different provider. Nobody declared a multicloud strategy; the organization just became one. Today, 87% of organizations run a multicloud strategy, balancing an average of 2.6 public cloud providers simultaneously.

Native, full-stack autoscaling on Upsun: PostgreSQL and MariaDB read replicas now autoscale

Application autoscaling has existed for years. Database autoscaling has lagged behind. Today, that changes on Upsun. Managed PostgreSQL and MariaDB read replicas now autoscale, joining worker autoscaling in production since March 2026. Apps, workers, and managed databases all autoscalead replicas saturate first, connection pools max, someone getse on one platform - natively, without a third-party database engine or a Kubernetes layer to operate. Three operational headaches just disappeared.

The Ford assembly line lesson: parallels for AI transformation

Ford's competitors had the same electric motors he did. Most just swapped out the steam engine and kept the old factory layout, a costly mistake. Ford used the new tech to rebuild the plant around the flow of the car. Knowing how much power each machine drew, he knew his cost to produce a car, and made personal automobiles affordable for all.

Eliminate Reliability Blind Spots in AWS, Azure, and GCP

Cloud resilience often feels like an uphill battle. When you’re overseeing hundreds of applications across different providers, identifying potential failure points manually is nearly impossible. You’re left trying to find the needle in a haystack—a needle that could take down your entire application at any moment. To truly protect your uptime, you have to break the cycle of reactive troubleshooting.

Enterprises are making their biggest AI bets blind

AI cost observability is the practice of measuring, attributing, and analyzing AI workload costs at the request, model, and workflow level in real time. It connects cloud infrastructure spend, inference and token costs, and business attribution (cost per feature, team, customer, or product) so engineering, finance, and product teams can see where AI spend goes and whether it creates value. On July 14, IBM had its worst trading day since 1987.