Stop the PCI DSS 4.0 audit toil: a guide to inherited controls
By standardizing the unified configuration file, Upsun enables true cloud optionality, moving provider migration from a re-architect project to a data move project.
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The AI Paradox: Why You Have To Spend More And Can't Explain Where It Goes
AI adoption costs are going parabolic. The companies that can see what they're spending will invest with confidence. Everyone else is flying blind. Every company adopting AI is facing the same problem: the cost of AI adoption in products, in operations, and especially in engineering is accelerating with no alignment between spend and value. The competitive pressure is real. Companies that don’t invest in AI will be displaced by those that do. But the investment itself is becoming inscrutable.
Top-Down FinOps: Align Cloud Spend with Real Business Strategy
In this episode of FinOps on Azure, Michael Stephenson sits down with Frank Contrepois, independent FinOps voice and co-host of The FinOps Guys podcast — to explore what it really means to manage cloud costs from a business-first perspective. Frank has been in the FinOps space for nearly a decade and brings a genuinely different angle to the conversation. His background in commodity trading at Strategic Blue (a Morgan Stanley spinoff) shaped how he thinks about reserved instances, commitment strategies, and why most teams approach cost management the wrong way round.
No egress fees. No lock-in. That's cloud freedom
With hyperscalers, growth comes with a hidden cost. The more your data moves, the more you pay, by design. Egress fees are that cost. A model built to discourage migration, limit flexibility, and keep you trapped in their ecosystem. At Civo, we've eliminated that barrier completely. No egress fees, no hidden charges. Every cost is transparent and predictable, so you always know exactly what you're paying for. You stay because you choose to. That's cloud freedom.
What Is AWS EKS, and How Does It Work with Kubernetes?
Amazon EKS is AWS’s managed Kubernetes service for deploying and scaling containerized applications. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies deploying, scaling, and running containerized applications on AWS and on-premises. EKS automates Kubernetes control plane management, ensuring high availability and seamless integration with AWS services like IAM, VPC, and ALB.
Confluent Cloud Pricing: A Complete Cost Guide for Streaming Infrastructure (2026)
Confluent Cloud pricing ranges from $1,000–$200,000+/month based on cluster type, throughput, and add-ons.
Amazon Comprehend Pricing: A Complete Guide (2026)
Learn exactly how Amazon Comprehend pricing works, NLP, PII, custom models, endpoints, and how to control costs before they spiral.
Your preview environment is lying to you
A customer asked me once, in the middle of a demo, "what is lorem ipsum?" That is the moment. The preview URL loaded. Every page rendered. The merge was clean, the build was green, the tests passed. And a customer I was trying to sell to was reading placeholder copy out loud on a shared screen. I've thought about that moment a lot. Not for the embarrassment, though I earned it. For what it told me about what a preview environment actually is, which is not what most of us think it is.
Understanding Long-Term Cloud Migration Cost Savings
Whether you’re a small start-up or a large-scale enterprise, data storage and backups are a necessity for a business to run smoothly. While many businesses may need on-premises storage for maximum control, this can be expensive, so if you’re wondering about the cloud migration cost savings when using a company like Internxt S3, this article will cover everything you need to help migrate or store data in the cloud.