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What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q3 2025 - Cloud Database

Jan 12, 2026 By VictoriaMetrics In VictoriaMetrics
Join Marc Sherwood and Jose Gomez-Selles as they unveil the significant updates to VictoriaMetrics Cloud from Q3 2025 and share a glimpse into the exciting roadmap for what's coming next! This session is packed with new features designed to make your monitoring experience more robust, user-friendly, and cost-effective. In this video, you'll discover: Expansion to Asia! VictoriaMetrics Cloud now has a brand new region on AWS ap-southeast-1 (Singapore) in Asia Pacific, bringing lower latency and regional data sovereignty closer to your teams and deployments.
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Cloud Strategy for 2026: the Year of Repatriation, Resilience, and Regional Rebalancing

Cloud Strategy for 2026: the Year of Repatriation, Resilience, and Regional Rebalancing

Jan 10, 2026 By Pulsant In Pulsant
This year is set to be a pivotal year for cloud strategy, with repatriation gaining momentum due to shifting legislative, geopolitical, and technological pressures. This trend has accelerated, with a growing focus on data sovereignty. These challenges have set the stage for 2026 to be the year of repatriation, resilience, and regional rebalancing. Here, Rob Coupland, Chief Executive Officer at Pulsant, offers his insights.
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upsun

AI coding assistants are only as good as the context you give them

Jan 9, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
AI coding assistants have quickly become part of everyday development. Teams now rely on them to explain unfamiliar code, suggest configuration files, debug errors, and accelerate delivery across the stack. But as these tools move from experimentation into real production workflows, a consistent pattern is emerging: AI breaks down at the platform boundary.
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cloudzero

Budget Variance In The Cloud Era: Here's How To Turn Surprises Into Business Value

Jan 9, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
In the traditional finance world, budget variance was a static comparison between actual and budgeted spend. But in the cloud era, where costs scale with usage, experimentation, and engineering decisions, variance tells a much richer story. Done right, budget variance helps you distinguish between healthy growth and margin erosion. It can signal strong feature adoption, rising customer demand, or successful launches. It can also reveal waste, inefficiencies, and weak cost controls.
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cloudzero

AWS API Gateway Pricing Simplified: A 2026 Guide For Cost Savings

Jan 8, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
Why does AWS API Gateway spend rise even when backend infrastructure stays the same? For most teams, the answer isn’t compute. API Gateway pricing is driven by how APIs are used — request volume, retry behavior, traffic patterns, and growth over time — not by provisioned resources. Because AWS reports these costs as aggregated usage totals, it’s often unclear which APIs, environments, or behaviors are responsible for increases.
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Internxt

What Is Object Storage? How it works, Pricing, Definition, Solutions

Jan 8, 2026 By Nathan James Turner In Internxt
Traditional cloud storage models may struggle to meet the high demands of data storage for large enterprises, leading companies to find a more effective, scalable, and quick way to access hundreds of files. This is why the best solution to manage large amounts of data is cloud object storage solutions.
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datadog

Bring faster visibility into AWS Lambda functions with remote instrumentation

Jan 7, 2026 By Tal Usvyatsky In Datadog
Comprehensive observability is critical for running performant, reliable, and secure serverless workloads. However, configuring and maintaining that visibility across hundreds or thousands of serverless functions can be difficult to scale and sustain. Developers across teams often manage serverless functions using different infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks, as well as different review, deployment, and update processes.
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civo

How to achieve cloud agility without compromising control or cost

Jan 6, 2026 By Russell Smith In Civo
As organizations increasingly embrace digital transformation, cloud agility has become a critical priority. Yet, the promise of cloud-native speed and flexibility often comes with trade-offs: loss of control, unpredictable costs, and operational complexity. Many companies find themselves stuck between the desire for agility and the reality of legacy infrastructure or regulatory constraints. At Civo, we don't think you have to choose. We’ve spent years helping teams navigate this tension.
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cloudzero

How Kubernetes Node Affinity Works (And Why It Matters for K8s Cost Control)

Jan 6, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
Think about how airlines assign seats on a plane. Some have extra legroom. Some sit near exits. Some are cheaper, while others cost a premium. Certain passengers also have strict requirements, like families traveling together or travelers who paid for a specific class. Now imagine boarding everyone randomly. A passenger who paid for extra legroom (perhaps for health reasons) ends up squeezed into a middle seat. Families scatter across the cabin. Premium seats sit half empty while the back rows overflow.
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