Anomaly detection using dynamic thresholds and two-year-long alerts in Cloud Monitoring
Long-lookback alert policies for PromQL cover up to two years of metrics in Cloud Monitoring for year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter analysis.
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Don't 'control' your AI spend. Understand it and be intentional.
There’s a good interview making the rounds. BizTech sat down with IBM’s James Stevenson to talk about how financial institutions can get a handle on cloud and AI costs. The advice is solid: get visibility, kill idle resources, tighten governance, tag everything. And pull finance and engineering into the same room. I don’t disagree with it. But I read the whole piece and noticed where the gravity pulls: control costs, reduce waste, bring down spend. The headline says it (‘Q&A.
Shipped: Turn your Bifrost gateway into an AI spend meter
If you route model traffic through Bifrost, you already have the hard part: one place every AI call passes through, where the model, the tokens, and the cost are visible on the way past. It’s the cheapest spot in your stack to measure AI spend. What’s missing is everything downstream – today that usage only becomes “spend” weeks later, when the provider invoice lands as a lump sum you can’t break apart.
Managing DHCP Across Distributed Networks
Managing DHCP across distributed networks gets messy fast. Lease activity changes constantly. Naming conventions drift. Infrastructure changes happen independently across locations. Before long, your team no longer has a complete view of what’s happening across the network. What started as a straightforward service becomes a records problem with real operational consequences.
Sovereign cloud for financial services: Meeting FCA and PRA requirements with UK infrastructure
Financial services in the UK operates under one of the most demanding regulatory frameworks in the world. The FCA and PRA between them set expectations for operational resilience, outsourcing, data governance, and concentration risk that shape every infrastructure decision a regulated firm makes. Cloud adoption in the sector has happened, but it's happened under regulatory scrutiny that's grown steadily more pointed over the last several years.
SharePoint Archive Site: Microsoft's Native Feature (2026)
What a SharePoint archive site is, how Microsoft 365 Archive hibernates a whole site, what it costs, and when a file-level alternative fits better.
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CloudWatch Logs to S3: The Easy Way
Many organizations use Amazon CloudWatch to analyze log data, but find that restrictive CloudWatch log retention issues hold them back from effective troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. As a result, many companies may be looking for effective ways to export CloudWatch logs to S3 automatically. Let's look at some of the reasons why you might want to export CloudWatch logs to S3 in the first place, along with some Amazon-native and open-source tools to help you with the process.
AI ROI Dispatches: How a non-engineer solved a $300K problem for under $1K
A year ago, the sentence “I just deployed an app on GitHub” wouldn’t have made sense coming from me. I’m the VP of People at CloudZero; code deployments and I were not close friends. That’s changed. In this AI era, non-engineers are building, and I think that’s a genuinely good thing. But only if it’s tied to something that matters.
Shipped: LiteLLM is probably under-counting your Claude spend
If you run Claude through LiteLLM, some of that spend is probably going uncounted – and you can’t see it, precisely because the data isn’t there. Routing through a gateway is messier than it looks: LiteLLM alone can carry Claude several ways – the OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and the Anthropic pass-through proxy that the native SDK and Claude Code use – and each path describes the same call differently.
Upsun Dispatch is available in prerelease
When we introduced Upsun Dispatch last week, we said we were building the platform layer for everything around the code. Today, you can apply to join as a founding design partner. Starting July 1, 2026, a number of engineering organizations will join us in prerelease. This is a selective, high-touch collaboration with teams who want to help shape what comes next. If you missed the introduction, you can catch up on Upsun Dispatch here.