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AI Cost Optimization At Scale: How One CloudZero Customer Manages Spend Across 50+ LLMs

AI adoption isn’t just accelerating, it’s compounding. From GPT-5 to Claude to Llama and beyond, engineering teams are integrating diverse LLMs across products, experiments, and services. And finance teams are now grappling with a new kind of cloud complexity: token-based economics and volatile inference costs, often spread across multi-model, multi-cloud, and multi-region architectures. The modern FinOps stack needs to keep up. CloudZero was built for this moment.

Tips and prompts for developers using the Cortex MCP

AI coding assistants are already transforming how developers work, helping them write code faster, answer tough questions, and automate repetitive tasks. It’s exciting, it’s powerful… and it’s just the beginning. Cortex MCP connects your AI assistant directly to your live service data, ownership, and organizational standards so it can give accurate, context-rich answers right in your IDE.

Amazon SageMaker Pricing Guide: 2025 Costs (And Savings)

Amazon SageMaker makes it easy to prepare data for machine learning (ML) and then train, deploy, and modify ML models. SageMaker is a fully managed service that automates much of the ML lifecycle. So, if you want a single partner to help you through all stages of your Artificial Intelligence (AI) lifecycle, SageMaker might be the answer. Perhaps more important for this post is the promise that Amazon SageMaker can reduce your machine learning model costs. But does SageMaker pricing reflect this?

QA Testing in 2025: Revolutionize Your Workflow with Preview Environments

Software quality assurance has changed dramatically over the past few years. Today, the velocity of software development demands more than traditional staging and shared QA environments. Releases are expected to be faster, integration cycles shorter, and quality standards higher. These pressures have inspired a growing interest in preview environments—ephemeral, production-like spaces spun up on demand for testing code changes in isolation.

Cycle Joins the Vultr Cloud Alliance

Cycle.io is proud to announce that we have officially joined the Vultr Cloud Alliance , a curated ecosystem of best-in-class cloud providers and services. The alliance is built around the opportunity to provide developers, startups, and enterprises more choice, flexibility, and performance without the overhead of traditional orchestration tools.

Reliability is when customers aren't impacted

Ultimately, a system is reliable when customers and engineers can count on it. Full transcript:  When I get to hear stories like, "Hey, we just had our holiday sales event kick off and everything went smoothly and I didn't have to wake up in the middle of the night." That is really the true definition of reliability these people that are constantly hands-on keyboard in charge of making sure that people like myself and like you aren't impacted when we're going to, for example, buy a new pair of sneakers, or we're going to get some sort of limited edition release that's coming out, right?

Zero-downtime deployment with Flagsmith and CircleCI

As developers, we continually strive to improve our software. This often means rolling out new software features at a rapid pace. However, deploying new features to production is not without risk. From no real production testing to limited rollback options, traditional deployment can quickly become frustrating. The worst issues, though, usually stem from one thing: buggy features making their way into the hands of users.

Using Claude to power up your onboarding

I joined incident.io about ten weeks ago, having been in my previous role for four and a half years. Being a new starter was an unusual feeling for me, and there's been a huge amount to learn; but by lunch on my second day (!) I had started shipping value to our customers. A large part of hitting the ground running has been having a colleague alongside me, who I can pester with questions, who doesn’t get offended when I write in all capitals, and often praises me for being absolutely right!