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A tricky Google Cloud support ticket that spanned GKE, Private Service Connect (PSC), Networking, Hostnet, Kernel, and the Linux kernel itself.

More customers, businesses, and consumers are beginning to care more about where their data is stored, who can access it, and how to keep the cloud private.

CloudZero's Emily Allen and Brady Lenahan talked through how finance capitalizes AI spend and sets limits on it after a year of companywide AI adoption. Picture your AI line item last fall. A few seats, one vendor, tucked inside the software budget. Now picture it today. That’s the year Emily Allen, director of finance and accounting at CloudZero, walked through in our 30-minute webinar FY2027 AI budgets: how finance leaders plan on October 29, 2026.

Picking a dimension means choosing from a list of names. But names only tell users so much. “Product,” “Team,” and “Cost Center” mean different things in different orgs. If you’re building a report you have to guess which one fits the question you’re answering.

See how a Google Cloud outage took major brands like Home Depot offline, and why digital experience monitoring spots failures before status pages update.

Two-thirds of UK IT leaders say they would switch cloud providers to take back control. Fifteen percent have actually done it. That is the headline from Civo's Digital Sovereignty Revolution 2026, a survey of 1,000 UK IT leaders. The intent is loud and getting louder. The movement is almost silent. It would be easy to call that apathy. It is not. UK organizations are staying on hyperscale infrastructure they no longer fully trust for four very specific reasons. Three of them are structural.

Most cost questions get answered the same way. You read a chart and the table under it together. Maybe you spot a jump on the chart, and then you go looking in the table for the service, account, or team that caused it. When you can see more of that table while the chart is still in view, the whole review goes faster. You’re also a lot less likely to lose your place halfway through.

Activity categorization classifies every AI request by the work it performs, such as meeting prep, code review or account research, then assigns that spend to the team, person, model and provider behind it. It turns a provider invoice that shows only totals by model and API key into a breakdown finance can allocate, charge back and budget from. CloudZero AI Signals does this as the spend happens.

Amazon told its own engineers this week to stop tokenmaxxing. The memo circulated internally in September and Amazon published it on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Tokenmaxxing is the practice of using AI as heavily as possible with little regard for whether the output justifies the spend. The memo calls token usage, adoption rates, and code-change counts “deeply flawed” ways to measure a team.