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Answer any cost question faster with the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat

Managing cloud, AI, and SaaS costs means answering a steady stream of questions from finance, leadership, and engineering teams. What changed? Which team owns the spend? Was an increase expected? Are we still on track against the budget? When each answer requires moving between dashboards, filtering cost data by team or service, or manually correlating billing data with observability data, it can slow down investigations while costs continue to rise.

How to use Grafana Assistant with the AWS CloudWatch data source

Grafana Assistant meets AWS CloudWatch! In this video, Staff Software Engineer Ivana Huckova shows how to use Grafana Assistant, the AI agent built into Grafana Cloud, with the Amazon CloudWatch data source. Watch her query CloudWatch metrics and logs in plain language, build dashboards in seconds, and troubleshoot AWS resources — no query syntax required.

Shipped: Your Snowflake Data Share queries just got faster and cheaper

If you pull cost data from a CloudZero Snowflake Data Share, a request for just a few days of data could be surprisingly slow and expensive. Because of how the data was stored, Snowflake had to read far more than the days you asked for. You paid for that in query time and credits.

Bridging the AI context gap: Why your IDE needs a platform contract

Hosting an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server on Upsun lets AI IDEs like Cursor, Codex, Claude Code and Windsurf reach real infrastructure context (database schemas, service logs, environment variables), closing the gap between local coding assistants and your cloud environment.

Why multicloud has become a governance decision

For most IT leaders, multicloud didn't arrive as a decision. It arrived as a fait accompli. A team chose AWS for one workload. Azure came in through a Microsoft enterprise agreement. A SaaS acquisition brought its own cloud dependencies. A DR requirement pointed to a second region with a different provider. Nobody declared a multicloud strategy; the organization just became one. Today, 87% of organizations run a multicloud strategy, balancing an average of 2.6 public cloud providers simultaneously.

Native, full-stack autoscaling on Upsun: PostgreSQL and MariaDB read replicas now autoscale

Application autoscaling has existed for years. Database autoscaling has lagged behind. Today, that changes on Upsun. Managed PostgreSQL and MariaDB read replicas now autoscale, joining worker autoscaling in production since March 2026. Apps, workers, and managed databases all autoscalead replicas saturate first, connection pools max, someone getse on one platform - natively, without a third-party database engine or a Kubernetes layer to operate. Three operational headaches just disappeared.