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Webinar Recap: 3 Cost Allocation Mistakes FinOps Teams Can Avoid

Oct 31, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
In a webinar hosted by CloudZero on Oct. 30, 2025, Larry Advey, Director of Cloud Platform and FinOps and a respected voice in the FinOps community, joined Umesh Rao to deliver a practical session on cloud cost allocation. The session, titled Three Allocation Mistakes Most FinOps Teams Make, unpacked hard-earned lessons and offered a guided tour of CloudZero’s new Dimension Studio.
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AWS Fargate Alternatives: Comparing Serverless Container Options

Oct 31, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Imagine you have an API service composed of multiple microservices. Traffic fluctuates — sometimes light, sometimes spiking. Without Fargate, you’d have to manage EC2 instances, autoscaling, patching, and more. With Fargate, you define each microservice as a task, setting the CPU/memory, container image, network rules, and AWS schedules, and then run them as needed. The result: faster deployment, lower ops overhead, and smooth scaling.
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Store and search logs at petabyte scale in your own infrastructure with Datadog CloudPrem

Oct 31, 2025 By François Massot In Datadog
As AI workloads and cloud-native applications expand, organizations are generating more log data than ever. Each service, container, and model inference produces continuous telemetry that must be stored, secured, and analyzed. As telemetry grows more complex, teams must balance full visibility with new retention and residency needs.
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Validating chaos experiments with GCP Cloud Monitoring probes

Oct 31, 2025 By Ashutosh Bhadauriya In Harness
GCP Cloud Monitoring probe let you transform your existing GCP metrics into automated pass/fail validation for chaos experiments, eliminating subjective observation in favor of objective measurement. With flexible authentication options (workload identity or service account keys) and PromQL query support, you can validate infrastructure performance against defined thresholds during controlled failure scenarios.
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AWS Outage Shows Why UK Businesses Can't Afford Single-Cloud Dependency

AWS Outage Shows Why UK Businesses Can't Afford Single-Cloud Dependency

Oct 30, 2025 By Mike Hoy In Pulsant
The impact of the AWS outage has reminded many businesses of the risk for businesses that rely heavily on centralised cloud infrastructure, especially when so many essential services are concentrated in a single region. But at the wider, industry level, this is also a warning around the widespread lack of contingency planning for cloud failures. Reactive response must give way to strategically planned disaster recovery protocols that engenders a resilient cloud market.
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Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?

Oct 30, 2025 By Civo In Civo
Are "free" cloud credits holding your business back? Join us for an online webinar as we explore the hidden risks associated with cloud credits and the impact they have on businesses. Our speakers, Simon Hansford, Chief Commercial Officer at Civo, and James Marks, Founder of Canopy, will share their knowledge and experience on this critical topic. This webinar is based on our recent whitepaper, which examines the "cloud credit trap" and its far-reaching implications for organizations.
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Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?

Oct 30, 2025 By Emma Kinsey-Coates In Civo
“Free" cloud credits, they sound like a gift, but they often come with hidden costs and an agenda: lock-in. The illusion of a cost-saving measure can quickly become a vendor-specific trap, forcing costly migrations or leaving your business overpaying for cloud services. This issue, which the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) estimates contributes to £430M of annual over-payments in the UK alone, is what we call the "cloud credit trap.".
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Galileo

FinOps for Hybrid IT: Extending Visibility Beyond the Cloud

Oct 29, 2025 By Marie Ashway In Galileo
Controlling IT spend used to mean managing cloud invoices. Today, it’s far more complex. Modern enterprises run workloads across multiple platforms — cloud, virtualized, and on-premises — each with its own cost structures and dependencies. That’s why FinOps for hybrid IT has become essential. Extending FinOps principles beyond cloud services enables organizations to see how every part of the infrastructure contributes to cost, efficiency, and business value.
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statusgator

Azure status integration is here!

Oct 29, 2025 By Valeria Kurolapova In StatusGator
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Azure status integration, bringing Microsoft Azure’s real-time service health and incident data directly into your StatusGator dashboard and status page. With this new integration, StatusGator automatically imports Azure outages and service status updates from your Azure subscription — giving you a complete, centralized view of your cloud infrastructure alongside every other service you monitor.
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cloudzero

CEO Diaries: Not All AI Talent Is Alike

Oct 29, 2025 By Phil Pergola In CloudZero
If Meta’s (now halted) nine-figure AI talent poaching scheme was any indication, the AI talent market is pretty frothy. The number of AI-related job postings has roughly tripled since 2019, and the average salary has more than doubled (Bain). The race is on for companies to find the fastest, most sustainable routes to AI-driven business value; all companies, but especially software companies, are hotly pursuing racers. But despite what Zuckerberg & Co.
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Azure Cost Optimization: Best Practices for Cloud Solution Providers

Oct 29, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this episode, we explore practical Azure cost management strategies tailored for Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). The conversation dives into cost visibility, optimization techniques, and billing transparency, helping CSPs improve margins and deliver more value to their customers. Featuring experts from West Coast, a leading CSP, including James Reed (Azure Sales Manager) and Mitchell G. (Azure Sales Specialist), along with Mike Stevenson, the discussion highlights real-world insights from the partner ecosystem.
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Whose Fault Is It When the Cloud Fails? Does It Matter?

Oct 29, 2025 By Jeremy Rossbach In Broadcom
On Monday, October 20th, a significant portion of the digital services we use every day became inaccessible. For hours, banking, communication, and entertainment applications were unavailable. The root cause was later identified as a major outage within Amazon Web Services (AWS), the infrastructure that powers a vast number of online services. The initial response for any business affected by such an event is a frantic effort to diagnose the problem. Is it our application? Is our network down?
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Open Source Cloud Orchestration Tools Compared

Oct 29, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Before 2011, cloud infrastructure was still new. AWS had launched EC2 and S3 in 2006. But to deploy applications, engineers had to manually spin up servers, configure storage, and set up networking — all by hand or with custom scripts. There were early configuration management tools, such as Chef and Puppet, but those didn’t offer full cloud orchestration. Then in 2011, AWS launched AWS CloudFormation as the first major orchestration tool.
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How FinTech Is Pushing the Boundaries of Intelligent Operations

How FinTech Is Pushing the Boundaries of Intelligent Operations

Oct 29, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In the last decade, the financial technology (FinTech) industry has evolved from a promising disruptor to a powerful force reshaping global business operations. What began as a wave of startups offering digital payments and online banking has now transformed into a full-fledged ecosystem of automation, data intelligence, and artificial decision-making.
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cloudzero

The CFO's Guide To Accurate Cost Allocation

Oct 28, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Every finance team knows this pain. The cloud bill continues to grow, but the numbers don’t quite add up. Engineering swears their usage reports are accurate. But when you ask, “Which product or customer drove last month’s 18% cost increase?” things go quiet. That silence usually means one thing. Inaccurate cost allocation. Native cloud cost allocation tools from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud can help. However, they often stop at the average this or average that layer.
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How FOCUS Is Shaping The Next Era Of Cloud Cost Optimization

Oct 28, 2025 By Larry Advey In CloudZero
SaaS, AI, and technology spending today looks like a more intense version of how it was a decade ago when everyone first migrated to the cloud. The mentality was and, at some companies, still is to build build build and worry about controlling expenditures and optimizing costs later. We’re seeing astronomical amounts of money being raised by brand-new AI businesses that barely even existed a couple of years ago. More than $145 billion has been raised for U.S.
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Comparing Ways to Connect to AWS

Oct 28, 2025 By Dan Pfyl In Megaport
Not sure how to connect to this leading cloud provider? Compare options to pick the best one for your business. Curious about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the best ways to connect? AWS is a hybrid cloud provider with customized, scalable, cloud-based packages. These encompass: Whether you’re part of a multinational corporation or a small startup, you can choose among various AWS services to meet your needs.
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One Box, One Region: Private Cloud Ready on Demand

Oct 28, 2025 By Civo In Civo
We’ve built a private‑cloud that feels exactly like a public‑cloud region, as Civo CTO Dinesh Majrekar puts it, it all starts with a conversation. Tell us what you need, we order the hardware, it ships, you plug it in, and the cloud is live in no time. No sprawling projects, no endless paperwork, just a really‑really simple flow that turns a handful of commodity servers into a sovereign Civo region.
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Internxt

Dropbox vs Google Drive: What is the Best Cloud Storage Service?

Oct 27, 2025 By Joe Tobin In Internxt
When you hear the words cloud storage, you usually think of Google Drive and Dropbox. Why? Because they are huge and old, and they spend millions (maybe billions) trying to ensure you never forget who they are. So, which one of the old tech nobility is better? Is Google Drive or Dropbox cheaper? Which one is the better option for you? Or is there a better and more private cloud sternative you could choose instead?
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cloudzero

Chargeback Vs. Showback: Choosing The Right Cost Allocation Model For FinOps

Oct 27, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
One of the most challenging aspects of running a SaaS business is dealing with highly variable costs. Every service you provide needs resources, and the demand for those resources fluctuates. Just when you think you’ve got this quarter’s budget nailed down, an engineer makes a restructuring decision or a new feature launch exceeds expectations (or falls flat). Suddenly, your bill looks totally different than what you were expecting.
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The hidden costs of "free" cloud credits: A wake-up call for businesses

Oct 27, 2025 By Emma Stewart-Oram In Civo
To read the full findings from this research, visit our whitepaper "Decoding Cloud Credits" by clicking here. The allure of "free" cloud credits can be tempting, but beneath the surface lies a complex web of risks and consequences that can ultimately lock businesses into costly and restrictive cloud ecosystems. Our latest whitepaper, "Decoding Cloud Credits", explores the true costs of these promotional offers and the implications for businesses.
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cloudzero

EKS Pricing And Cost Optimization (2025 Guide)

Oct 24, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
AWS did not intend to build Amazon EKS; it simply had to. Kubernetes adoption beamed light years ahead of AWS’s own managed container orchestration service. This forced AWS to develop a managed service to accommodate customers who wanted to use upstream Kubernetes but did not want to manage it themselves. As soon as AWS got around to it, it knocked the Kubernetes-based container management service out of the park. Not only is Amazon EKS simpler than Kubernetes, but EKS pricing may also be worth it.
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cloudzero

Cultural ROI In FinOps: People Drive Pivots

Oct 23, 2025 By Thalia Elie In CloudZero
When I ask clients to picture cloud cost optimization, they think dashboards, policies, maybe a clever right-sizing purchase. What they don’t picture? Meetings. Misunderstandings. Mistrust. To avoid FinOps failures, we need a new starting line; one that gets to the root of spend misalignment.
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From Code To Clicks: A Visual Way To Build Dimensions In CloudZero

Oct 23, 2025 By David Aponovich In CloudZero
In early October, we launched Dimension Studio, a new visual editor for engineers and others that brings point-and-click simplicity to the same powerful, precise allocation engine CloudZero is known for. Before that, when CloudZero users built cloud cost allocations, they got it from our YAML-based CostFormation engine, a code-driven way to describe how cloud and AI costs roll up to products, customers, or teams.
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site24x7

How to solve authentication failures when you have an Azure setup

Oct 23, 2025 By Geoffrin Edwin In Site24x7
It is not just your business. Enterprises worldwide face recurring technical issues related to authentication failures and access problems. These errors often pop up, especially in scenarios with service connection setups, pod/start failures, or integration issues. Most of the time, these errors indicated failed deployments, pods failing to pull images, or intermittent authentication/access errors.
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pulsant

Single-Cloud Dependency Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

Oct 23, 2025 By Mike Hoy In Pulsant
The impact of the AWS outage has reminded many businesses of the risk for businesses that rely heavily on centralised cloud infrastructure, especially when so many essential services are concentrated in a single region. But at the wider industry level, this is also a warning around the widespread lack of contingency planning for cloud failures. Reactive response must give way to strategically planned disaster recovery protocols that engender a resilient cloud market.
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Optimizing GPU Efficiency and AI Costs with Pepperdata

Oct 23, 2025 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
As AI workloads explode, platform owners face an increasingly common challenge: a massive gap between GPU demand and supply. Pending workloads, idle GPUs, and rising costs make it harder than ever to scale AI efficiently. In this video, we explore how Pepperdata.ai helps enterprises regain control of their GPU environments with two breakthrough solutions: Demand Optimization – Get granular visibility into GPU usage across your entire infrastructure. Identify inefficiencies, balance supply and demand, and uncover hidden capacity.
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AI Agent for Cloud Cost Optimization: From Blind Spots to Smarter Spend

Oct 23, 2025 By Sayali Pagrut In Digitate
Cloud has become the backbone of digital enterprises, but managing its cost footprint is proving increasingly difficult. With multiple providers, diverse pricing models, and ever-changing workloads, organizations often find themselves facing spend leakage and unanticipated overruns. The stakes are high—not only in terms of IT budgets but also in ensuring cloud resources deliver maximum business value.
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Data Centre Colocation: What UK Businesses Need to Know About Costs

Data Centre Colocation: What UK Businesses Need to Know About Costs

Oct 22, 2025 By Pulsant In Pulsant
As more UK companies go digital, many are missing critical cost factors when choosing colocation data centres, with location, power bills and regulatory compliance proving far more expensive than many anticipate. With insights from Pulsant, a digital edge infrastructure provider, we take a look at true cost of colocation.
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cloudzero

Kubernetes For AI: The CTO's Guide

Oct 22, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Kubernetes began as a tool to help teams keep thousands of microservices running without falling apart. It gave them a way to schedule workloads, recover from failures, and scale services without constant firefighting. Now, AI has brought back the same chaos, only magnified. Training jobs sprawl across GPUs. Inference traffic spikes without warning. Pipelines stretch across clusters, clouds, and compliance boundaries. Left unchecked, it can break both your workload and cloud budget.
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Incident.io

Service disruption on October 20, 2025

Oct 22, 2025 By Article In Incident.io
When the internet goes down, our primary job is to help everyone get back up, as fast as possible. Of the almost half a million incidents we've helped our customers solve, there are some which stand out for both their scale and impact. One of these happened on Monday, October 20, when AWS had a widely covered major outage in their us-east-1 region, from 07:11 to 10:53 UTC. We’re hosted in multiple regions of Google Cloud and so the majority of our product was unaffected by the outage.
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Internxt

The Best Cloud Storage Deals of Black Friday 2025

Oct 21, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
Looking for the best cloud storage deals? You’re in the right place, and since Black Friday is just around the corner, now is the perfect time. This time of year, companies offer their biggest deals on everything from tech gadgets, beauty, video games, and much more. But for cloud storage, we’ve got you covered with the best cloud storage deals of the year, allowing you to store, backup, sync, and share your files with friends, family, or colleagues.
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datadog

Introducing Updog.ai: Real-time provider status from Datadog

Oct 21, 2025 By Brianne Bujnowski In Datadog
When external SaaS providers or cloud services degrade or go down, engineers often find themselves wondering if the issue they're encountering is local or more widespread. The answers they find are usually slow to surface, limited in detail, or entirely dependent on the provider's updates. Vendor-controlled status pages and third-party aggregators don’t provide the timely, independent visibility that's necessary to quickly and accurately identify the root cause of slowdowns.
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SOC vs. the Clock: The New Cybersecurity Frontlines

Oct 21, 2025 By N-able In N-able
Cloud attacks now account for over half of all threats — and most businesses still aren’t ready. In this conversation, Scott from N-able and Zac from First Technology Group unpack the latest SOC threat intelligence, the rise of AI in cyber defence, and why layered security is more critical than ever. What you’ll learn: If you manage IT, security, or risk, this is your insider’s view into what’s coming — and how to prepare.
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The Hidden Risk of DNS - Lessons from the AWS Outage & Why You Need DNS Spy Monitoring NOW

Oct 21, 2025 By DNS Spy In DNS Spy
On October 20, 2025, much of the internet came to a halt. Apps wouldn’t load. Payments failed. Cloud dashboards went dark. From Fortnite to Alexa, Snapchat, and countless business platforms, users across the world were suddenly offline — all because DNS broke inside Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) US-East-1 region.
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Build Vs. Buy? Why Creating Your Own Cost Management Platform Is Futile

Oct 21, 2025 By Adam Tankanow In CloudZero
The siren song of building a custom, internal cloud cost management platform is enticing. Many brilliant engineering teams are convinced they can come up with a bespoke solution that perfectly fits their needs. They look at their company’s unique infrastructure and decide they can DIY cost management without having to rely on an external vendor. Believe me, I get the temptation.
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Amazon Isn't Eating Its Own DNS Dog Food

Oct 21, 2025 By Matt Rideout In DNS Check
On October 19-20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage (AWS status) affecting its US-EAST-1 region in northern Virginia. The root cause was DNS resolution failures for DynamoDB’s API endpoints, which cascaded across AWS’s interconnected services, disrupting major platforms including Snapchat, McDonald’s, Disney+, Roblox, Coinbas, Reddit, and Amazon’s own services.
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Sustainable Cloud Computing in the UK: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future

Oct 21, 2025 By Civo In Civo
The tech industry's environmental impact is a growing concern, but can collaboration and innovation drive sustainability? At Civo Navigate London 2025, Regent Lee, Dinesh Majrekar, Liam McTague, and Simon Morris explored the challenges and opportunities of reducing emissions in the tech industry.
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When AWS Goes Down: What It Means For Your Cloud Costs

Oct 20, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
A global outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) did more than knock popular apps offline. It laid bare the cost risks embedded in many cloud architectures. As services fail, the hidden costs of high availability, from redundancy planning to recovery operations, often multiply. For cloud cost leaders, this isn’t an issue of uptime; it’s a visibility and budget-shock issue. It’s a key reminder that architecting for resilience involves difficult trade-offs.
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PagerDuty Joins AWS QuickSuite: Connect Your Incident Management with 1,000+ Applications

Oct 20, 2025 By PagerDuty In PagerDuty
Today, we’re announcing that PagerDuty is now available in AWS QuickSuite through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This means PagerDuty’s incident management capabilities can now connect with the 1,000+ applications and data sources that QuickSuite integrates with, from AWS services to enterprise SaaS platforms, all accessible through natural language.
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AWS Outage: How do you prepare for the failure of your own safety net?

Oct 20, 2025 By Denton Chikura In Catchpoint
When AWS’s massive outage struck, it didn’t just take down cloud services, apps, and enterprise platforms. It also knocked out many of the monitoring systems organizations depend on for real-time answers. Observability companies, including Datadog, New Relic, Checkly, Dynatrace, SpeedCurve, and Splunk Observability, lost visibility or functionality precisely when organizations needed them most.
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Data Sovereignty in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Kelsey Hightower and Mark Boost

Oct 20, 2025 By Civo In Civo
Join Kelsey Hightower and Mark Boost at Civo Navigate London as they discuss sovereignty in the context of AI and cloud computing. The conversation highlights the need for a more nuanced approach to cloud computing, one that balances the benefits of public cloud with the need for control and sovereignty. The discussion emphasizes the importance of open protocols and the role of the community in driving innovation, and notes that the adoption of AI workloads is driving a shift towards more decentralized and sovereign cloud architectures.
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Kubernetes Security Guide: Risks, Strategies, And Tools

Oct 17, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
In 2018, attackers gained access to Tesla’s AWS cloud environment through an unprotected Kubernetes console (admin console). Because it lacked proper authentication, the hackers could see and control cluster resources. Once inside, they deployed new pods running cryptocurrency mining software, using Tesla’s compute power for profit. During the breach, the attackers also uncovered credentials stored in the cluster.
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sumologic

25 Sumo Logic updates to better monitor and secure your Azure environments

Oct 16, 2025 By Margaret Selid In Sumo Logic
If you manage workloads across multiple clouds, you know how easy it is for critical alerts or performance issues to get lost in the noise. Switching between consoles, correlating logs, and tracking metrics across platforms can slow down troubleshooting, delaying incident resolution and increasing risk of missing critical alerts.
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InfluxDB 3 on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB: Real-Time Performance, Now Fully Managed on AWS

Oct 16, 2025 By Evan Kaplan In InfluxData
Today, we’re announcing a major milestone for developers building the next generation of intelligent, real-time systems: InfluxDB 3 is available on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, now the default time series database offered directly in the AWS Management Console. This brings InfluxDB 3, our next-generation time series database, directly into the AWS ecosystem for the first time.
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Unlocking the Power of Sovereign Cloud: Insights from Civo Navigate London

Oct 16, 2025 By Emma Stewart-Oram In Civo
As organizations increasingly rely on cloud computing to drive their businesses forward, a critical question arises: what happens when the cloud is no longer a trusted partner? This was a key theme explored at Civo Navigate London 2025, where Civo's leadership team shared their insights on the future of cloud computing and the growing importance of sovereign cloud solutions.
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cloudzero

Can You Afford To Build Your Own Cloud Cost Optimization Platform?

Oct 16, 2025 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero
So you’ve run into cloud cost challenges — incomplete visibility, overspending, thinning margins — and you’re wondering whether you have what it takes to build a cloud cost optimization platform in-house. It’s a responsible question (one that the FinOps Foundation even advises you to ask). Be warned: Building your own cloud cost optimization platform seems cheaper than adding another SaaS subscription. It’s not.
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Console Connect strengthens Google Cloud connectivity with new global locations

Oct 15, 2025 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
Console Connect has expanded its cloud ecosystem with four additional Google Cloud locations, bringing our total to 69 locations worldwide. This growth across three continents gives customers even more options to directly and securely connect to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) from strategic data centre hubs in key international markets, helping enterprises simplify and scale their direct access to GCP wherever they operate. New GCP locations include.
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cloudzero

The Anti-Zombie, Battle-Tested Guide To AI FinOps: 10 Insights

Oct 15, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
When CloudZero’s CTO Erik Peterson joined the FinOps Weekly podcast in October 2025, he didn’t hold back. Instead of going on about the usual best practices of AI cost optimization, he posed challenges to how we approach AI spending. From “zombie AI experiments” eating your budget to why you should stop apologizing for using AI, these 10 insights from the podcast are worth considering in how we approach AI FinOps. (Watch the full podcast below and keep reading for more!)
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What Are Kubernetes Nodes? Everything You Need To Know

Oct 15, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
A key advantage of Kubernetes for container management is its high scalability. Kubernetes nodes are directly involved in this, and they can significantly impact your efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and service availability. This guide provides an in-depth look at Kubernetes nodes, including types of nodes and operational best practices.
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Optimize Cloud Costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Oct 14, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Datadog Cloud Cost Management unifies observability and cost data so engineering and FinOps teams can drive efficiency together. In this demo, see how you can: Allocate cloud costs across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, and SaaS providers with precision Empower engineers by surfacing costs in their daily workflows Automate recommendations to accelerate optimization Monitor your daily Datadog costs - at no additional charge.
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What Is SolarWinds, And Should You Use It?

Oct 14, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Downtime is brutally expensive and damaging. Enterprises can lose about $9,000 every minute systems are down, while smaller businesses lose hundreds of dollars per minute. A single outage can often cost over $100,000, and nearly a third of companies lose customers due to downtime. That’s why many organizations turn to platforms like SolarWinds to maintain reliable systems and minimize the risk of costly disruptions.
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Could AI Turn Back The Clock On IT Departments?

Oct 14, 2025 By Phil Pergola In CloudZero
I recently wrote about the impending SaaS crisis, driven by companies’ newfound ability to use AI to build software they used to have to buy. I predicted this phenomenon would make it even harder for SaaS vendors to drive growth, and that elite SaaS margins would fall from the mid-70s to the mid-60s as companies leaned more into their data and AI.
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Internxt

Google Photos vs Google Drive: What's the Difference?

Oct 14, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
When it comes to storing your files or photos online, the number of choices can be overwhelming. To make things more confusing, some services focus on cloud storage and photos, and others offer both, such as Google Photos and Google Drive. But what’s the difference? Although both appear to be the same, they have some differences based on whether you need photo or file storage. Both have advantages and features to meet your needs as a photographer or for general cloud storage.
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cloudzero

10+ Continuous Testing Tools To Help You Ship Quality Software

Oct 13, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
In July 2024, CrowdStrike — one of the world’s top cybersecurity companies — shipped a minor configuration update to its Windows security product. Within minutes, airlines, banks, hospitals, and retailers worldwide began crashing. The update wasn’t new code. It was a routine content file that slipped through with a bug in its safety checks. When Windows machines loaded it, the agent hit an out-of-bounds memory error and crashed. Devices blue-screened and got stuck in reboot loops.
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pulsant

Cloud vs Colocation: strategic infrastructure choices for long-term value

Oct 13, 2025 By Pulsant In Pulsant
Organisations are no longer limited to running everything in-house. The real question is where different workloads should sit to deliver the best long-term results. For many, that means weighing up cloud vs colocation. Both offer advantages over traditional infrastructure but serve different aims. Cloud makes it simple to scale and launch new services, while colocation provides predictable costs, direct control, and stronger assurance for compliance.
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Internxt

Best Black Friday Deals and Discounts You Don't Want To Miss in 2025

Oct 13, 2025 By Joe Tobin In Internxt
Wondering what's the big deal with Black Friday? And why does every business on earth seem to be obsessed with the quasi-holiday? Or are you just looking for great deals? Black Friday has become a sort of global cultural institution. Everyone knows about it, some look forward to it, and a few go crazy for the big day. It may be hard to believe, but Black Friday hasn't always been a thing, and it's actually a relatively recent development.
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cloudzero

What Is Cloud Monitoring? Everything You Need To Know

Oct 10, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Cloud computing offers several undeniable benefits to businesses. Some of the biggest ones are agility, cost savings, data recovery, and developing new apps and services to meet changing customer needs. Despite these benefits, the cloud can be complex, demand specialized skills, and require companies to follow up-to-date cloud security best practices. Why?
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The Performance & Cloud Pain Point | Unlocking SD-WAN's True Role in Your Digital Transformation

Oct 10, 2025 By PCCW Global In Console Connect
You've invested in high-quality internet, but your cloud apps are still lagging. The problem might not be your connection, but the path your data takes to get there. Discover how SD-WAN intelligently routes traffic to prioritise critical applications, ensuring a seamless user experience for your distributed workforce. Curious about how SD-WAN can address cloud performance challenges?
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Bridging the Gap Between Finance & Engineering: The Harness Playbook

Oct 10, 2025 By Kelsey Rosen In Harness
Most cloud waste isn’t technical, it’s organizational. Harness brings finance and engineering together with FinOps practices that connect spend to outcomes, not blame. The result: 30%+ savings and alignment that scales. In too many cloud organizations, finance and engineering operate like two planets in orbit. Finance speaks in forecasts, budgets, billing codes. Engineering speaks in uptime, latency, error rates. The result?
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cloudzero

Cloud Cost Allocation Requires Both Ease And Power

Oct 9, 2025 By Ben Austin In CloudZero
From the time I joined CloudZero almost two years ago, one thing was unmistakably clear: the team here had built the most powerful cost allocation engine in the FinOps industry. It was also clear that this power came with something of a tradeoff. While engineers and technical FinOps practitioners loved what our YAML-based CostFormation engine could do, the experience wasn’t always simple for non-technical people getting their hands on the product for the first time.
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cloudzero

The Challenges Of Allocation: Why Your Cloud Cost Dashboards Fail When You Need Them Most

Oct 9, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Your CFO just asked why cloud costs jumped 40% last quarter. You pull up your dashboards, confident in your tagging strategy, until you realize 30% of your spend is labeled ‘unallocated’. This is the moment every FinOps team dreads. It reveals a hidden complexity that even mature organizations struggle with: the challenge of accurately allocating cloud costs in a way that’s both granular enough to be actionable and trusted enough to drive decisions.
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cloudzero

Why Cloud Managed Data Center Services Are Having A Moment

Oct 8, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
The obituary for the data center was written too soon. While the cloud dominates today’s IT headlines, traditional infrastructure hasn’t disappeared. It is evolving. Enterprises still rely on data centers for control, compliance, and reliability. However, they are increasingly needing the agility, scalability, and cost visibility that the cloud promises. Cloud managed data center services are bridging this gap.
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Why a Cyber Fusion Center Is Essential for Cloud-First and Remote Work Environments

Why a Cyber Fusion Center Is Essential for Cloud-First and Remote Work Environments

Oct 8, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A cyber fusion center brings together security operations, threat intelligence, and incident response under one roof. Instead of teams working in silos, it encourages constant collaboration between analysts, engineers, and business units. This model shifts security from a reactive approach to a proactive one, anticipating risks before they spiral out of control.
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Internxt

iCloud vs Google Drive: Which One Should You Choose?

Oct 7, 2025 By Cadi Silla In Internxt
Two of the most well-known brands in the cloud storage market are iCloud and Google Drive. This article will explore the "big" two services regarding price, storage capacity, features, security, privacy concerns, integration with other services, user interface, and pros and cons. By the end, you will better understand which cloud storage service is best for you. We already covered Google vs Microsoft in a previous article, which you can check out below.
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AWS CloudFormation Pricing Breakdown (And How To Save)

Oct 7, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Nearly every industry today uses AWS for different services. Developers, cloud architects, DevOps engineers, and IT teams all use it to provision servers, databases, and storage. However, doing this service by service and then wiring them together can get messy. That’s where AWS CloudFormation comes in to save time, enforce consistency, and lower the risk of misconfigurations. But beyond simplifying infrastructure management, one big question remains: at what cost?
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Introducing Dimension Studio: Easier, Faster Cost Allocation In CloudZero

Oct 7, 2025 By Erik Peterson In CloudZero
Today, we’re making CloudZero even better with the launch of Dimension Studio, a major evolution in how CloudZero customers create and manage Dimensions — customizable “lenses” that allocate cloud and AI spend to relevant categories like products, features, teams, or customers, without relying on resource tags. At CloudZero, our mission has always been to help organizations make sense of their cloud and AI spend.
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How we use Datadog to get comprehensive, fine-grained visibility into our email delivery system

Oct 7, 2025 By Alexa Liaskovski In Datadog
Visibility into email performance is indispensable to any organization that counts on its ability to reach people through their inboxes, including Datadog. SREs, FinOps, and many other teams rely on email as a critical channel for communications from our platform, including monitor alerts, usage reports, and service account notifications. At Datadog, we depend on the visibility provided by our integrations for Mailgun, SendGrid, and Amazon SES to optimize our email performance and ensure deliverability.
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Private Cloud: The Future of Cloud Sovereignty

Oct 7, 2025 By Alexander Mattoni In Cycle
For a long time, public cloud has been the default answer to scaling infrastructure, but it's not the only path forward. As more teams weigh the risks of vendor lock-in, data residency, and dependence on US-based providers, the conversation around private cloud has taken on new urgency. However, building on private infrastructure doesn't have to mean sacrificing flexibility.
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The Rule Of 40: How To Calculate And Use It For SaaS

Oct 3, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Many SaaS businesses prioritize customer acquisition and retention over increasing gross margins, particularly during the startup and scale-up stages. It makes sense. A company can accelerate its revenue growth by acquiring and retaining more new customers, rather than simply selling more to existing ones. Yet, here’s the thing. Revenue growth measures the increase in the amount of money a business earns from sales.
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The Hidden Cost of Running Cloud-Hosted SD-WAN for IaaS

Oct 3, 2025 By Matt Madawi In Megaport
There are three common ways to connect your branch locations to the cloud. We break down the benefits and limitations of each. Many enterprises are executing a strategy of cloud services first, followed by application modernization – including SD-WAN. Moving toward a cloud-native architecture using containerization, microservices, or serverless architectures like SD-WAN can lower costs over time, increase scalability, reduce development cycles, and speed up time to market.
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Cloud Microservices Monitoring on AWS and Azure with OpenTelemetry

Oct 2, 2025 By Alexandr Bandurchin In Uptrace
Your checkout flow starts in an AWS Lambda function, calls a payment service running on EKS, then triggers notifications through Azure Functions. Three different compute platforms, two cloud providers, one distributed trace that you can't see. Cloud providers want you to use their native monitoring tools. AWS pushes X-Ray and CloudWatch. Azure promotes Application Insights and Azure Monitor. These tools work well within their ecosystems but lock you into vendor-specific implementations.
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A Simple Explanation of How to Go from Vulnerability Management to CTEM Cybersecurity In 2026

A Simple Explanation of How to Go from Vulnerability Management to CTEM Cybersecurity In 2026

Oct 2, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a structured framework for identifying, assessing, and reducing security exposures across an organization's entire attack surface. Unlike traditional vulnerability management, which focuses on known CVEs and periodic scans, CTEM provides ongoing visibility into real-world threats and enables security teams to prioritize risks based on actual exposure.
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Why Now Is The Time To Put In A 2026 Budget Request For Cost Management Software

Oct 1, 2025 By Emily Allen In CloudZero
As the Senior Manager of Finance & Accounting here at CloudZero, and with a career in FP&A that includes tenures at large public companies, I’ve spent a significant amount of time observing the interactions between the folks who plan the company’s budget and those who spend it. While engineering and operations teams focus on the execution side, my team ensures that the company has the resources required to make each endeavor a success.
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Best Practices for Data Centre Migration A Risk-Aware Guide for IT Leaders

Oct 1, 2025 By Pulsant In Pulsant
When a data centre migration is executed well, it enables growth and strengthens resilience. When it is not, the consequences are immediate: service downtime, compliance breaches, and operational disruption that affects both clients and internal teams. For IT leaders, the pressure lies in modernising infrastructure without compromising continuity.
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