SharePoint Preservation Hold Library Explained (2026)
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Preparing for cloud failures: Monitoring strategies for distributed hybrid infrastructure
When AWS experienced its recent outage, the ripple effect was immediate. Critical workloads slowed, dashboards went blank, and many teams realized multi-cloud isn't automatically resilient. Cloud-level failures are inevitable due to the interdependent components and complex IT architecture. The recent AWS disruption reminded many teams that the cloud isn't a magic uptime guarantee. Even the most mature providers can-and do-experience large-scale service interruptions.
What Is BigQuery? A Guide To How It Works And Costs
Data has exploded — and so have the challenges that come with it. Every click, transaction, and sensor ping generates mountains of data that traditional databases can’t handle. That’s why more than 94% of organizations now rely on cloud platforms, according to CloudZero’s 2025 cloud report. The goal isn’t just to store data, but rather, to make sense of it fast. And this is exactly where tools such as Google BigQuery step in.
Reliability lessons from the 2025 AWS DynamoDB outage
On October 19th and 20th, 2025, the AWS region US-EAST-1 suffered a massive outage. What started with a 3-hour Amazon DynamoDB outage from a DNS issue led to an Amazon EC2 outage that lasted an additional 12 hours before normal service was restored. Over the course of the outage, there were over 17 million outage reports as companies like Snapchat, Roblox, Amazon, Reddit, Venmo, and more were impacted.
Dropbox vs OneDrive 2025 Comparison
As more and more people rely on cloud storage to store and share their files, it becomes important to choose the right cloud storage service that suits your needs. However, when choosing which cloud storage is right for you, you may be asking yourself the following questions: For this article, we will answer all these questions and more. Plus, if you’re considering other providers, we will also cover other alternatives that offer the same cloud storage features and more.
How to Optimize Azure Costs and Improve Cloud Efficiency with FinOps
In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, Dustin Mullenix from KPMG talks about his role leading a FinOps team that handles Azure spend for KPMG's audit business. He shares how internal FinOps teams work with consulting groups, the challenges of Azure's service tiers like managed disks and SQL options, and the trade-offs between cost and performance. Dustin discusses how to handle cost changes, manage knowledge in a big company, this talk is useful for anyone dealing with cloud costs in a large setup.
Catch and remediate ECS issues faster with default monitors and the ECS Explorer
Organizations that run applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) often juggle signals across container and task metrics, logs, and events while they hunt for the change or condition that broke a deployment. This work adds operational overhead and extends incident timelines as teams switch between tools and manually correlate symptoms.
The High Cost of Vendor Lock-In in Cloud Computing and How to Avoid it
Cloud vendor lock-in threatens agility and raises costs. Discover the high price of proprietary services, egress fees, and technical entrenchment, plus the strategic roadmap to escape. Learn how embracing open standards, Kubernetes, and an exit strategy from day one ensures long-term flexibility and control.
5 Cost Levers To Consider When Adopting Amazon Bedrock
As companies race to ship AI features into production, FinOps teams everywhere are scrambling to keep up with the variability of their engineers’ new favorite toys. The rapid pace of AI experimentation is creating a new wave of unpredictable usage patterns and costs.
Top Cloud Cost News From October 2025
Last month was certainly eventful. (If you use AWS or Azure, you probably already know what we’re talking about). But in case you missed it, here are the must-see headlines from October 2025.