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Top 6 EC2 rightsizing recommendations that you can't ignore

Imagine a day at work where you realize that your team’s youngest developer has failed to kill a compute instance; the bill spikes and the budget is breached. Rightsizing recommendations would come to the rescue and play a crucial role in such situations by identifying underutilized, overutilized, or mismanaged resources and suggesting corrective actions.

Debugging performance issues in Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus is a critical messaging service for building scalable cloud applications, but performance bottlenecks can lead to delayed message processing, throttling, or even dropped messages. It is essential to identify and resolve these issues to maintain smooth application workflows and prevent downtime. This blog explores common Azure Service Bus performance problems, provides step-by-step debugging strategies, and highlights how proactive monitoring can prevent recurring issues.

Global View: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities for On-Premise

Managing a hybrid IT environment is more complex than ever, requiring real-time visibility, automation, and intelligent cost control across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Virtana’s latest innovations help organizations streamline operations, optimize costs, and enhance security, validating that every layer of IT—whether in the cloud or on-prem—operates at peak efficiency.

Container Observability: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities for Kubernetes & Windows

Managing containerized workloads and Windows environments requires more than just basic monitoring—it demands deep observability to prevent performance bottlenecks, optimize costs, and accelerate troubleshooting. Virtana’s latest Container Observability enhancements provide IT teams with greater control, visibility, and analytics across Kubernetes and Windows-based workloads.

Infrastructure Observability: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities

Modern IT environments are complex, spanning on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures. Without deep observability at every layer, performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and troubleshooting challenges can drain resources and impact business outcomes. Virtana’s latest Infrastructure Observability enhancements are designed to eliminate blind spots, automate performance tuning, and simplify IT operations.

AI On A Budget: Low-Cost Strategies For Running AI In The Cloud

AI costs can spiral out of control before you know it. One day you’re building an AI feature that promises to bring in a solid chunk of revenue for the company. The next day you’re obsessing over an astronomically high cloud bill that will significantly eat into your profits — or consume them entirely. To help you solve this problem, we brought in Jeremy Daly, Director of Research (and AI cost management guru) at CloudZero.

LightMesh + AWS: Secure Subnet Discovery and Unified IPAM at Scale

LightMesh now integrates with AWS, providing automated discovery and unified management of your cloud networking resources. This powerful integration eliminates fragmented visibility across VPCs and regions, giving you real-time insights into your entire AWS infrastructure through a single, intuitive platform.

2025 Redshift Pricing Guide: Cost Factors And Savings Tips

The Amazon Redshift data cloud provides a fast, secure, and widely accessible data warehouse solution. It is an ideal platform for performing complex analytics and processing large data sets. In addition to supporting multi-parallel processing (MPP), Redshift is also a type of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) database. Yet, one of Redshift’s main selling points is its cost-effectiveness over alternatives like Snowflake and BigQuery. Is this the case? What is the actual cost of Amazon Redshift?

Announcing Densify's Latest Release: Smarter Kubernetes Automation, Built for the Enterprise

To coincide with KubeCon Europe 2025, we’re excited to announce the latest release of Densify’s Kubernetes optimization engine, Kubex, which delivers full-stack resource management and seamless automation resource optimization at enterprise scale. This release delivers the advanced controls enterprises have been asking for—without sacrificing the intelligence and precision that sets Densify apart.