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FinOps In Action Playbook For Engineering Personas

Mar 19, 2026 By Thalia Elie In CloudZero
In 2025, many teams built strong FinOps foundations: These practices created visibility and control. Now it’s time to elevate. FinOps in Action is a three-part series focused on applying that foundation in real engineering scenarios. Each post highlights a different persona and shows how to move from visibility to operational discipline. Today, we focus on Engineering. Engineering teams influence cost through architecture decisions, scaling policies, and workload design.
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Amazon Lex Pricing in 2026 Explained (And Practical Cost Saving Tips to Use Immediately)

Mar 19, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
If your SaaS product handles 1 million chatbot interactions per month, Amazon Lex alone could cost between $4,000 and $7,500. That range assumes current Amazon Lex V2 pricing of about $0.00075 per text request and $0.004 per speech request. Multiply the requests by the rate, and you’re done. Or are you? Conversational AI services rarely behave that neatly in production — and that includes AWS Lex. Amazon Lex is AWS’s conversational AI service for building chatbots.
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Webinar Recap: Building The Finance Function For The Future

Mar 19, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Women leaders from CloudZero, Campfire, and Preql AI sat down to talk about what it actually takes to modernize finance in 2026 — AI spend, smarter tooling, and the skills that matter now for finance practitioners and executives looking to manage cloud and AI spend in a rapidly changing and unpredictable financial environment. On March 19, 2026, CloudZero and Campfire co-hosted a virtual panel in honor of International Women’s Month, called Building the Finance Function for the Future.
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The Future of UK Digital Infrastructure | Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland Interview

Mar 19, 2026 By PulsantUK In Pulsant
In the latest Platform Insight interview, Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland discusses Pulsant’s evolution into the only truly UK‑wide, interconnected data centre platform. The conversation with Nicola Hayes of @PlatformMarketsGroup explores the growing momentum behind edge and sovereign infrastructure, and why real‑world enterprise demand is shaping the next phase of AI. If you want to understand where the UK digital infrastructure landscape is heading – and why regional platforms matter more than ever – this is a must‑watch.
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How Your Office Printer Scanner Can Become a Workflow Automation Hub

How Your Office Printer Scanner Can Become a Workflow Automation Hub

Mar 19, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Modern business operations often move at the speed of software, yet physical documents remain a constant presence in the daily grind. Most teams view their hardware as a simple tool for reproduction or digital conversion. However, the true potential of these devices lies in their ability to act as a bridge between tangible paperwork and automated digital systems. When configured correctly, a standard piece of office equipment can trigger complex sequences that save hours of manual data entry.
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The Great Cloud Repatriation: Why UK Businesses Are Bringing Data Home

The Great Cloud Repatriation: Why UK Businesses Are Bringing Data Home

Mar 18, 2026 By Pulsant In Pulsant
More UK organisations are treating cloud location as a governance risk decision, because incidents and audits expose questions around jurisdiction, access and evidence. Recent research found that 87% of respondents plan to partially or fully move workloads away from the public cloud over the next two years, with 54% considering private cloud, 38% exploring greater reliance on their own data centres, and 36% assessing colocation.
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What Your EKS Flow Logs Aren't Telling You

Mar 18, 2026 By Phil DiCorpo In Tigera
If you’re running workloads on Amazon EKS, there’s a good chance you already have some form of network observability in place. VPC Flow Logs have been a staple of AWS networking for years, and AWS has since introduced Container Network Observability, a newer set of capabilities built on Amazon CloudWatch Network Flow Monitor, that adds pod-level visibility and a service map directly in the EKS console.
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Let's Tune Our AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Database

Mar 18, 2026 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate
In case you don't know the back story, in order for me to play with radios and label it "work," I've created a PostgreSQL database running on AWS Aurora. The db is fed from API calls to aprs.fi through Lambda functions on AWS. Some of the DDL & code is mine. Some is from Claude. Neither of us paid much attention to indexing when we were putting things together.
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Best Cloud Storage for Photos in 2026: Internxt vs Google Photos vs iCloud vs OneDrive vs Amazon Photos

Mar 18, 2026 By Mia Naumoska In Internxt
Most people end up with a photo storage service the same way they end up with a dentist: whatever was closest and easiest. Google Photos is already on Android. iCloud is already on iPhone. OneDrive comes with Microsoft 365. Amazon bundles unlimited photo storage into Prime. None of them are bad, but none of them made you read the fine print either. The fine print is access. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon all hold the encryption keys to your photos.
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