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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.

On July 16, 2026, AWS experienced a disruption in its CloudFront service, which affected a large number of websites and applications. The outage was caused by a configuration loading failure in CloudFront's VPC Origins feature. This was AWS's most widely-felt outage after last year's outage on October 20th, which caused widespread damage.

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.

The Kubex UI is a model of analytic depth and flexibility. You can break down your environment’s utilization, risks, and optimization potential in many ways. You can view more than 100 different properties for each container and many different graphs showing historical performance and identified trends.

Kubernetes efficiency metrics now work with infrastructure filters.

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.

General cloud storage and photo storage for photographers are similar in the sense that photos are stored in the cloud, but professional photographers have different requirements when choosing the best cloud storage for photographers.

Ford's competitors had the same electric motors he did. Most just swapped out the steam engine and kept the old factory layout, a costly mistake. Ford used the new tech to rebuild the plant around the flow of the car. Knowing how much power each machine drew, he knew his cost to produce a car, and made personal automobiles affordable for all.