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Stop Manual Checks: Automating DORA Compliance for Cloud Dependencies

Financial services organizations face increasing pressure to comply with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) while managing complex cloud infrastructures. Manual compliance checks for third-party dependencies are no longer sustainable. This guide explores how to automate DORA third-party risk management, ensuring continuous compliance without the overhead of manual processes.

How to Reduce Redundant Data to Save on Cloud Storage Costs

With more and more business organizations adopting cloud storage to handle their data, the problem of redundancy or duplication of files has become of great concern. Duplicated information does not only eat up the precious storage space but also increases expenditure and lowers productivity. The reason why companies end up paying to store files that they do not require is because duplication of files over time occurs particularly when more than one team or department is doing a common project. Learning to detect and remove duplicate data is a key to the cost control and ability to manage data in general.

New Feature Friday: Cortex & AWS

Most teams treat AWS like a black box. Cortex turns the lights on. We now automatically ingest all your AWS resources—from Lambda to RDS—and map them to the services and teams that actually own them. Daily. Automatically. No spreadsheets. No guesswork. Scorecards help you enforce real standards (think: runtime upgrades, tagging hygiene, EOL migrations). Workflows help your engineers self-serve AWS resources without needing to be AWS experts.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 Multi-session Service Monitoring

In late 2023, Amazon introduced the ability to deliver AppStream 2.0 using Microsoft Windows Server OS rather than the desktop of the OS. This feature enables IT admins to host multiple end-user sessions on a single AppStream 2.0 instance, helping to make better use of instance resources.

How to Receive Cloud Outage Alerts in Microsoft Teams

Cloud outages like the recent ones at Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure, and AWS can have a significant impact on your business with downtime, lost revenue, and unhappy customers. They can also disrupt your team's ability to work effectively. To stay on top of such outages, your team needs to know about them in an easy and timely way. In this article, we will see how to integrate IncidentHub cloud outage alerts with Microsoft Teams.

Metrics That Matter In FinOps: Co-Create Value With Engineering And Finance Collaborations

FinOps thrives on clarity, and clarity is built on metrics. Metrics give engineering and finance a shared language to understand costs, evaluate trade-offs, and guide innovation. The most impactful metrics go beyond “how much are we spending?” and help us answer: When we measure these things, we stretch beyond tracking progress to fueling it.

Smooth Operator: The Role Of Autonomous FinOps In Cloud Cost Management

(Almost) everyone is using generative AI, and just as many aren’t seeing any benefits. Research firm Gartner calls it the “gen AI paradox” — nearly 80% of companies say they’ve invested in generative solutions, and the same number report no benefits to their bottom line. What’s more, 90% of projects are stuck in pilot mode; ready to take off, but just can’t get up to speed.