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Anbox Cloud 1.29.0: what's new?

In this video, the Anbox team covers new features and changes in their latest 1.29.0 release: What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency. Tags: Trademark notice Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Anbox Cloud uses assets available through the Android Open Source Project.

What feels different about enterprise IT operations today compared to even 3-5 years ago?

Speed isn’t the problem. Speed without shared visibility is. AI compressed release cycles, multiplied dependencies, and pushed accountability to teams who no longer own the full stack. The result? Faster change. Slower resolution. Higher risk. This is why MTTR is moving the wrong way...and why observability has to evolve. : Amit Rathi.

The AI infrastructure gap: why agents fail on fragmented stacks

The initial hype of AI agents is hitting a hard reality: a clever prompt is not a production strategy. As organizations move from experimentation to operationalizing AI in 2026, a systemic bottleneck has emerged: It is not the model's intelligence; it is the model’s context and its access to the right tools. When an AI agent lacks access to live, grounded platform data, it guesses.

CloudZero's FinOps Cost-Per-Unit Glossary

This glossary is a bookmarkable reference for cost-per-unit metrics in FinOps unit economics. It’s designed for engineering, finance, and FinOps teams that need a shared language for understanding how cloud costs behave as usage, customers, and products scale. The terms are organized by category and include real-world context.

Simultaneous multi-cloud deployment to AWS and GCP with CircleCI

AWS recently experienced a significant outage. The outage took down major services, including parts of McDonald’s mobile ordering system, some Netflix features, and many other applications that relied solely on AWS infrastructure. This event perfectly illustrates why relying on just one cloud platform can be risky.

Top 6 Cloud Monitoring Challenges in Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Environments

Hybrid and multi-cloud monitoring breaks down when teams can’t connect signals to customer impact fast enough to act. Hybrid and multi-cloud sound simple: run some workloads in public cloud, keep some on-premises, and connect it all. But in practice, you’re managing dependencies across teams and systems, tools that don’t share context, and incidents that refuse to stay in one place.

AWS EC2 Vs. Azure VMs Vs. GCE: Understanding The Real Cost Of Cloud VMs

AWS EC2, Azure Virtual Machines, and Google Compute Engine (GCE) appear similar on paper but produce different bills due to how each provider prices capacity, discounts, idle time, and commitment terms. The same VM configuration can cost 20-40% more or less depending on which cloud you choose and how your workload runs. On paper, all three offer similar virtual machines. In reality, they price capacity, discounts, and idle time very differently.

Predict, compare, and reduce costs with our S3 cost calculator

Previously I have written about how useful public cloud storage can be when starting a new project without knowing how much data you will need to store. However, as datasets grow over time, the costs of public cloud storage can become overwhelming. This is where an on premise, or co-located, self-hosted storage system becomes advantageous: it provides the greatest range of benefits, including cost, performance, security, and data sovereignty.

AWS Data Exchange Guide: Use Cases, Pros, Cons, And Pricing

Third-party data now drives forecasting, analytics, and machine learning across modern cloud teams. But acquiring it has long meant custom contracts, delayed access, and limited visibility into how data costs scale inside analytics workflows. AWS Data Exchange reduces much of that friction by integrating third-party data into the AWS ecosystem.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 101: A Beginner's Guide To App Deployment On AWS

Imagine you want to launch an application without first building and managing the servers that run it. You write the code, pick how it should run, and then let a platform take care of the rest. That’s the core promise of AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In this snackable guide, you’ll understand AWS Elastic Beanstalk well enough to decide if it belongs in your AWS architecture.