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Lessons from the October 2025 AWS DNS Outage

Oct 20, 2025 By Matt Rideout In DNS Check

Early on October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage affecting its US-EAST-1 region in northern Virginia. The root cause was DNS resolution failures for DynamoDB’s API endpoints, which cascaded across AWS’s interconnected services.

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PagerDuty Joins AWS QuickSuite: Connect Your Incident Management with 1,000+ Applications

Oct 20, 2025 By PagerDuty In PagerDuty

Today, we’re announcing that PagerDuty is now available in AWS QuickSuite through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This means PagerDuty’s incident management capabilities can now connect with the 1,000+ applications and data sources that QuickSuite integrates with, from AWS services to enterprise SaaS platforms, all accessible through natural language.

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AWS Outage: How do you prepare for the failure of your own safety net?

Oct 20, 2025 By Denton Chikura In Catchpoint

When AWS’s massive outage struck, it didn’t just take down cloud services, apps, and enterprise platforms. It also knocked out many of the monitoring systems organizations depend on for real-time answers. Observability companies, including Datadog, New Relic, Checkly, Dynatrace, SpeedCurve, and Splunk Observability, lost visibility or functionality precisely when organizations needed them most.

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Data Sovereignty in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Kelsey Hightower and Mark Boost

Oct 20, 2025 By Civo In Civo

Join Kelsey Hightower and Mark Boost at Civo Navigate London as they discuss sovereignty in the context of AI and cloud computing. The conversation highlights the need for a more nuanced approach to cloud computing, one that balances the benefits of public cloud with the need for control and sovereignty. The discussion emphasizes the importance of open protocols and the role of the community in driving innovation, and notes that the adoption of AI workloads is driving a shift towards more decentralized and sovereign cloud architectures.

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10 Best EKS Alternatives: Simplifying Kubernetes for Modern Development

Oct 17, 2025 By Morgan Perry In Qovery

Compare the 10 best EKS alternatives for Kubernetes, including Qovery (IDP), GKE, DOKS, and OpenShift. Simplify operations, reduce costs, and accelerate deployment.

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Kubernetes Security Guide: Risks, Strategies, And Tools

Oct 17, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero

In 2018, attackers gained access to Tesla’s AWS cloud environment through an unprotected Kubernetes console (admin console). Because it lacked proper authentication, the hackers could see and control cluster resources. Once inside, they deployed new pods running cryptocurrency mining software, using Tesla’s compute power for profit. During the breach, the attackers also uncovered credentials stored in the cluster.

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Unlocking the Power of Sovereign Cloud: Insights from Civo Navigate London

Oct 16, 2025 By Emma Stewart-Oram In Civo

As organizations increasingly rely on cloud computing to drive their businesses forward, a critical question arises: what happens when the cloud is no longer a trusted partner? This was a key theme explored at Civo Navigate London 2025, where Civo's leadership team shared their insights on the future of cloud computing and the growing importance of sovereign cloud solutions.

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Can You Afford To Build Your Own Cloud Cost Optimization Platform?

Oct 16, 2025 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero

So you’ve run into cloud cost challenges — incomplete visibility, overspending, thinning margins — and you’re wondering whether you have what it takes to build a cloud cost optimization platform in-house. It’s a responsible question (one that the FinOps Foundation even advises you to ask). Be warned: Building your own cloud cost optimization platform seems cheaper than adding another SaaS subscription. It’s not.

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25 Sumo Logic updates to better monitor and secure your Azure environments

Oct 16, 2025 By Margaret Selid In Sumo Logic

If you manage workloads across multiple clouds, you know how easy it is for critical alerts or performance issues to get lost in the noise. Switching between consoles, correlating logs, and tracking metrics across platforms can slow down troubleshooting, delaying incident resolution and increasing risk of missing critical alerts.

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InfluxDB 3 on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB: Real-Time Performance, Now Fully Managed on AWS

Oct 16, 2025 By Evan Kaplan In InfluxData

Today, we’re announcing a major milestone for developers building the next generation of intelligent, real-time systems: InfluxDB 3 is available on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, now the default time series database offered directly in the AWS Management Console. This brings InfluxDB 3, our next-generation time series database, directly into the AWS ecosystem for the first time.

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