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Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?

Oct 30, 2025 By Civo In Civo
Are "free" cloud credits holding your business back? Join us for an online webinar as we explore the hidden risks associated with cloud credits and the impact they have on businesses. Our speakers, Simon Hansford, Chief Commercial Officer at Civo, and James Marks, Founder of Canopy, will share their knowledge and experience on this critical topic. This webinar is based on our recent whitepaper, which examines the "cloud credit trap" and its far-reaching implications for organizations.
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Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?

Oct 30, 2025 By Emma Kinsey-Coates In Civo
“Free" cloud credits, they sound like a gift, but they often come with hidden costs and an agenda: lock-in. The illusion of a cost-saving measure can quickly become a vendor-specific trap, forcing costly migrations or leaving your business overpaying for cloud services. This issue, which the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) estimates contributes to £430M of annual over-payments in the UK alone, is what we call the "cloud credit trap.".
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FinOps for Hybrid IT: Extending Visibility Beyond the Cloud

Oct 29, 2025 By Marie Ashway In Galileo
Controlling IT spend used to mean managing cloud invoices. Today, it’s far more complex. Modern enterprises run workloads across multiple platforms — cloud, virtualized, and on-premises — each with its own cost structures and dependencies. That’s why FinOps for hybrid IT has become essential. Extending FinOps principles beyond cloud services enables organizations to see how every part of the infrastructure contributes to cost, efficiency, and business value.
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Azure status integration is here!

Oct 29, 2025 By Valeria Kurolapova In StatusGator
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Azure status integration, bringing Microsoft Azure’s real-time service health and incident data directly into your StatusGator dashboard and status page. With this new integration, StatusGator automatically imports Azure outages and service status updates from your Azure subscription — giving you a complete, centralized view of your cloud infrastructure alongside every other service you monitor.
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Open Source Cloud Orchestration Tools Compared

Oct 29, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Before 2011, cloud infrastructure was still new. AWS had launched EC2 and S3 in 2006. But to deploy applications, engineers had to manually spin up servers, configure storage, and set up networking — all by hand or with custom scripts. There were early configuration management tools, such as Chef and Puppet, but those didn’t offer full cloud orchestration. Then in 2011, AWS launched AWS CloudFormation as the first major orchestration tool.
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CEO Diaries: Not All AI Talent Is Alike

Oct 29, 2025 By Phil Pergola In CloudZero
If Meta’s (now halted) nine-figure AI talent poaching scheme was any indication, the AI talent market is pretty frothy. The number of AI-related job postings has roughly tripled since 2019, and the average salary has more than doubled (Bain). The race is on for companies to find the fastest, most sustainable routes to AI-driven business value; all companies, but especially software companies, are hotly pursuing racers. But despite what Zuckerberg & Co.
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Azure Cost Optimization: Best Practices for Cloud Solution Providers

Oct 29, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this episode, we explore practical Azure cost management strategies tailored for Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). The conversation dives into cost visibility, optimization techniques, and billing transparency, helping CSPs improve margins and deliver more value to their customers. Featuring experts from West Coast, a leading CSP, including James Reed (Azure Sales Manager) and Mitchell G. (Azure Sales Specialist), along with Mike Stevenson, the discussion highlights real-world insights from the partner ecosystem.
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Whose Fault Is It When the Cloud Fails? Does It Matter?

Oct 29, 2025 By Jeremy Rossbach In Broadcom
On Monday, October 20th, a significant portion of the digital services we use every day became inaccessible. For hours, banking, communication, and entertainment applications were unavailable. The root cause was later identified as a major outage within Amazon Web Services (AWS), the infrastructure that powers a vast number of online services. The initial response for any business affected by such an event is a frantic effort to diagnose the problem. Is it our application? Is our network down?
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How FinTech Is Pushing the Boundaries of Intelligent Operations

How FinTech Is Pushing the Boundaries of Intelligent Operations

Oct 29, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In the last decade, the financial technology (FinTech) industry has evolved from a promising disruptor to a powerful force reshaping global business operations. What began as a wave of startups offering digital payments and online banking has now transformed into a full-fledged ecosystem of automation, data intelligence, and artificial decision-making.
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