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Build Vs. Buy? Why Creating Your Own Cost Management Platform Is Futile

The siren song of building a custom, internal cloud cost management platform is enticing. Many brilliant engineering teams are convinced they can come up with a bespoke solution that perfectly fits their needs. They look at their company’s unique infrastructure and decide they can DIY cost management without having to rely on an external vendor. Believe me, I get the temptation.

Amazon Isn't Eating Its Own DNS Dog Food

On October 19-20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage (AWS status) 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, disrupting major platforms including Snapchat, McDonald’s, Disney+, Roblox, Coinbas, Reddit, and Amazon’s own services.

Sustainable Cloud Computing in the UK: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future

The tech industry's environmental impact is a growing concern, but can collaboration and innovation drive sustainability? At Civo Navigate London 2025, Regent Lee, Dinesh Majrekar, Liam McTague, and Simon Morris explored the challenges and opportunities of reducing emissions in the tech industry.

The Best Cloud Storage Deals of Black Friday 2025

Looking for the best cloud storage deals? You’re in the right place, and since Black Friday is just around the corner, now is the perfect time. This time of year, companies offer their biggest deals on everything from tech gadgets, beauty, video games, and much more. But for cloud storage, we’ve got you covered with the best cloud storage deals of the year, allowing you to store, backup, sync, and share your files with friends, family, or colleagues.

When AWS Goes Down: What It Means For Your Cloud Costs

A global outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) did more than knock popular apps offline. It laid bare the cost risks embedded in many cloud architectures. As services fail, the hidden costs of high availability, from redundancy planning to recovery operations, often multiply. For cloud cost leaders, this isn’t an issue of uptime; it’s a visibility and budget-shock issue. It’s a key reminder that architecting for resilience involves difficult trade-offs.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.