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As there are many cloud providers available, when searching for the right solution, getting the best performance is likely at the top of your list. Without a solid cloud performance foundation, businesses can run into all sorts of problems, such as outages, network lag, loss of customers, and reputation. To help avoid these barriers, we will analyze what factors you should consider from your provider's cloud performance metrics so your business can handle and manage data without interruption.

Google Cloud Next is the biggest event of the year for the Google Cloud community, showcasing the latest and greatest offerings from Google Cloud and hundreds of its partners. As a long-time Google Cloud partner and recipient of three Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards in 2025, Datadog was there in full force, delivering several speaking sessions and running a booth on the expo floor where we met with thousands of attendees. In case you missed it, don’t worry.

The cloud offers many benefits, including scalability, cost savings, and operational efficiency. But here’s the deal. Organizing, monitoring, and controlling a cloud environment can become complex as workloads, applications, services, and underlying infrastructure grow. Businesses can better control and monitor their cloud infrastructure services, resources, and data using cloud management software.

Global cloud spending will surge past $700 billion this year. Megacaps alone will spend more than $300 billion on AI in 2025, with much more on the way. The innovation potential of the cloud has never been higher, never been more hotly contested, and never come with a higher price tag. In the late 2000s, the cloud reshaped the global economy and enabled life as we know it. Now, in the mid 2020s, AI is poised to do the same.

Today, we are happy to celebrate Elastic and AWS committing to a five-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA). Our collaboration underscores the efforts of Elastic and AWS to provide you with increased speed and greater flexibility as you adopt generative AI technology.

Over the last few years, more organizations have switched from relying solely on one cloud service provider (CSP) to several. The primary reasons for the change are minimizing dependence on a single CSP, preventing vendor lock-in, and providing greater flexibility. Recent trends include using a mix of cloud providers to take advantage of the cost savings several CSPs offer and using best-of-breed services for different applications, teams, or departments.

HIPAA and GDPR compliance laws are both essential laws from Europe and America to protect user data. While HIPAA focuses on protecting medical and patient information to prevent the rise in healthcare data breaches, GDPR is broader, focusing on regulations that handle personally identifiable information (PII) of EU and UK citizens.

Cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations, powering everything from day-to-day collaboration to large-scale digital transformation initiatives. As organizations deepen their reliance on cloud services, the financial stakes continue to grow. According to Gartner, global spending on public cloud services is projected to reach over $720 billion in 2025, a significant increase from nearly $600 billion in 2024.

At first glance, AWS Config seems like a no-brainer for tracking changes, catching misconfigurations, and proving compliance. But beneath the surface, Config pricing can get surprisingly intricate. Costs don’t just depend on the number of resources you monitor. They also hinge on how often those resources change, how many rules you evaluate, and how you manage historical data. In this guide, we’ll demystify AWS Config pricing.