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The Outage Anxiety Test: Can You Answer These 3 Questions In Under 10 Minutes?

Nov 3, 2025 By Doug Bonderud In CloudZero
On Oct. 20, the Internet woke up and seemingly chose violence. For more than 12 hours, Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down. From banking platforms to hospital communications to mobile ordering apps, digital services came to a screeching halt. The cause? Two programs are trying to write a DNS entry simultaneously, failing, and leaving the entry blank. Thus began the incredibly costly failure cascade.
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AI And Sustainability: Measuring The Impact Of The Generative AI Boom

Nov 3, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Before 2022, Alex Hanna worked on Google’s Ethical AI team. Today, she’s the director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute, a transition sparked by Google’s handling of a paper exposing AI’s growing environmental footprint. So, how bad is it, really? That depends on who you ask. Take Jesse Dodge, a senior research analyst at the Allen Institute for AI. Jesse told NPR that a single ChatGPT query can use as much electricity as keeping a light bulb on for 20 minutes.
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Webinar Recap: 3 Cost Allocation Mistakes FinOps Teams Can Avoid

Oct 31, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
In a webinar hosted by CloudZero on Oct. 30, 2025, Larry Advey, Director of Cloud Platform and FinOps and a respected voice in the FinOps community, joined Umesh Rao to deliver a practical session on cloud cost allocation. The session, titled Three Allocation Mistakes Most FinOps Teams Make, unpacked hard-earned lessons and offered a guided tour of CloudZero’s new Dimension Studio.
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AWS Fargate Alternatives: Comparing Serverless Container Options

Oct 31, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Imagine you have an API service composed of multiple microservices. Traffic fluctuates — sometimes light, sometimes spiking. Without Fargate, you’d have to manage EC2 instances, autoscaling, patching, and more. With Fargate, you define each microservice as a task, setting the CPU/memory, container image, network rules, and AWS schedules, and then run them as needed. The result: faster deployment, lower ops overhead, and smooth scaling.
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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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