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Introducing Updog.ai: Real-time provider status from Datadog

When external SaaS providers or cloud services degrade or go down, engineers often find themselves wondering if the issue they're encountering is local or more widespread. The answers they find are usually slow to surface, limited in detail, or entirely dependent on the provider's updates. Vendor-controlled status pages and third-party aggregators don’t provide the timely, independent visibility that's necessary to quickly and accurately identify the root cause of slowdowns.

SOC vs. the Clock: The New Cybersecurity Frontlines

Cloud attacks now account for over half of all threats — and most businesses still aren’t ready. In this conversation, Scott from N-able and Zac from First Technology Group unpack the latest SOC threat intelligence, the rise of AI in cyber defence, and why layered security is more critical than ever. What you’ll learn: If you manage IT, security, or risk, this is your insider’s view into what’s coming — and how to prepare.

The Hidden Risk of DNS - Lessons from the AWS Outage & Why You Need DNS Spy Monitoring NOW

On October 20, 2025, much of the internet came to a halt. Apps wouldn’t load. Payments failed. Cloud dashboards went dark. From Fortnite to Alexa, Snapchat, and countless business platforms, users across the world were suddenly offline — all because DNS broke inside Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) US-East-1 region.

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.

Kubernetes Security Guide: Risks, Strategies, And Tools

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.