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So you had a great day playing with really awesome new tech, solving big business challenges, and feeling like you really nailed it. Then you wake up the next day to an alert from Azure telling you you've blown your monthly budget and its only the first week of the month. We've all been there... right? Using any cloud service comes with a cost, but for most services the budget risk is low. Cost calculated daily isn't a problem when usage is predictable, but not everything works like that.

Organizations around the world use Microsoft Azure to power their businesses. The cloud computing platform includes hundreds of products and services organizations can use to build and manage applications, but monitoring those environments can often feel like navigating a maze of fragmented data, tools, and processes.

AWS NAT Gateways are essential for private subnet access but can quickly become a costly burden, even when idle. With Kentik, cloud and network engineers gain deep visibility into NAT Gateway traffic, allowing them to identify underutilized gateways, analyze high-cost usage, and explore cost-saving alternatives like VPC Endpoints, Internet Gateways, or direct peering.

Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service. This rebranding, announced in July 2023, is part of Microsoft’s broader Entra product family, which focuses on securing access to digital resources and managing identities in a comprehensive way.

New UI features in Cloud Trace, part of Google Cloud Observability, make it easier to troubleshoot latency and errors in your applications.

Explore the structure, benefits, and challenges of Microsoft Teams Private Channels, including how their unique SharePoint backend impacts data management and archiving.

Google Cloud Run is a fully managed service that allows you to deploy, manage, and scale workloads on serverless containers. Because Cloud Run abstracts away infrastructure management and runs on complex, distributed backends, it can be difficult to troubleshoot. Datadog’s integrations with Google Cloud and Google Cloud Run address that challenge by collecting and visualizing key metrics and logs.

While Azure DevOps offers a solid framework for application development, integrating Flyway into this setup can greatly simplify and enhance database deployments. In today’s fast-changing database environment, development teams are always looking for ways to improve their deployment processes. While Azure DevOps offers a solid framework for application development, integrating Redgate Flyway into this setup can greatly simplify and enhance database deployments.

The long-awaited cloud services market investigation from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been published and is an important milestone in the evolution of the UK’s digital infrastructure as a whole. For those unaware of the findings, the report was primarily designed to evaluate whether any features of the UK cloud market were impacting competition because of concerns that a lack of competition was pushing up costs and reduced quality of service.