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Shipped: Catch a cost spike before it hits your bill

Aug 5, 2026 By Kaitlin Woo In CloudZero

You’re probably already tracking the metrics that matter most in your Analytics dashboards like unit economics, AI ROI, and spend by team. Now you can put a target on any of them. Pick the metric, set the threshold, and CloudZero emails you when it’s crossed, with no ticket to us, no custom build.

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How to measure AI ROI: metrics and a framework finance can actually run

Aug 5, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero

To measure AI ROI, compare attributable value (revenue lift, cost savings, engineering time recovered, risk reduction) against fully loaded AI spend (API usage, subscriptions, infrastructure, people time) at the unit level: per initiative, per team, per task. The formula is simple. The instrumentation is the hard part, and it's where most organizations are failing: in CloudZero's 2026 survey, 34% of finance leaders couldn't produce a credible ROI number at all.

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Email Archiving Solutions: Which Type You Actually Need

Aug 5, 2026 By Mark In SmiKar Software

Email archiving means four different jobs, and buying the wrong one is common. Compliance journaling, in-place archives, departed-user archiving and backup compared, with what to check before you buy.

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Building a Modern Cloud Outage Response Workflow in Slack and Microsoft Teams

Aug 4, 2026 By StatusGator In StatusGator

On May 7 and 8, 2026, a thermal event in a single AWS data center hall knocked out power to EC2 instances and EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in us-east-1. Within hours, more than 150 cloud services went down, including Coinbase, Reddit, HubSpot, and Atlassian's suite of tools, Jira, Confluence, and Trello among them. For teams without a structured cloud outage response workflow, the next several hours looked familiar: Slack DMs asking "is it down for you too?", tab-switching between status pages, and incident commanders repeating the same update in three different channels.

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Agent security starts with where the agent runs, not how it behaves

Aug 4, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun

When engineering teams evaluate AI agents, the first questions are usually about capability. Which model performs best? How much faster can it write code? What's the return on investment? Security, if it enters the conversation at all, tends to come later. Patrick Dawkins, Principal Software Engineer at Upsun, thinks that's backward. Over the past year, he's been building the infrastructure that enables AI agents to operate safely within engineering teams.

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Railway Mania, the birth of the S&P 500, and the lesson for the AI era

Aug 4, 2026 By Brady Lenahan In CloudZero

In 1846, Britain poured roughly 7% of its national income into railways, proportionally about three times what the U.S. spends on AI infrastructure today. The technology delivered everything it promised, and a generation of investors still lost their shirts. What sorted the winners from the wreckage wasn't conviction about the technology; it was whether ROI was measured or asserted. The man who fixed that problem gave his name to the S&P 500.

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques in the Microsoft 365 Audit Log

Aug 4, 2026 By Mark In SmiKar Software

A reference mapping MITRE ATT&CK techniques to the SharePoint, OneDrive and Entra ID audit events that actually evidence them, with the detection signal for each.

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SharePoint Audit Log Noise: Platform Activity That Looks Like an Attack

Aug 4, 2026 By Mark In SmiKar Software

Much of what the Microsoft 365 audit log records as user activity is the platform itself. Twelve patterns that look like exfiltration, password spray or privilege escalation, and what each one really is.

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Why Config Changes Cause Most Cloud Outages in 2026

Aug 4, 2026 By Falit Jain In Pagerly

If you have watched the incident channels light up over the past few weeks, you already sense the theme of 2026: cloud outages are no longer rare, dramatic once a year events. They are a steady drumbeat, and most of them trace back to the same root cause. Not a data center fire, not a rogue backhoe severing a fiber line, but a routine configuration change that went out, behaved differently than expected, and cascaded.

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Why Cloud Cost Visibility at Scale Fails (And How to Fix It) | Harness Blog

Aug 4, 2026 By Kelsey Rosen In Harness

Cloud cost visibility at scale usually works great… until it suddenly doesn’t. At first, everything feels manageable. You can track spend by service. You know which team owns which resources. Reports are clean, and the numbers make sense. Then one day, there’s a $47,000 spike spread across three AWS accounts that no one noticed for eleven days. Leadership wants answers. Engineering wants context. And your carefully designed tagging strategy?

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