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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.

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.

Since the inception of public clouds, a lot of CXOs have considered moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud and many have already done that. If your organization is considering migration to the cloud, learn what drove this mass movement from on-premises servers to the cloud. In this article, we'll explain the major reasons why organizations prefer the cloud, the issues you should watch out for, and how you should protect your cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Web Service offers cloud computing to organizations of all sizes. It provides low-cost cloud storage, nearly unlimited compute resources, and secure remote computing services. Still, many users find AWS confusing. Companies often struggle to understand AWS billing. Aligning cloud spend to actual operational activities for cost allocation is next to impossible. AWS also limits the amount of compute resources you can use based on your location.