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Predictable Cloud Egress Is Finally Here: How Megaport Unlocks It All

Discover how AWS Direct Connect flat-rate pricing makes cloud egress predictable and how Megaport enables high-volume data migration. AWS has announced flat-rate pricing for Direct Connect, bringing more predictable egress costs to eligible 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps Dedicated Connections. Here’s what the new egress pricing model means for bulk data migration, plus how Megaport helps you make the most of it with private connectivity to the storage and compute your workloads need.

How Does Google Photos Work to Back Up and Sync My Files?

Google Photos is part of Google’s product suite, but works differently from Google Drive, which focuses on storing your files and collaboration with others. So how does Google Photos work? Google Photos is dedicated to protecting your photos from accidental deletion or data loss by automatically uploading your photos to Google Photos, backing them up in the cloud, and making them accessible across all devices.

New in LightMesh: Cisco Meraki Integration

Some features start on a roadmap. Others start with a recurring customer request: Can LightMesh connect to Meraki? That request kept coming up. Now the answer is yes. LightMesh supports Meraki sites with multiple VLANs or a single LAN through the new cloud integration for Cisco Meraki. Appliance addressing from Dashboard syncs into LightMesh as subnets (with VLAN ID when Meraki provides one), and device or client LAN IPs only when they fall inside those CIDRs.

How Upsun Dispatch runs workflows, from issue to reviewed code

Upsun Dispatch is generally available to the public as of today. Our previous article explains what it is and why we built it. This round, we take you into the details of how it works, the primitives it consists of, and the functionality available right away. You'll also get a glimpse of our roadmap at the end of the article.

Kling AI pricing in 2026: plans, credit costs, API packages, and the spend no invoice shows

Kling AI pricing runs from a free tier of 66 daily credits to a reported $180 per month, with annual billing about 34% cheaper. Kling 3.0 bills per second: 6 to 12 credits for standard resolutions and 30 for native 4K. The API sells separate prepaid packages from $9.80 to $7,560.

ElevenLabs pricing in 2026: plans, credits, and agent costs

ElevenLabs pricing runs from a free plan to $990 per month across six published tiers, with custom Enterprise above that. Plans meter usage in credits, where one credit roughly equals one character of speech. Voice agents cost $0.08 per minute on every tier, plus separate LLM and telephony charges. The AI agency PxlPeak published its own ElevenLabs invoice: $303 for January 2026, covering voice content for six clients, IVR systems for two, and live voice agents for three.

Token-based pricing: how AI usage billing works (2026)

Token-based pricing charges for AI by the volume of text a model processes, metered separately for input tokens (what you send) and output tokens (what the model returns). As of 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all bill their APIs this way, and the model is spreading into enterprise chat products. Bills scale with usage rather than seats.