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How to delete a SharePoint or Teams-connected site: admin center and PowerShell steps, the 93-day window, permanent deletion and the storage effect.

"We'll just build it ourselves" is usually said with confidence and a rough headcount estimate. Six months later, the team that was supposed to spend two sprints on it is still maintaining it a year in, and the platform that was meant to save engineering time has become one of the things engineering time goes to. Build isn't automatically the wrong call. Sometimes it's the right one.

AWS Interconnect is coming to Megaport, giving enterprises and AI infrastructure providers another way to scale private AWS connectivity with automation, encryption, and built-in resilience. Megaport customers just got a new AWS connectivity option, and it fits perfectly with how we’ve always believed infrastructure should work: direct, automated, resilient, and easier to operate.

The Google Cloud London outage on Tuesday, October 20, 2026 began as a power event inside a single zone, europe-west2-b, and within hours it was the reason people across Britain could not open their banking apps, process orders, or join remote court hearings.

Most companies gave everyone AI access and thought they’d sort out the costs later. Engineering, support, product, marketing, and finance all got licenses to the best models. The early results looked good, and for a while it didn’t matter there wasn’t an explicit business case. Let’s call the first half of 2026 the free-for-all period for many companies. AI adoption spread across the org fast, people and teams loved it, and then the invoices started coming in.

When Monitors flags a cost spike, the fix usually belongs to an engineering team, and that team might track their work in Jira. Now you can hand the incident to them from CloudZero in one click. The Jira ticket and the CloudZero incident stay in step. When the engineer resolves the ticket, the incident resolves too. You track the work in one place, and the status you see in CloudZero matches what the team is doing.

On 21 October 2026, the team behind PHP released an emergency fix for two critical security flaws. PHP is the programming language behind a large share of the web, including WordPress, Drupal and many online stores. Researchers at Wiz named the flaws PHP2Shell. An attacker could use them to take control of a website without ever logging in. Updating a website, its CMS, or its plugins doesn't help. The only real fix is (and was) a new version of PHP itself.

The data to explain a slow endpoint is usually already sitting in your project. Blackfire has the profile. Continuous profiling has the flame graph. The traffic numbers show which route matters. The code is in git. What takes the afternoon is putting those four things next to each other and working out which function is responsible. That afternoon is what the Upsun Performance Agent is for.

Data residency is about where data is stored and processed. Data sovereignty is about whose laws and operators can reach it. The strongest setups put regulated data in in-country regions or with sovereign providers, hold their own encryption keys, enforce placement with policy, and keep the ability to move. No single provider covers every country, so most teams combine two or three. Disclosure: Control Plane publishes this guide and is one of the options listed. This guide is not legal advice.

The best cloud migration tool depends on what you are moving, from where, to where, and whether you can afford downtime. Native tools (AWS Transform MGN, Azure Migrate, and Google Cloud Migration Center) move servers into their own cloud. Replication tools move VMs and data with minimal downtime. Kubernetes tools move containerized apps. Platforms like Control Plane let you run the same workloads in the old and new environment at once, so you cut over gradually.