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Your AI Economics Pulse for September 2026

Sep 8, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Across a same-store panel of 430 CloudZero customer organizations, AI reached 2.66% of the median company's cloud bill in August 2026, up from 2.61% in July and roughly four times its level a year ago. The 75th percentile crossed 11%. The share of organizations with at least 10% of cloud spend attributed to AI jumped to 28.2% from 23.9%, the largest one-month move that tier has posted. Two-thirds of the panel now spends at least $1,000 a month on AI. The typical bill barely shifted.
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Shipped: Turn on the ServiceNow integration yourself in Labs

Sep 8, 2026 By Matthew DiLoreto In CloudZero
The ServiceNow integration is in Labs now, which means any CloudZero admin can switch it on and start routing cost work into their incident queue the same day. What that gives you is a full loop between the money and the work. A monthly Optimize pass surfaces recommendations with a dollar figure on each one. Pick the ones worth acting on, open incidents for all of them at once, and each ticket shows up carrying the resource, the finding, and the context an engineer needs.
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upsun

From idea to working software: what the full development lifecycle needs to look like

Sep 8, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
GitHub's research found that developers using Copilot completed tasks 55% faster than those who didn't. Tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, powered by large language models such as Claude or GPT, are designed to automate the tedious parts of programming so engineers can focus on harder, more creative problems. With this. new repos spin up every week. The promise is being kept. But where are the products?
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The VM Boom For AI Agents | David Crawshaw Co-Founder & CEO, exe.dev

Sep 8, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
What happens when AI agents stop simply answering questions and start using computers of their own? It could create an entirely new boom in virtual machines. In this episode of Uplink, David Crawshaw, Co-Founder and CEO of exe.dev, joins host Michael Reid to explore the infrastructure behind the rapidly emerging world of AI agents. As agents become capable of writing code, running applications, operating tools, maintaining state, and working independently, they need more than access to an AI model. They need computing environments where they can actually get work done.
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How Azure Fundamentals Can Strengthen Your Cloud and Digital Technology Skills

How Azure Fundamentals Can Strengthen Your Cloud and Digital Technology Skills

Sep 8, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Many people encounter AZ-900 (Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals) as a checkbox and never ask what it teaches them beyond Microsoft Azure. The more useful question is whether a fundamentals-level credential can build digital skills that remain relevant after the exam or whether it amounts to little more than a badge.
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Data residency in 2026: what regulators now expect from your cloud, and how to prove it

Sep 7, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
Ask a compliance team where their EU customer data lives, and most will point confidently at a dashboard showing a Frankfurt or Dublin region. Ask their legal counsel whether that data is beyond the reach of a foreign government demand, and the confidence usually drops. Those are two different questions. Since 12 September 2025 there has been a dated EU obligation that turns on the second one rather than the first.
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Container hardening isn't a substitute for artifact management

Sep 7, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
Hardened base images are a great secure foundation. They're minimal, security-vetted, and have few dependencies to worry about. But almost nobody ships a bare base image. Teams build on top of it. This video cover whys that "on top of it" layer is where the risk actually lives: Skip the base image hardening and you're building on a shaky foundation. Skip artifact management and you're leaving everything built on top of that foundation ungoverned. A strong posture uses both.
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What is Backup and Disaster Recovery? A Complete Guide

Sep 7, 2026 By Serena Toh In Megaport
Learn what backup and disaster recovery means, how BDR works, and why it matters for reducing downtime and data loss. Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is what keeps data loss from becoming a business-wide catastrophe. And to protect their business, IT teams need to ask if they can recover the right data, in the right order, fast enough for the business to keep operating. A backup can preserve a copy of a file, database, or workload, but disaster recovery is what brings the wider service back online.
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Database Branching Explained: How It Works and When to Use It

Sep 5, 2026 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
Database branching solves a strange mismatch in modern development: code gets its own branch, but the database often doesn’t. Developers can work independently in Git, then end up sharing the same development database, waiting for a fresh copy, or trying not to break each other’s schema changes. The result is a lot of database sprawl.
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