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Choosing AWS Vs. Cloudflare: Which One Do You Need?

May 30, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
AWS and Cloudflare often come up together when teams are building, securing, and scaling web applications. While they originally served different purposes, their offerings now overlap in key areas like content delivery (CloudFront vs. Cloudflare CDN), edge compute (Lambda@Edge vs. Workers), DNS and WAF, and API delivery. In this guide, we’ll explore what each platform does best, when to use one over the other, and see if you can combine both for optimal speed, security, and cost efficiency.
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How to Detect Cloud Configuration Changes Before They Cost You

May 30, 2025 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
In this video, see how ScienceLogic helps IT teams take back control. By delivering real-time insight, intelligent policy recommendations, and automated enforcement, ScienceLogic keeps your cloud environment compliant, cost-efficient, and secure. From real-time change detection to automated remediation, you’ll get the visibility and control needed to move fast and stay ahead of disruption.
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Internxt

How to Get the Best Cloud Performance for Your Business

May 29, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
As there are many cloud providers available, when searching for the right solution, getting the best performance is likely at the top of your list. Without a solid cloud performance foundation, businesses can run into all sorts of problems, such as outages, network lag, loss of customers, and reputation. To help avoid these barriers, we will analyze what factors you should consider from your provider's cloud performance metrics so your business can handle and manage data without interruption.
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Highlights from Google Cloud Next 2025

May 29, 2025 By Trammell Saltzgaber In Datadog
Google Cloud Next is the biggest event of the year for the Google Cloud community, showcasing the latest and greatest offerings from Google Cloud and hundreds of its partners. As a long-time Google Cloud partner and recipient of three Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards in 2025, Datadog was there in full force, delivering several speaking sessions and running a booth on the expo floor where we met with thousands of attendees. In case you missed it, don’t worry.
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Why Is CloudZero The World's Best-Funded FinOps Startup?

May 28, 2025 By Phil Pergola In CloudZero
Global cloud spending will surge past $700 billion this year. Megacaps alone will spend more than $300 billion on AI in 2025, with much more on the way. The innovation potential of the cloud has never been higher, never been more hotly contested, and never come with a higher price tag. In the late 2000s, the cloud reshaped the global economy and enabled life as we know it. Now, in the mid 2020s, AI is poised to do the same.
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Elastic and AWS collaborate to bring GenAI to DevOps, security, and search

May 28, 2025 By Eddie Xu, In Elastic
Today, we are happy to celebrate Elastic and AWS committing to a five-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA). Our collaboration underscores the efforts of Elastic and AWS to provide you with increased speed and greater flexibility as you adopt generative AI technology.
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20+ Cloud Management Software Platforms To Know In 2025

May 28, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
The cloud offers many benefits, including scalability, cost savings, and operational efficiency. But here’s the deal. Organizing, monitoring, and controlling a cloud environment can become complex as workloads, applications, services, and underlying infrastructure grow. Businesses can better control and monitor their cloud infrastructure services, resources, and data using cloud management software.
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20 Multi-Cloud Management Tools To Consider In 2025

May 27, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Over the last few years, more organizations have switched from relying solely on one cloud service provider (CSP) to several. The primary reasons for the change are minimizing dependence on a single CSP, preventing vendor lock-in, and providing greater flexibility. Recent trends include using a mix of cloud providers to take advantage of the cost savings several CSPs offer and using best-of-breed services for different applications, teams, or departments.
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Internxt

HIPAA vs GDPR Differences You Need to Know

May 27, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
HIPAA and GDPR compliance laws are both essential laws from Europe and America to protect user data. While HIPAA focuses on protecting medical and patient information to prevent the rise in healthcare data breaches, GDPR is broader, focusing on regulations that handle personally identifiable information (PII) of EU and UK citizens.
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Cloud Cost Management & Trends in 2025: Strategies to Optimize Your Cloud Spend

May 26, 2025 By Kayly Lange In Splunk
Cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations, powering everything from day-to-day collaboration to large-scale digital transformation initiatives. As organizations deepen their reliance on cloud services, the financial stakes continue to grow. According to Gartner, global spending on public cloud services is projected to reach over $720 billion in 2025, a significant increase from nearly $600 billion in 2024.
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AWS Config Pricing Explained: What It Costs And Why

May 26, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
At first glance, AWS Config seems like a no-brainer for tracking changes, catching misconfigurations, and proving compliance. But beneath the surface, Config pricing can get surprisingly intricate. Costs don’t just depend on the number of resources you monitor. They also hinge on how often those resources change, how many rules you evaluate, and how you manage historical data. In this guide, we’ll demystify AWS Config pricing.
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The ROI of monitoring your Azure environment: Prevent surprises, control costs, boost uptime

May 26, 2025 By Mahalashmi Narayanan In Site24x7
Like many cloud providers, Azure offers services that scale with usage. However, unanticipated overutilization of Service Bus, Azure Functions, and SQL databases can incur additional costs. Managing these resources effectively is crucial for keeping the billing framework predictive.
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logicmonitor

Surprised By Your AWS ELB Bill? Here's What Happened

May 23, 2025 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
On May 1st, AWS corrected a long-standing billing bug tied to Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) data transfers between Availability Zones (AZs) and regions. That fix triggered a noticeable increase in charges for many users, especially for those with high traffic volumes or distributed architectures. The problem wasn’t new usage; it was a silent correction to an old error.
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Understand and manage your Datadog spend with Datadog cost data in Cloud Cost Management

May 22, 2025 By Katherine Broner In Datadog
As your organization scales its Datadog footprint, you want to understand what’s driving cost changes and promote cost awareness. But to take meaningful action, you need more than a monthly bill—you need real-time, contextualized cost data tied to services and teams. Without this visibility, it’s hard to assign ownership, prevent cost overruns, or identify which changes are affecting spend.
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21+ Top Cloud Service Providers Globally In 2025

May 21, 2025 By CloudZero Team In CloudZero
We recently explored what the cloud is and how it has evolved over 60 years. Yet, cloud computingWe recently explored the cloud and how it has evolved over 60 years. Yet, cloud computing emerged into what it is today in 2002, when Amazon, the e-commerce giant, sought a more efficient way to expand its online marketplace. So, it is unsurprising that the company’s cloud services subsidiary (AWS), which launched in 2006, is today’s largest Cloud Service Provider (CSP).
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Mastering Heroku Monitoring in 2025: Best Practices for Optimal Application Performance

May 21, 2025 By Elliot Langston In MetricFire
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the reliability and performance of your applications is paramount. Heroku, a cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), simplifies application deployment and scaling. However, to fully leverage Heroku's capabilities, effective monitoring is essential. This guide delves into best practices for monitoring Heroku applications, providing context, practical steps, and unique insights to enhance your observability strategy.
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What is Amazon Inspector? Monitoring and Alerting with Amazon Inspector

May 21, 2025 By Babu Sundaram In eG Innovations
Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that scans AWS workloads for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, unintended network exposure and compliance risks, helping organizations enhance cloud security, detect threats, and meet regulatory requirements (such as ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA, NIS 2 and SOC 2 Type 2) in real time. Amazon Inspector discovers and scans Amazon EC2 instances, container images in Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry), and Lambda functions.
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cloudzero

The True Cost Of Cloud Computing Explained

May 20, 2025 By CloudZero Team In CloudZero
It came as a pleasant surprise. CloudZero recently discovered over $1.7 million in annualized savings. And, all from our own infrastructure. Otherwise, we would have spent $1.7 million on cloud resources we didn’t actually need. Cloud savings stories like this are common with CloudZero customers, and we often find companies spending more than they should in the cloud. If your team is also struggling with managing and controlling the cost of cloud computing, then this guide is for you!
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Internxt

What Are Cloud Egress Fees and How To Avoid Them

May 20, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
Managing a self-hosted cloud infrastructure can be a complex and demanding task, which is why we pay for the privilege of companies to do this for us. Thanks to the range of options we have available, we can no move our data from the cloud quickly and easily, but there is one potential boundary of this, egress fees. Egress fees are what you have to pay to move your data from out the your cloud provider to another data center.
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Hybrid Cloud Monitoring: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategies, Best Practices, and Tools

May 20, 2025 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds
Modern infrastructures are no longer confined to on-premises servers alone. Instead, they span cloud environments, containers, microservices, and globally distributed systems. This landscape, known as a hybrid cloud environment, has become the new norm for organizations, primarily because it offers the scalability of the cloud and ownership over specific elements afforded by an on-premises setup.
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30+ AWS Interview Questions Every Cloud Pro Should Know Now

May 19, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Amazon Web Services (AWS) powers everything from scrappy startups to Fortune 500 giants. So, AWS interview questions are relevant for all kinds of roles, from infrastructure design to cost governance. Now, while some interviews test definitions and acronyms, the best ones dig deeper. They explore how well you understand AWS trade-offs—think of performance vs. cost, scalability vs. complexity, or security vs. usability.
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Azure Monitor offers Grafana dashboards natively for immediate real time operational monitoring

May 19, 2025 By Ash Mazhari In Grafana
The Grafanaverse just got a little bit bigger. Today at its annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, a new service that provides Azure users with Grafana dashboards natively integrated in the Azure Portal at no additional cost and with little administrative overhead required.
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30 Cloud Computing Tools To Simplify Cloud Management

May 16, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Cloud computing empowers organizations to access IT resources on demand, over the Internet, and on a pay-per-use basis. Thus, your company does not need to purchase, install, operate, and upgrade hardware for physical data centers. Instead, you can rent resources as needed from cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). For instance, AWS provides compute, storage, database, networking, machine learning, data lake, analytics, security, and IoT resources/services.
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Monitoring Oracle Cloud Load Balancer: Unlock peak performance with Applications Manager

May 16, 2025 By shruthi.rm@zohocorp.com In ManageEngine
Imagine you’re running a popular online learning platform that experiences a surge in traffic during peak hours, right before exams. Students worldwide are logging in simultaneously, watching videos, submitting assignments, and taking tests. If your Oracle Cloud Load Balancer isn’t distributing traffic efficiently or back-end servers are struggling to keep up, students could face slow loading times or service outages.
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Real-Time, Automated Resource Optimization for Kubernetes Workloads

May 16, 2025 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Struggling with underutilized Kubernetes resources or rising cloud costs? Learn how Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer delivers real-time, automated resource optimization for Kubernetes and Amazon EMR workloads—helping teams reduce costs and boost performance without manual tuning. In this video, discover how Pepperdata helps DevOps, platform engineers, and FinOps teams.
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Heroku vs AWS: Differences & What to Choose for Mid-Size & Startups in 2025?

May 16, 2025 By Mélanie Dallé In Qovery
Heroku and AWS offer distinct benefits for startups and mid-size companies. This guide compares pricing, scalability, security, and developer experience to help you choose the right cloud platform based on your team’s needs and growth goals.
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Internxt

What Is a Digital Footprint? How To Reduce Your Presence Online

May 15, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
Have you ever googled yourself out of curiosity, and found out way more information than you thought? That’s because many companies, social media outlets, and apps, create a digital footprint of you anytime you visit a website or service. What is a digital footprint, you ask? It’s the data you leave behind whenever you visit a page online.
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Pepperdata In Collaboration with AWS | Optimize Utilization and Cost for Kubernetes Workloads

May 15, 2025 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
In this AWS Startup Partner Spotlight, discover how Pepperdata empowers cloud-native startups to optimize their Kubernetes and Amazon EMR workloads in real time. With automated resource optimization, companies can reduce costs by an average of 30% while increasing utilization by up to 80%—without any manual tuning. Whether you're scaling rapidly or managing unpredictable workloads, Pepperdata ensures your infrastructure runs efficiently and cost-effectively from day one.
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AWS Lambda's INIT billing update: What's changing and why it matters for your cloud costs

May 15, 2025 By ramji.ry@zohocorp.com In ManageEngine
Starting on Aug. 1, 2025, AWS will bill for the initialization (INIT) phase of Lambda functions, bringing a key change to how you are charged for serverless workloads. This billing update will impact functions using managed runtimes with ZIP archive packaging, which previously excluded the INIT phase from the billed duration. For teams that rely heavily on AWS Lambda, this is a small but significant change. The INIT phase, while short, could introduce costs that were previously invisible.
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Unify your FinOps and engineering workflows in Datadog Cloud Cost Management

May 15, 2025 By Natasha Goel In Datadog
As your applications scale across cloud and SaaS providers, allocating costs and optimizing workloads become increasingly important—and challenging. Without access to cost data in their daily workflows, engineering teams can’t easily understand the cost of their resources and identify where they can reduce their spend. And while FinOps teams have access to cost data, they often review this information in silos.
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Pepperdata

Why Manual Tuning Fails: A Better Way to Optimize Kubernetes Workloads

May 15, 2025 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
As a data platform engineer, you’re tasked with running complex workloads—Apache Spark jobs, AI/ML pipelines, batch ETL—across dynamic Kubernetes environments. Performance matters. Time spent tuning matters. And so does cost. But if you’re still relying on manual resource tuning to optimize your workloads, you’re playing a losing game. Sure, you can tweak CPU and memory requests by hand. You can comb through Prometheus metrics, look at job logs, estimate peaks.
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cloudzero

Horizontal Vs. Vertical Scaling: Which Should You Choose?

May 14, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
We all want growth, but often find ourselves unequipped to deal with it. It’s a bit like going to the gym, lifting weights, and seeing real results, only to realize that you no longer fit into your old clothes. Now you have to decide whether to modify them or buy new clothes. We can use this very simple analogy to understand horizontal vs. vertical scaling.
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New Feature: Virtual Providers - Orchestrate Hybrid Infrastructure

May 14, 2025 By Cycle Platform In Cycle
Your Infrastructure. Your Cloud. Anywhere. Introducing Virtual Providers—a powerful new way to turn any server or VM into part of your Cycle-managed private cloud. With just a bootable ISO generated from the Cycle platform, you can instantly bring bare metal or virtual machines online—no matter where they live. Cloud, colo, on-prem, edge, or even a server sitting in a closet. Once connected, Cycle handles the provisioning, updates, networking, and orchestration automatically.
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NEW: Virtual Machines on Cycle

May 14, 2025 By Cycle Platform In Cycle
Run Anything, Anywhere — Now Including Virtual Machines Cycle just got even more powerful. In this video, we're announcing full support for virtual machine workloads on the Cycle platform. That means containers, functions, and now VMs—running side by side, managed through the same automation, networking, and orchestration engine. Whether it's bare metal in a colo, VMs on a cloud provider, or hardware in a homelab, Cycle brings it all together into one global private cloud.
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Navigating GCP Instance Types: What To Use And When

May 13, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) might not always be the loudest name in the cloud room. But it’s gradually become a powerhouse for organizations running data-intensive, AI/ML, and global-scale applications. We also can’t ignore that GCP offers a backbone powered by Google’s own infrastructure (the same one that runs YouTube, Gmail, and Search).
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Internxt

What Is A Cloud Storage Reseller and How To Become One

May 13, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
The cloud storage market is currently worth an estimated $124.57 billion and is expected to grow to $425.76 billion by 2030, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24%. As a result, businesses are looking for ways to expand their services and gain a slice of this highly profitable industry by becoming cloud storage resellers. Cloud storage reselling is a means for IT suppliers to create their own cloud platform for customers by partnering with existing cloud providers and reselling their product.
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12: Kubernetes Maturity, Cost Optimization, Automation & AI with Viktor Farcic

May 13, 2025 By Densify In Densify
Welcome to another episode of Densify Talks! Andrew Hillier has a fun and informative conversation with Viktor Farcic. Viktor considers himself a technology critic (think of the old muppet critics on the balcony) and rapscallion. We think he’s also quite the thought leader and author, with some very bold insights on technology that are worth hearing! See Viktor’s biography below for more information about him.
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90+ Cloud Computing Statistics: A 2025 Market Snapshot

May 12, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Cloud computing was already booming before 2020. But in the following two years, remote work flourished, and cloud adoption soared. The trend continues to accelerate — even faster now. Some companies have since returned to the office. Others are adopting hybrid models, balancing work-from-home and in-office. Yet, there’s more to the rise of cloud computing than remote working.
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Will AI Kill Our Talent Pipeline?

May 12, 2025 By Phil Pergola In CloudZero
As AI adoption increases, the race to real, durable AI value intensifies. Almost every organization that can use AI is using AI — but one of the most troubling trends I’ve observed revolves around talent. Right now, most organizations use AI to increase internal efficiencies — do quick research, write quick emails, start a new project at the 50% mark rather than the 0% mark, etc. But some executives I’ve talked to are taking a more aggressive approach.
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CloudorBust: Why U.S. Architects Are Racing to the Cloud

Cloud or Bust: Why U.S. Architects Are Racing to the Cloud

May 12, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Over the past decade the American architecture studio has moved from plotters and local servers to browser tabs and virtual desktops. What began as a trickle of webbased file sharing is now a torrent of cloud adoption that is reshaping how homes are imagined, costed, and delivered. In 2024, about 70 % of U.S. architecture firms report using cloudhosted Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and more than 61 % say a cloud deployment strategy is now their default for new projects.
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ilert

An ultimate step-by-step guide on Checkmk Cloud Monitoring

May 9, 2025 By Tim Nguyen Van In iLert
Checkmk launched Checkmk Cloud (SaaS) in February 2025, which is a fully managed, cloud-based version of their monitoring technology. This solution, designed for ease of use, allows enterprises to start monitoring their IT infrastructure with no installation, maintenance, or manual upgrades required. The SaaS version is compatible with both cloud-based and on-premises systems, bringing them together under a single, straightforward platform.
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cloudzero

How To Use Azure Budget Alerts To Avoid Surprise Bills

May 9, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
You spin up a few test environments. Someone forgets to shut one down. A cost spike hits your Azure bill. And no one saw it coming. Does this sound familiar? Surprise cloud bills are still a thing today. For teams trying to balance innovation with financial discipline, the Azure Budget feature offers a first line of defence against surprise cloud costs.
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Reducing MTTR with Cloud Pathfinder

May 8, 2025 By Kentik In Kentik
Learn how to quickly identify and resolve cloud connectivity issues with Kentik’s Cloud Pathfinder. We demonstrate how Cloud Pathfinder simplifies troubleshooting by automatically mapping cloud network paths, pinpointing misconfigured security rules or incorrect routes, and providing actionable insights powered by integrated AI analysis. Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) and gain instant visibility into your cloud infrastructure with Kentik.
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How to Control and Optimize Azure Costs Without Losing Visibility

May 8, 2025 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
This is the ninth post in our Azure Monitoring series, and it’s all about taking control of your cloud costs without losing visibility. We’ll unpack why Azure bills tend to spiral, where native tools fall short, and what it really takes to cut spend while keeping performance on point. You’ll walk away with practical ways to spot waste early, act fast, and stay ahead of surprise invoices. Missed the earlier posts? You can catch up anytime.
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The Azure Metrics That Actually Reduce Cloud Costs

May 8, 2025 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
This is the fourth blog in our Azure Monitoring series, and this time, we’re digging into cost efficiency. Azure makes it easy to scale, but just as easy to overspend. Idle VMs, forgotten disks, and silent data transfer fees add up fast. The result is budget overruns that catch teams off guard and force reactive cuts. This blog breaks down the Azure metrics that actually help you reduce waste, improve visibility, and keep cloud spend aligned with business priorities. Missed our earlier posts?
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upsun

Which hosting strategy wins for enterprise Magento?

May 8, 2025 By Guillaume Moigneu In Upsun
When you’re running an enterprise-level Magento store, you can’t afford to leave infrastructure decisions to chance. With large product catalogs, high transaction volumes, and complex integrations, your hosting choices can directly impact your bottom line—and your sanity. The right solution gives you the performance, reliability, and scalability you need while reducing complexities, maintenance overhead, and cost.
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Common Magento deployment pitfalls and how cloud automation fixes them

May 8, 2025 By Jared Wright In Upsun
Magento is a powerful eCommerce platform, trusted by businesses large and small for its flexibility and robust feature set. Yet, anyone who has managed a Magento project knows it can be an adventure—especially during deployment. Misconfigured environments, extension conflicts, and unpredictable performance are just a few issues that can turn a routine release into a hair-pulling session.
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Empowering Engineers To Act On Cloud Costs - Right From Where They Work

May 8, 2025 By Kevin Lamb In CloudZero
At CloudZero, our mission has always been clear: power efficient innovation in the cloud by connecting engineering decisions with business outcomes. But here’s the truth — we’re not just solving for visibility. We’re solving for action. In order to turn theoretical savings into actual waste elimination and tangible outcomes, you have to enable engineers to act on cost insights within the tools and workflows they already use. CloudZero’s new Jira integration does just that.
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Cloud quotas: How to make cloud management easy

May 8, 2025 By Geoffrin Edwin In Site24x7
In the past, a cloud architect's pain point was usually deciding between these two options: To tackle this confusion, major cloud service providers (CSPs) launched quotas (in their own words). To give you examples, here are the different terminologies used by the three major public CSPs: The main ingredient of a well-oiled cloud setup that significantly impacts cloud operations is understanding and managing cloud quotas, also known as service quotas.
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AWS Forecasting: A Practical How-To Guide

May 7, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Running cloud infrastructure without forecasting is a lot like operating a delivery company without checking the weather. You might plan for smooth traffic and sunny skies, only to be hit with a sudden storm, delays, and unexpected costs. The same happens when your cloud usage spikes and your AWS bill catches you off guard. For engineers, CTOs, and CFOs alike, AWS forecasting isn’t just about estimating future costs.
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Building trust in SaaS: balancing security, audibility, and speed of innovation

Building trust in SaaS: balancing security, audibility, and speed of innovation

May 7, 2025 By Balbodh Chahuan, Senior Product Manager at Smartsheet In OpsMatters
SaaS is an important model that has changed how organizations manage digital tools. From local software installation to models capable of handling the entire operations. Despite the importance of SaaS in terms of promoting innovation, trust is very important when it comes to customers accepting decisions. SaaS providers see trust as a critical business feature, not just a technical concern. Customers now demand clear visibility into the storage and usage of data. This has made standard certification and trusted security a part of the acquisition process. Sometimes businesses refuse to use a SaaS feature that does not have clear agreements with security policies.
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How to decide between cloud and on-premise monitoring

May 6, 2025 By Dave Swersky In Raygun
Application performance monitoring systems tend to be available in two modes: on-premise and cloud-based SaaS. Which is the "right" choice? Well, it depends on your situation, but overall cloud-based SaaS offerings have significant benefits when compared to on-premise. However, it's not always so simple. The right selection depends on the facts on the ground. Using my experience working for a large-scale cloud solutions department, I've put together some key things you'll want to consider before you make a decision, starting with some benefits and challenges.
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A Guide To AWS Cost Allocation Tags And When To Use Them

May 6, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Knowing only how much you spent on your AWS bill each month isn’t enough to provide the cost visibility you need to make cost-aware engineering and business decisions. It’s why AWS introduced tags. Tags enable AWS users to label their resources to track cost and usage in the vast AWS infrastructure. Tagging helps you understand who, what, and why your cloud spend is changing.
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Top Cloud Cost News From April 2025

May 6, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Can you believe one-third of 2025 is already behind us? Just in case the Easter Bunny didn’t leave anything good in your basket this year, we’ll treat you to a little Easter egg — if you’re willing to follow the clues — along with the scoop from this past month. Here’s what you might have missed in April: Read on for the details!
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Internxt

What Is Hot Cloud Storage and Is It The Right Solution for You?

May 6, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
Feeling hot hot hot? If you’re interested in knowing what is hot cloud storage, you’re in the right place. Hot or cold storage are a common way to describe different kinds of storage, but what do they mean? Hot or cold storage describes how easily or quickly you can access your data, hot being the quickest, and cold being the slowest, and is for data you rarely need.
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Connecting DigitalOcean and AWS

May 6, 2025 By Megaport In Megaport
Connecting DigitalOcean and AWS with Megaport In this demo, Kevin Dresser, Solution Architect at Megaport, shows you how to connect your infrastructure across DigitalOcean and AWS using a Megaport Cloud Router (MCR). You’ll learn how to: Deploy a Cloud Router Create a virtual connection (VXC) to DigitalOcean via Partner Network Connect Set up a connection to AWS via Direct Connect Configure BGP and validate route learning Achieve seamless, private connectivity between cloud environments.
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Smart Strategies for Scaling Your Website Hosting as Your Business Grows

Smart Strategies for Scaling Your Website Hosting as Your Business Grows

May 6, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
For small businesses, website growth presents both opportunities and challenges. As visitor numbers increase and your site adds functionality, the hosting plan that once served you perfectly may become a limitation rather than an asset. Understanding when and how to upgrade your hosting environment is critical to maintaining performance, security, and the overall user experience that keeps customers coming back. This guide will help you recognize the signs it's time to scale up and navigate the options available for your growing business.
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cloudzero

2025 Cloud Computing Market Size And Trends

May 5, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Over the next few years, the cloud computing market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.3%. Cloud-based services are becoming increasingly popular among businesses of all sizes, contributing to the market’s growth. When you consider the other benefits involved, that makes a lot of sense for business.
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Logz.io Integration for AWS and Kubernetes Observability

May 5, 2025 By Jade Lassery In logz.io
Ever feel like you’re flying blind in your AWS environment? You’re not alone. In the sprawling universe of microservices, containers, and serverless functions, trying to troubleshoot without proper observability is like trying to find a bug in a datacenter… with the lights off… while wearing sunglasses.
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cloudzero

AWS Data Transfer Pricing Guide And How To Reduce Costs

May 2, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
You’re probably familiar with finding surprise, hidden charges if you’ve been using the cloud for a while. Data transfer fees are the most common source of unanticipated Amazon Web Services (AWS) charges. They can be so costly that some companies, like Netflix and Pinterest, have spent fortunes on data transfer fees — up to $30 million a year. In this post, we’ll share tips for navigating AWS data transfer pricing and how you can optimize costs.
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Internxt

May The 4th Be With You: The Internet In Space and Star Wars Universe

May 2, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
Happy May the 4th be with you day! For all you lovers of Star Wars, technology, or space exploration, we've created this article to show examples of how the internet was used in space in your favorite Star Wars films, prequels, sequels, and TV shows. We will then return to Earth to see how the internet in space is currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station and what the future holds for the internet in space due to current advances in satellite internet. But before we jump in...
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pulsant

Shift Left: The Public to Private Cloud Evolution

May 1, 2025 By Pulsant In Pulsant
We're taking a look at our clients' journey to a hybrid-cloud architecture, exploring the benefits private cloud boasts over public, and how this helps an organisation's digital transformation. In a previous post, we explored the drivers behind an organisation moving from an on-premise strategy to the use of private clouds.
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Densify and Nutanix Partner to Deliver AI-Driven, Fully Automated Kubernetes Optimization

May 1, 2025 By Densify In Densify
We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Nutanix, integrating Densify’s AI-powered Kubernetes optimization solution, Kubex, with the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). This collaboration brings together two leading technologies to radically improve how enterprise Kubernetes environments are managed—through AI-driven insights and end-to-end automation of resource optimization.
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Azure DevOps agent pools: diving deeper

May 1, 2025 By John Hayes In Squared Up
Most of the time the build and deployment pipelines we create will run on compute provided by the Azure DevOps cloud and the only decision we need to make is whether to select a Windows or Linux Agent. Sometimes though, the specification for the VM that Azure DevOps spins up may not be right for our needs. We may need more memory or a particular OS version. This is when custom agents and Agent Pools come into play.
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