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Cloud Migration Strategies, the 6 Rs, and How to Avoid Getting Stuck Mid-Move

Sep 14, 2026 By Aykut Bulgu In Control Plane
Consider a platform team that spends four months building a thorough migration plan. Its pilot, a stateless order-status API, runs on AWS within three weeks. Six months later, that API is still the only workload in the cloud. In this scenario, the blockers are not exotic technical failures.
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Shipped: Know what you actually pay per token on OpenAI

Sep 14, 2026 By Kevin Lamb In CloudZero
Picture two teams running the same million input tokens through the same model. One team’s tokens are cache hits, queued through the batch API. The other team’s are fresh, sent live. On a current-generation OpenAI model, cached input runs about a tenth the price of a fresh token, and batch processing cuts whatever’s left in half. Stack the two: at a list rate of $2 per million tokens, one team’s bill comes to 10 cents, the other’s to two dollars.
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Are AI agents about to break cloud computing?

Sep 14, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
AI agents can write code and run tools on their own now. The problem is they still need somewhere to actually do it. exe.dev's David Crawshaw joins Michael Reid to break down why persistent virtual machines might become the backbone of agentic AI, and what happens to cloud economics when one person is running dozens of agents at once.
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Compliance guardrails for regulated delivery

Sep 14, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
One multinational running on Upsun operates more than 400 websites. Each subsidiary has its own sites, its own team, its own release schedule, and its own local requirements. What they share is one infrastructure control layer: the same access model, the same encryption defaults, the same activity records, the same region and backup policy on every project. Adding the 401st site does not add a 401st set of infrastructure controls for someone to review.
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From automotive repair to data centres

Sep 14, 2026 By Pulsant In Pulsant
Blagomir Petrakiev, Data Centre Services Engineer in Maidenhead, made the move from automotive customer service to data centre operations after studying for his Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. In this Q&A, Blagomir shares what it’s like working behind the scenes at Pulsant, from infrastructure checks and remote hands tasks to learning new skills and building a career in digital infrastructure.
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How is the SaaS Market Performing in 2026?

How is the SaaS Market Performing in 2026?

Sep 14, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Software as a Service (SaaS) dominates corporate technology purchases in 2026. The cloud powers communications, finance, customer management, analytics, cybersecurity, HR, and more. Software spending is soaring, but purchasers choose value-based subscriptions. Business conditions affect SaaS enterprises. Higher costs, shifting technology spending, mergers, and corporate shutdowns limit demand but also create opportunities. A company shutdown 2026 report might cover software spend, customer retention, and investment trends. Gartner anticipated $1.47 trillion in software spending in July 2026, up 15.5% from July 2025.
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harness

Why engineers ignore cloud costs, and how AI Cost Management Agents fix it

Sep 11, 2026 By Kelsey Rosen In Harness
Engineers ignore cloud costs because of broken feedback loops, not apathy. Learn what AI cost management is, why AEO matters more than ever, and how a cost management agent embeds accountability directly into engineering workflows. Engineers ignore cloud costs because cost data arrives too late and too disconnected from their workflow to act on.
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cloudzero

Best LLM gateways in 2026: 30+ AI gateways compared on cost control

Sep 11, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
An LLM gateway is a proxy that sits between your applications and model providers, handling routing, failover, caching, and cost controls through one API. The strongest picks in 2026: LiteLLM for self-hosted control, OpenRouter for instant multi-model access, Portkey for managed governance, and Bifrost for production-scale throughput. Enterprises spent $37 billion on generative AI in 2025, a 3.2x jump in one year, per Menlo Ventures.
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Ubuntu Pro in-place upgrades for Virtual Machine Scale Sets on Azure

Sep 11, 2026 By Jehudi In Canonical
You can now upgrade Ubuntu Server Virtual Machine Scale Sets on Azure to Ubuntu Pro without rebuilding the set. Your instances keep serving traffic. The change is a license update, not a new image. Users could already perform in-place upgrades to Ubuntu Pro for individual VMs. Now, we’re extending the feature to scale sets – groups of load balanced virtual machines that you can manage as a single unit.
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