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Why AI agents don't need infrastructure running 24/7

AI agents don't need a server sitting there while they wait for the next prompt. They need infrastructure that shows up, does the job, and disappears. In this Product Highlights conversation, Nicolas Gommenginger, director of product at Upsun with more than four years leading the platform's core functionality, breaks down Upsun's newest primitive: task containers. His take: "What really triggered us to go ahead and implement it is the rise of AI agents, because tasks are something ideal for running them." We get into.

The Waiting Game for Data Centre Capacity (And How UK Businesses Can Beat It)

UK data centre occupancy hit 91% in 2024, according to Arizton market data, and new capacity is not arriving fast enough to close the gap. Grid connection wait times for new projects now run between five and 15 years, reports Data Center Dynamics, and Savills has attributed the 11% year-on-year drop in new capacity delivery to power constraints rather than a lack of demand or investment. Rising wholesale energy costs are addingpressure to an already tight market.

Trace AWS Lambda durable functions with Datadog

AWS Lambda durable functions let you build long-running, multi-step workflows for use cases such as payment processing, order fulfillment, and AI workflows with human approval. A single durable execution can pause for a wait or callback, retry failed work, and resume in a fresh Lambda invocation without losing its state. The strong resilience provided by durable executions, however, creates an observability challenge because each invocation produces its own telemetry data.

Shipped: Personalized cost access, powered by SSO

Instead of building a separate role for every team, region, or department, admins can create a single role that automatically personalizes access for each user based on their SSO attributes. Someone moves teams or a new group gets created, and the new access takes effect at their next login with no CloudZero configuration. As AI spend grows, more companies are looking to give teams visibility into their own AI costs without exposing every individual’s usage across the org.

What build-versus-buy actually looks like in agentic engineering

Most build-versus-buy debates assume you're choosing once, at the start, and living with it. Agentic engineering doesn't work that way. The decision shows up at every layer of the stack, and the teams getting it right aren't the ones who picked "build" or "buy" as a philosophy. They're the ones who know which layer is which.

HOA Tech Trends: Managing Communities Faster

Community association leaders face growing administrative demands as modern neighborhood operations become more intricate. Modern technology helps volunteers and board members manage daily tasks with far greater speed and precision. Adopting tailored software reduces manual paperwork and improves operational clarity across the entire neighborhood. Leaders can allocate time toward long range planning instead of spending late evenings chasing routine documents and payment receipts.

Best Azure monitoring tools: Compare the leading solutions

Microsoft Azure has become one of the most widely adopted cloud platforms for running business applications, databases, containers, analytics workloads, and enterprise services. Modern Azure environments now extend far beyond virtual machines, encompassing services such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL Database, Azure Functions, storage accounts, networking services, and serverless applications.

Migration feasibility checklist for IT leaders

Feasibility is a prioritization question that comes before strategy. The five-question check produces a "now, later, or fix blockers first", before anyone touches a target architecture. Strategy earns its place once feasibility returns "now." Feasibility comes before strategy. Before anyone designs a target architecture, builds a runbook, or commits to a multicloud operating model, the question is whether the migration is the right move now, and what would make it fail.

Cloud cost management: how repatriation improves control for UK enterprises

Hyperscale providers are nothing if not consistent in their temptation of enterprise IT buyers. They bombard leaders with a simple message: migrate to the public cloud, shut down data centres, and enjoy both financial savings and operational agility. However, as UK enterprises have scaled their digital footprints, a more nuanced reality has bitten. Public cloud costs have swollen.