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Upsun recognized for third consecutive year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

Upsun acknowledged for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Upsun is proud to be recognized for a third year in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms alongside other evaluated CNAP platforms. Upsun empowers development teams to ship better software, faster, not just by simplifying infrastructure management, but by rethinking how the entire software development lifecycle works in an era of AI-powered development.

Instrument serverless apps with agentic onboarding

Serverless platforms like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run, and Azure Container Apps let teams run applications without managing infrastructure. However, getting full visibility into those workloads has traditionally required a lot of manual setup. A single team may deploy serverless applications across multiple clouds by using tools such as Terraform, AWS SAM, AWS CDK, and the Serverless Framework. Each of these platforms, runtimes, and deployment tools requires its own instrumentation steps.

FinOps Savings Optimization: Stop Overspending, Start Saving | Harness Blog

Traditional FinOps focuses on cutting overspend, but the real opportunity lies in maximizing savings you're missing. This paradigm shift reframes cloud cost management as a proactive savings optimization strategy rather than reactive spend control, helping organizations unlock hidden cost efficiency through governance, automation, and continuous optimization practices. Cloud spend is up 40% year-over-year. Your CFO wants answers.

Introducing the redesigned deployments experience

You shouldn’t have to hunt through a cluttered dashboard to understand where your code is deployed. The Deployments page is where teams turn for a quick answer: what is in test, what is in staging, what reached production, and what needs attention right now. The older page made that harder than it needed to be. Our new Pipelines Deployments page makes it easier to scan, filter, and act on.

AI agent cost: what agents really cost to run

AI agent cost in 2026 is mostly a consumption bill, not a subscription. Running an agent costs anywhere from fractions of a cent for a simple routed task to $5 or more for a complex multi-step job, because one request can trigger 3 to 10 model calls behind the scenes. Average production deployments land between $3,200 and $13,000 per month in operational spend. Here is where that money actually goes.

Shipped: Stop guessing why that billing connection exists

Every team with more than a few data connections has had this moment: someone opens the connections list, points at one, and asks “what is this for?” The answer lives in a former teammate’s head or in a Slack thread. And cleaning up the wrong connection can break cost ingestion. Now each connection can carry a note that explains why it exists, and anyone who opens the connection sees it.

AI Model Drift: How to Keep Models Reliable

AI model drift is when an AI system's performance and accuracy degrades over time because the data, user behavior, or business environment has changed since the model was trained or evaluated. Even if latency, uptime, and infrastructure metrics remain healthy, model quality can quietly decline, leading to less accurate predictions, inconsistent responses, and reduced user trust.

AI can't correlate what was never standardized

Steve Flanders (Senior Director of Engineering, Splunk) makes the case that AI can't save an observability stack that never agreed on a standard. Mix formats across metrics and logs, and AI stops correlating and starts guessing, which means you either make the wrong call or miss the answer you actually needed. OpenTelemetry is one fix, but Prometheus and Fluentd work too. The standard matters more than which one you pick.