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ZTNA Security for Cloud Application Access: A Practical Overview

Nowadays, the average enterprise runs hundreds of cloud applications spanning from software-as-a-service platforms, infrastructure hosted in public cloud accounts, to internally built applications deployed on cloud infrastructure. So each of these has a different login flow, a different permission model, and an often completely independent definition of what a secure session looks like.

Shipped: Explorer refresh: show more, scroll less

CloudZero Explorer answers a cost question in two parts. The chart shows what your spend did and the table underneath shows which service, account, or team did it. Until now, the chart pushed the table below the fold, and actions like creating a View or checking Anomalies were buried multiple clicks deep. Now the chart and table share the screen and a new right rail puts Favorites, Views, Anomalies and Insights one click away without covering your data.

Turn every branch into a production-like environment, automatically

You push a branch. If your team is like most, that branch now waits: for the shared staging server to free up, for someone to remember to refresh the seed data, for whoever broke staging last to fix it. By the time you actually test your change, you're testing it in an environment that's drifted from production in ways nobody fully tracked. The alternative isn't a better staging server. It doesn't need one.

How task containers give AI agents real infrastructure without idle cost

Infrastructure for AI agents usually forces a choice between two bad options. A sandbox is safe but blind, cut off from the data and services that would make the agent's output useful. Full access means paying to keep a container idle between runs, waiting on a prompt that might not arrive for hours. Task containers, which Upsun released on August 12, 2026, are built to avoid that choice. A task container is a single-purpose container defined in a project's.upsun/config.yaml file.

Shipped: A changelog that keeps up with how fast we ship

When the changelog doesn’t keep pace with the product, two things can happen. One, you keep working around something that was already fixed weeks ago. Or two, a behavior changes, you assume it’s a bug, and you spend an afternoon on triage and a support ticket before learning it was an intentional improvement. CloudZero now ships around 30 improvements a week, a pace driven by the Next Gen Platform and the AI-first approach we’re building for our customers.

Your preview environment is lying to you without production data

A preview link with an empty database tells you almost nothing about a content-managed site. Most teams find that out the expensive way, in front of a client. In this Product Highlights conversation, Andrew Kester, a senior cloud support engineer at Upsun whose team handles everything from product questions to sites under active attack, twenty four hours a day, every day of the year, breaks down why cloning services and data into every environment is the feature he would have paid for at his old agency job. His take: "You click a button. We clone your services. We clone the data." We get into.

Stop paying for compute that does nothing six days a week

Most teams are paying for a container that stays awake all week to run one job on Friday. Task containers are the fix: they spin up on an API call, run exactly one command, then remove themselves. In this Product Highlights conversation, Corey Dockendorf, a senior solutions architect at Upsun with most of 25 years in tech behind him and five at the company, breaks down how ephemeral task containers cut idle spend and give AI agents production context without production access. His take: "They spin up when they're triggered directly by an API call.

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.

Private cloud vs. Public cloud: Which delivers greater control and flexibility?

As businesses evolve in today’s digital landscape, the need for efficient and scalable computing resources has become paramount. In the early days of the Internet, large corporations would build or rent out large data centers to run their applications and serve customers. This was great as they could use dedicated hardware and expand as they pleased.