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Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map, a public service that uses Kentik Synthetics to continuously measure latency between the regions of the biggest cloud providers.

Your IT infrastructure, resources, and components play a crucial role in your system performance, security, and overall health. Provisioning is often one of the very first steps toward setting up the right environment for your workload requirements – both locally and in the cloud. Here’s a handy guide to how provisioning works in IT. We’ll also share a tool to help you prevent overprovisioning and waste by automating provisioning in the cloud.

Chances are, you've heard one of the main promises of serverless compute: "you only pay for what you use". While convenient when starting a new project, once you start to get continuous usage on that compute, you start to realize you're paying a hefty premium for that convenience. If you're using AWS Lambda like I am, chances are that "for what you use" part isn't completely true either.

In an era where modern commerce is inseparable from technology, digital transformation has become crucial for businesses to survive and thrive in all markets. Scotland has led the way in understanding the impact of this shift. In August 2023, the Independent Expert Group (IEG) on Unlocking the Value of Data delivered its report to the Digital Directorate, covering private sector use of public sector personal data.

The 2023 National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) report into the UK legal sector warns that a failure to: “maintain appropriate cyber security measures… can have exceptionally negative consequences for a legal practice and its clients". Current figures cite that 65% of UK law firms have been victims of cyber incidents . Elsewhere, another report revealed that 72% - almost three-quarters - of UK-headquartered law firms have at least one employee password on the dark web.

The Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module is designed to shift support “left,” meaning it empowers support operators to identify and address issues earlier in the process by providing them with a business-friendly view of the underlying complex infrastructure. This makes it easier for operators to understand and manage critical processes without needing to have expert skills in the technical complexities of Azure.

Over the last few years, cloud-native has become a popular buzzword in the tech industry. There are cloud-native applications, cloud-native network functions, even cloud-native storage. But, like many buzzwords, the true meaning of cloud-native has itself become clouded by overuse.

Snowflake is special for several reasons. To begin with, its architecture separates storage and compute, making it fast, highly scalable, and efficient. Snowflake’s cloud-native, SaaS, and serverless approach also means you don’t have to worry about provisioning servers on-premises. Instead, you just need a Snowflake subscription; their team will handle the handy work on your behalf. At CloudZero, we use Snowflake for these and several more reasons.