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Introducing MicroCloud Cluster Manager

Mar 20, 2026 By Miona Aleksic In Canonical
Today, we’re excited to introduce the beta release of MicroCloud Cluster Manager, a new way to discover, organize, and operate your MicroCloud environments from a single, unified interface. MicroCloud is an open source cloud platform that makes it simple to create lightweight, resilient clusters anywhere. As teams scale from one cluster to many, visibility and coordination quickly become essential. Cluster Manager is built to solve exactly that.
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Kubernetes Cost Optimization Install | How to Quickly Download Pepperdata Software on Your Own

Mar 20, 2026 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Installing kubernetes cost optimization software is typically time consuming and a drain on engineering teams. Pepperdata’s self-service install can get you started optimizing with just a few steps – completely on your own.
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FinOps Leaders Who Will Win The AI Era Are Already Experimenting

Mar 20, 2026 By Ben Austin In CloudZero
Engineering teams are shipping faster than ever. AI coding tools like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex have quietly removed some of the biggest friction points in the development cycle — and the result is that FinOps teams are being asked to keep up with a pace most practitioners haven’t fully reckoned with yet. That acceleration has a cost consequence. More shipping means more services, more experiments, more infrastructure spun up without review cycles.
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What's New in Turbo360 - AI agents for Azure cost optimization, Azure cost pulse summary report...

Mar 19, 2026 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Turbo360 brings a suite of enhancements added to elevate your Azure management experience. Hit play to hear what's in store for this month. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:13 - Cost Pulse Summary Report 00:00:49 - Configuring Cost Pulse Summary 00:01:17 - New AI Agents (4 New Agents) 00:01:54 - Accessing AI Agents 00:02:18 - Related Resources Feature 00:02:40 - Budget Planner 00:02:59 - Setting Up Budget Planner Permissions 00:03:11 - Multi-Subscription Onboarding 00:03:43 - AI Agents Role-Based Access 00:04:10 - New RA-GRS Optimization Recommendation 00:04:30 - Summary & Call to Action.
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Agentic AI at Scale: Building the Kubex Agentic AI Platform

Mar 19, 2026 By Kubex In Densify
In the modern cloud infrastructure landscape, we don’t have a data problem; we have an actionable interpretation gap. Engineering teams are often drowning in metrics that describe a crisis without providing a clear path to remediation. Traditional FinOps, SRE, and DevOps work has become a reactive loop of dashboard-watching and manual firefighting.
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FinOps In Action Playbook For Engineering Personas

Mar 19, 2026 By Thalia Elie In CloudZero
In 2025, many teams built strong FinOps foundations: These practices created visibility and control. Now it’s time to elevate. FinOps in Action is a three-part series focused on applying that foundation in real engineering scenarios. Each post highlights a different persona and shows how to move from visibility to operational discipline. Today, we focus on Engineering. Engineering teams influence cost through architecture decisions, scaling policies, and workload design.
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Amazon Lex Pricing in 2026 Explained (And Practical Cost Saving Tips to Use Immediately)

Mar 19, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
If your SaaS product handles 1 million chatbot interactions per month, Amazon Lex alone could cost between $4,000 and $7,500. That range assumes current Amazon Lex V2 pricing of about $0.00075 per text request and $0.004 per speech request. Multiply the requests by the rate, and you’re done. Or are you? Conversational AI services rarely behave that neatly in production — and that includes AWS Lex. Amazon Lex is AWS’s conversational AI service for building chatbots.
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Webinar Recap: Building The Finance Function For The Future

Mar 19, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Women leaders from CloudZero, Campfire, and Preql AI sat down to talk about what it actually takes to modernize finance in 2026 — AI spend, smarter tooling, and the skills that matter now for finance practitioners and executives looking to manage cloud and AI spend in a rapidly changing and unpredictable financial environment. On March 19, 2026, CloudZero and Campfire co-hosted a virtual panel in honor of International Women’s Month, called Building the Finance Function for the Future.
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The Future of UK Digital Infrastructure | Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland Interview

Mar 19, 2026 By PulsantUK In Pulsant
In the latest Platform Insight interview, Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland discusses Pulsant’s evolution into the only truly UK‑wide, interconnected data centre platform. The conversation with Nicola Hayes of @PlatformMarketsGroup explores the growing momentum behind edge and sovereign infrastructure, and why real‑world enterprise demand is shaping the next phase of AI. If you want to understand where the UK digital infrastructure landscape is heading – and why regional platforms matter more than ever – this is a must‑watch.
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