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Cloud Security Best Practices Every Company Should Follow

As more businesses move their data, applications, and daily operations to the cloud, securing that environment has become a top priority. Cloud platforms offer flexibility, scalability, and cost savings, but they also introduce shared responsibility-meaning both the provider and the business must play a role in keeping systems safe. Understanding essential cloud security best practices helps organizations reduce risk, protect sensitive information, and maintain compliance in an increasingly digital world.

AWS And Azure Outages Will Recur - Here's How You Ensure Resilience

The cloud has long promised limitless scalability and near-perfect uptime. But if you tried to access your Microsoft 365 dashboard or recline your smart bed last week, and got nothing but a spinning icon, you weren’t alone. In the span of 10 days, both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure Cloud suffered widespread outages that rippled across industries.

KubeCon Atlanta Signals Key Shift: From Cloud Cost To Value Engineering

After three days of demos, sessions, and hallway conversations at KubeCon Atlanta, one thing became clear to CloudZero CTO Erik Peterson: the cloud-native world is shifting from cost control to value engineering. Teams aren’t just fighting bills anymore. They’re fighting complexity, GPU scarcity, Kubernetes sprawl, and pressure from the business to justify every dollar of technical investment. And this year’s KubeCon attendees? They were ready for those conversations.

Elasticsearch: The context engine for grounding and orchestration in Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

The rise of large language models (LLMs) and agentic applications promises to transform enterprise workflows. Yet, the core challenge remains: How do we ensure these powerful agents generate accurate, relevant, and trustworthy responses based on proprietary enterprise data rather than relying solely on their generic training knowledge? The answer lies in grounding — connecting the LLM to verified, trusted, and up-to-date information.

Azure Monitor offers Grafana dashboards natively for immediate, real-time operational monitoring

Editor’s note: This blog originally published in May 2025 when Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana became available in public preview. It was updated in November 2025 to reflect general availability. The Grafanaverse just got a little bit bigger.

AI API Aggregation: Managing Costs And Complexity Across Multiple LLMs

Running multiple LLMs without aggregation can feel like managing five different clouds with no dashboard. Sure, you can make it work, but you won’t like the bill. And most SaaS teams didn’t start with a multi-LLM strategy. It just happened. You added one model for reasoning, another for summarization, or maybe a fine-tuned version for customer support. Fast-forward six months, and your AI stack looks like a tangle of APIs. And each charges tokens on its own terms.

3 Signals From KubeCon Atlanta On Where Kubernetes Is Heading Next

KubeCon Atlanta 2025 felt different this year — and CloudZero had a full team on the ground to capture it. Engineers, product leaders, sales reps, and CTO Erik Peterson spent three days embedded across the show floor. Their vantage points were complementary: the outbound conversations, the inbound questions, the demos, the technical deep-dives, and the quieter moments between sessions. Five perspectives stood out.

Introducing the New Cloud Dedicated Admin UI

InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated provides hosted and managed InfluxDB Cloud clusters in a single-tenant environment and is optimized to handle high write and query loads. Today, InfluxData is releasing a visual overhaul and new features for its Admin UI. Among the recent updates are live observability for customer clusters, overhauled site navigation, and improved visibility into table schemas.