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What Is BigQuery? A Guide To How It Works And Costs

Nov 7, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Data has exploded — and so have the challenges that come with it. Every click, transaction, and sensor ping generates mountains of data that traditional databases can’t handle. That’s why more than 94% of organizations now rely on cloud platforms, according to CloudZero’s 2025 cloud report. The goal isn’t just to store data, but rather, to make sense of it fast. And this is exactly where tools such as Google BigQuery step in.
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Reliability lessons from the 2025 AWS DynamoDB outage

Nov 7, 2025 By Gavin Cahill In Gremlin
On October 19th and 20th, 2025, the AWS region US-EAST-1 suffered a massive outage. What started with a 3-hour Amazon DynamoDB outage from a DNS issue led to an Amazon EC2 outage that lasted an additional 12 hours before normal service was restored. Over the course of the outage, there were over 17 million outage reports as companies like Snapchat, Roblox, Amazon, Reddit, Venmo, and more were impacted.
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Dropbox vs OneDrive 2025 Comparison

Nov 6, 2025 By Cadi Silla In Internxt
As more and more people rely on cloud storage to store and share their files, it becomes important to choose the right cloud storage service that suits your needs. However, when choosing which cloud storage is right for you, you may be asking yourself the following questions: For this article, we will answer all these questions and more. Plus, if you’re considering other providers, we will also cover other alternatives that offer the same cloud storage features and more.
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How to Optimize Azure Costs and Improve Cloud Efficiency with FinOps

Nov 6, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, Dustin Mullenix from KPMG talks about his role leading a FinOps team that handles Azure spend for KPMG's audit business. He shares how internal FinOps teams work with consulting groups, the challenges of Azure's service tiers like managed disks and SQL options, and the trade-offs between cost and performance. Dustin discusses how to handle cost changes, manage knowledge in a big company, this talk is useful for anyone dealing with cloud costs in a large setup.
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Catch and remediate ECS issues faster with default monitors and the ECS Explorer

Nov 6, 2025 By Sumedha Mehta In Datadog
Organizations that run applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) often juggle signals across container and task metrics, logs, and events while they hunt for the change or condition that broke a deployment. This work adds operational overhead and extends incident timelines as teams switch between tools and manually correlate symptoms.
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The High Cost of Vendor Lock-In in Cloud Computing and How to Avoid it

Nov 6, 2025 By Mélanie Dallé In Qovery
Cloud vendor lock-in threatens agility and raises costs. Discover the high price of proprietary services, egress fees, and technical entrenchment, plus the strategic roadmap to escape. Learn how embracing open standards, Kubernetes, and an exit strategy from day one ensures long-term flexibility and control.
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SharePoint Storage Limit Warning

Nov 5, 2025 By Mark In SmiKar Software
When your Microsoft 365 tenant reaches the SharePoint storage limit, the impact is immediate. File uploads start failing, Teams sites stop provisioning, indexing slows down, and storage overage charges begin applying automatically. For organisations storing large volumes of documents, drawings, media files, or project data, hitting the SharePoint capacity threshold can become a recurring and expensive problem—especially when underlying retention policies prevent deletion.
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The Ultimate Azure FinOps Guide: From Visibility to Optimization

Nov 5, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast, host Michael chats with Anderson Oliveira, author of "FinOps Ultimate Guide for Azure." Anderson, a chemical engineer turned IT project manager, explains his journey into FinOps and breaks down his book, which focuses on organizing teams, measuring costs, tracking value, and building efficient practices on Azure. They discuss common challenges like stakeholder friction, the shift from CapEx to OpEx, and why focusing on value over just cutting costs is key for long-term success.
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