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Azure status integration is here!

Oct 29, 2025 By Valeria Kurolapova In StatusGator
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Azure status integration, bringing Microsoft Azure’s real-time service health and incident data directly into your StatusGator dashboard and status page. With this new integration, StatusGator automatically imports Azure outages and service status updates from your Azure subscription — giving you a complete, centralized view of your cloud infrastructure alongside every other service you monitor.
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Open Source Cloud Orchestration Tools Compared

Oct 29, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Before 2011, cloud infrastructure was still new. AWS had launched EC2 and S3 in 2006. But to deploy applications, engineers had to manually spin up servers, configure storage, and set up networking — all by hand or with custom scripts. There were early configuration management tools, such as Chef and Puppet, but those didn’t offer full cloud orchestration. Then in 2011, AWS launched AWS CloudFormation as the first major orchestration tool.
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CEO Diaries: Not All AI Talent Is Alike

Oct 29, 2025 By Phil Pergola In CloudZero
If Meta’s (now halted) nine-figure AI talent poaching scheme was any indication, the AI talent market is pretty frothy. The number of AI-related job postings has roughly tripled since 2019, and the average salary has more than doubled (Bain). The race is on for companies to find the fastest, most sustainable routes to AI-driven business value; all companies, but especially software companies, are hotly pursuing racers. But despite what Zuckerberg & Co.
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Azure Cost Optimization: Best Practices for Cloud Solution Providers

Oct 29, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this episode, we explore practical Azure cost management strategies tailored for Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). The conversation dives into cost visibility, optimization techniques, and billing transparency, helping CSPs improve margins and deliver more value to their customers. Featuring experts from West Coast, a leading CSP, including James Reed (Azure Sales Manager) and Mitchell G. (Azure Sales Specialist), along with Mike Stevenson, the discussion highlights real-world insights from the partner ecosystem.
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Whose Fault Is It When the Cloud Fails? Does It Matter?

Oct 29, 2025 By Jeremy Rossbach In Broadcom
On Monday, October 20th, a significant portion of the digital services we use every day became inaccessible. For hours, banking, communication, and entertainment applications were unavailable. The root cause was later identified as a major outage within Amazon Web Services (AWS), the infrastructure that powers a vast number of online services. The initial response for any business affected by such an event is a frantic effort to diagnose the problem. Is it our application? Is our network down?
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How FinTech Is Pushing the Boundaries of Intelligent Operations

How FinTech Is Pushing the Boundaries of Intelligent Operations

Oct 29, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In the last decade, the financial technology (FinTech) industry has evolved from a promising disruptor to a powerful force reshaping global business operations. What began as a wave of startups offering digital payments and online banking has now transformed into a full-fledged ecosystem of automation, data intelligence, and artificial decision-making.
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The CFO's Guide To Accurate Cost Allocation

Oct 28, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero
Every finance team knows this pain. The cloud bill continues to grow, but the numbers don’t quite add up. Engineering swears their usage reports are accurate. But when you ask, “Which product or customer drove last month’s 18% cost increase?” things go quiet. That silence usually means one thing. Inaccurate cost allocation. Native cloud cost allocation tools from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud can help. However, they often stop at the average this or average that layer.
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How FOCUS Is Shaping The Next Era Of Cloud Cost Optimization

Oct 28, 2025 By Larry Advey In CloudZero
SaaS, AI, and technology spending today looks like a more intense version of how it was a decade ago when everyone first migrated to the cloud. The mentality was and, at some companies, still is to build build build and worry about controlling expenditures and optimizing costs later. We’re seeing astronomical amounts of money being raised by brand-new AI businesses that barely even existed a couple of years ago. More than $145 billion has been raised for U.S.
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Comparing Ways to Connect to AWS

Oct 28, 2025 By Dan Pfyl In Megaport
Not sure how to connect to this leading cloud provider? Compare options to pick the best one for your business. Curious about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the best ways to connect? AWS is a hybrid cloud provider with customized, scalable, cloud-based packages. These encompass: Whether you’re part of a multinational corporation or a small startup, you can choose among various AWS services to meet your needs.
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