Top Cloud Cost News From October 2025
Last month was certainly eventful. (If you use AWS or Azure, you probably already know what we’re talking about). But in case you missed it, here are the must-see headlines from October 2025.
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SharePoint Storage Limit Warning
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.
The true cost of cloud in India: Challenges and opportunities
This blog is based on our research done as part of our white paper, The Cost of Cloud 2025 - India Edition. Research was conducted with over 600 Indian tech professionals to create a comprehensive analysis of the Indian cloud market.
The Ultimate Azure FinOps Guide: From Visibility to Optimization
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.
Azure VM utils now included in Ubuntu: boosting cloud workloads
Ubuntu images on Microsoft Azure have recently started shipping with the open source package azure-vm-utils included by default. Azure VM utils is a package that provides essential utilities and udev rules to optimize the Linux experience on Azure. This change results in more reliable disks, smoother networking on accelerated setups, and fewer tweaks to get things running. Here’s what you need to know.
Densify Releases New MCP Server to Bring AI-Driven Resource & GPU Optimization to Platform Teams
As excitement builds for KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, Densify has released its latest innovation for Kubernetes and AI-driven infrastructure resource management: the Densify Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. This new capability enables organizations to securely integrate Densify’s Kubex resource optimization intelligence directly into popular LLM-powered tools — including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and Gemini CLI.
The first Global Virtual Cloud - Control Plane (CPLN)
They can now confidently run their workloads in a multi-cloud topology WITHOUT the pain and complexity people associate with multi-cloud.. If you need 99.999% availability and ultra-low latency. Control Plane is your ticket to rise above the clouds.
Is Cloud-Based Receipt Software the Smart Choice?
In the current digital space, businesses are constantly looking for solutions that can help them save time and money. One such solution is cloud-based receipt software. It provides a way for consumers to move away from paper receipts, but does it make sense for organizations wanting to modernize?
October 2025 Azure outage: How StatusGator detected it first
When Azure Front Door began to fail on October 29, 2025, hundreds of downstream services, including Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, and Azure SQL, went dark. While Microsoft didn’t publicly acknowledge the issue until 12:35 PM ET, StatusGator dashboards were already lighting up nearly 50 minutes earlier. StatusGator notified its subscribers of an Azure outage 42 minutes prior to the official status page at 11:53 AM ET.
What Is AWS Step Functions? A Complete Guide
Imagine you are building an e-commerce app. Every time a customer places an order, a lot happens behind the scenes. For example, you need to charge their card, update inventory, create a shipping label, and send a confirmation email. You could try to write one giant program that does everything in the correct order, but that quickly becomes a tangled mess — especially if something fails halfway through (say, payment succeeds but inventory update fails).