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This year’s KubeCon underscored a real shift: AI SRE has gone mainstream. Of course, it’s not a surprise. Teams from high-growth startups to Fortune 500s are running more complex, cloud-native systems, shipping more AI-generated code, and facing rising expectations. Downtime is absolutely not an option and the work for on-call SREs has become unsustainable. The question isn’t whether AI SRE helps. It’s which one you can trust in production.

The Ingress NGINX Controller is approaching retirement, which has pushed many teams to evaluate their long-term ingress strategy. The familiar Ingress resource has served well, but it comes with clear limits: annotations that differ by vendor, limited extensibility, and few options for separating operator and developer responsibilities. The Gateway API addresses these challenges with a more expressive, standardized, and portable model for service networking.

Starting today, get full visibility on your RDS databases directly inside Qovery. Troubleshoot app and database issues from one place without jumping into the AWS console.

As cloud applications moved from VMs to containers and then to microservices, the amount of background work needed to keep everything running grew just as quickly. You gain speed and flexibility, but you also end up managing clusters, scaling rules, and capacity choices that don’t really add to the product you’re building. AWS Fargate steps in right there. It lets you run your ECS tasks without looking after any servers at all.

For platform engineers managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, maintaining policy consistency is a constant struggle. Manually applying security rules across a growing fleet of clusters is inefficient and error-prone. This approach creates significant risks: As your environment scales, this operational burden becomes unsustainable. Each out-of-sync policy represents a potential security gap, increasing the cluster’s attack surface.

Master HIPAA compliance on Azure. Understand the Shared Responsibility Model, the critical role of the BAA, and how to configure Access Control, Encryption, and Networking. See how Qovery automates security controls for continuous compliance.

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.