Top Cloud Cost News From July 2025
July brought good news, if you’re in the mood for some fresh new opportunities to learn about cost optimization and streamline your FinOps strategy. Check out these updates, hot off the press: Enjoy!
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High Score: Megaport Hits 1,000 Locations
To celebrate one of our biggest milestones so far, we reflect on the journey we've taken to get here alongside our incredible partners and customers. Megaport has just hit a milestone that has been over a decade in the making: 1,000 Megaport-enabled locations worldwide. This achievement is more than just a nice, round number – it means Megaport is now available in 10% of all data centers globally. In this industry, that’s a massive deal.
Inside OPEA: Microservices & RAG for Enterprise #AI #opensource #rancherlive
Learn more about the core components of the OPEA project under @LinuxfoundationOrg with Katherine Druckman.
Edit API Mocks FAST with Proxymock! #api #proxymock #speedscale #apitesting
Need to tweak an API response for testing? See how easy it is to modify existing Proxymock API recordings directly in your editor.
Give Your AI a Sandbox Proxymock for Smarter Code! #speedscale #proxymock #ai
Battling soaring AI coding tool bills? Proxymock offers an AI sandbox with real production data. Build, test, & iterate without the risk (or cost!).
How to Perform Better Tests in CI Pipeline
Don't let AI mistakes slip through! Proxymock records real production traffic, turning it into powerful mocks for automated integration and load tests. Ensure code quality and performance before deployment.
Getting closer to space with Canonical #ubuntu #space #shorts
@EuropeanSpaceAgency is scaling to support more missions than ever. Canonical makes it possible with open source infrastructure built for space. Watch the full video to see how we're helping ESA automate, scale, and future-proof its operations. Subscribe for more tech stories from space.
A local fix just spreads the problem
“You fixed a bug in QA — great! But did that fix go into version control and get tested and deployed everywhere? If not, you just created drift, and more problems down the line.” Peter Kruis, Microsoft SQL Engineer at Monin Fixing a bug in the environment where it appears feels like progress, but without a proper process, it creates fragility everywhere else.
Break it early to ship it safely
“We want developers to break things – just not for the customers. If all our tests are green, I get nervous that we’re not testing deep enough.” Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, Principal Software Eng. Manager, Microsoft Azure SQL Naga Santhosh, Sunny to most, leads a team that ships changes to Azure SQL databases worldwide. Those deployments must be fast, frequent, and invisible to customers. That kind of reliability doesn’t come from playing it safe during development.
Navigating the Growth of Digital Infrastructure in Brazil with Carlos Eduardo Sedeh
What does it take to build a telecom network that actually listens? In this episode of Uplink, Carlos Eduardo Sedeh, CEO of SAMM (formerly Megatelecom), joins host Michael Reid to explore how a flat-fee dial-up service launched in 1999 laid the groundwork for a customer-first telecom strategy that continues to reshape Brazil’s enterprise connectivity landscape.