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Google Cloud remains the third-largest provider, holding a 13% share in the global cloud infrastructure services market. In Q3 2024, Google reported a 30% year-over-year revenue growth reaching $12 billion in sales. However, it is a competitive market so they are working hard to accelerate this momentum and drive future growth with developments in AI innovation and infrastructure investments.

Amazon Aurora offers up to five times the throughput of standard MySQL and three times that of PostgreSQL. Its architecture combines the database engine with a cloud-native, SSD-based storage system built for high I/O operations to achieve this. That said, AWS Aurora pricing can be a real headscratcher for customers, with concerns about the cost structure, pricing components, and ways to cut expenses.

Observability in Azure isn’t just about tracking metrics—it’s about truly understanding how your cloud infrastructure, applications, and services are performing. It helps you spot issues before they become problems, optimize performance, and ensure security. In this guide, we’ll break down Azure Observability in a way that’s easy to follow, covering key concepts, best practices, and some useful tricks to give you an edge.

Keeping your organization secure is more important than ever. Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution, helps detect and respond to threats effectively. But to get the most out of it, it’s important to understand how the pricing works.

AI offers a world of promise for security teams, including potential for advanced threat detection, automated response capabilities, and enhanced data analysis for cybersecurity. But the same technology that supports cybersecurity teams can also be weaponized by threat actors — a true “Good vs. Evil", or “Jekyll and Hyde” scenario.

We’ve supported syncing your metrics from Kinesis Streams, Amazon’s streaming data platform, for several years. Kinesis Streams helps you gather and process streaming data which can then be monitored in your Hosted Graphite account. Recently, we’ve added support for Firehose, a fully managed and scalable service that allows users to stream data to destinations like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES).

The kosli attest generic CLI command can attest anything, but unlike a “typed” attestation (such as kosli attest snyk), it does not calculate a true/false compliance value for you. Customers have reported that while a generic “escape hatch” is useful, it nevertheless has some drawbacks: Based on this feedback we’ve implemented a new attest command called kosli attest custom.

If your organization uses Skype for Business for collaboration, it’s time to start thinking about your next communication platform. On Oct. 15, 2025, Microsoft will stop supporting Skype for Business. As a result, the platform’s performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and other bugs will no longer be fixed. There’s still time to move to a new platform before Skype for Business is no longer supported.

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