Across more than 23,000 production Kubernetes clusters running AI workloads on AWS, Azure and GCP, average measured GPU utilisation was just 5 percent. On AKS specifically, it averaged just 2 percent. That figure comes from Cast AI’s 2026 State of…
The FinOps Foundation’s State of FinOps 2025 report, drawn from organisations responsible for over $69 billion of cloud spend, found that only a small minority of organisations have reached “Run” maturity, with the majority still at “Walk” or “Crawl” stage.…
Cloud egress costs arrive as a billing surprise. They appear across dozens of line items that nobody owns, growing steadily month over month in a way that makes attribution difficult and root cause harder to establish. The standard response is…
The infrastructure for AI agents is hardening fast, and this week the announcements to prove it came from every direction. AWS shipped a fundamentally new compute primitive aimed squarely at the untrusted-code problem, Azure moved its observability agent to general…
Most AWS Auto Scaling configurations are set up once, inherited by the next team, and trusted indefinitely. The failure mode is never dramatic. It is the group that thrashes every three minutes and appears to self-correct. It is the Monday…
Microsoft Build consumed most of this week’s cloud news with a coherent agentic push. Two AWS items cut through independently: a redesigned Bedrock console and a Cognito feature that removes a long-standing single-region constraint. Cobalt 200 Brings Custom Arm Silicon…
A busy week across the major providers, with AWS delivering a cluster of meaningful updates and Google quietly improving one of its most important HA features. The thread running through much of it: cloud platforms are being reshaped around AI…
Cloud-mature organisations learn this slowly. The IaC pipeline runs cleanly, the resource exists, the deployment succeeds, and everyone moves on to the next sprint. What does not move with them is the operational context: who knows how this service behaves…
S3 Intelligent-Tiering has acquired a reputation as a safe default: enable it across your buckets, pay a small per-object monitoring charge, and let AWS automatically move cold data to cheaper storage tiers. The pitch is appealing, especially at scale, when…
Cloud providers are offering up to 91% off on-demand compute prices, and most engineering teams are leaving that money on the table. Not because they lack awareness (Spot Instances, Azure Spot VMs, and GCP Spot VMs are well-publicised), but because…
