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Read about CloudBolt’s take on removing ‘report factory’ in FinOps using an orchestration-first approach.

CloudQuery announces its new AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) integration—empowering engineering teams to analyze and optimize cloud spend directly from infrastructure data. Learn how to gain cost visibility, allocate budgets by tags or teams, and uncover hidden cloud expenses with powerful queries and dashboards.

CloudQuery Reports delivers powerful, pre-built dashboards for security, compliance, operations, and cost across your multi-cloud stack—no deep cloud or SQL expertise needed. Get full visibility and control over your infrastructure in one place.

Is your Internal Developer Portal (IDP) a "documentation graveyard"? Discover how fresh, accurate asset inventory transforms IDPs into dynamic platforms, boosting developer productivity by 55%, slashing onboarding time by 67%, and delivering over 224% ROI by accelerating development and ensuring governance.

Unlock your cloud asset inventory with AI! Discover CloudQuery's new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling any AI agent to directly query your infrastructure data using natural language. Learn how to empower security, FinOps, and infrastructure teams with real-time dashboards, tables, and reports, eliminating manual exports and boosting autonomous decision-making.

Drowning in multi-cloud complexity? Discover how CloudQuery leads the SQL-based asset inventory space, offering enterprise scalability and persistent storage. Compare it with Steampipe for real-time insights and native cloud tools for single-cloud simplicity, helping platform teams choose the right solution for comprehensive cloud visibility and compliance.

Ridgeline, a cloud-native investment management platform, improved infrastructure visibility, automated compliance, and cut cloud costs by over 30% using CloudQuery. By integrating it into their CI/CD pipeline, they scaled to 300+ AWS accounts, expanded resource coverage, and reduced manual overhead—ensuring secure, efficient, and compliant cloud operations.

Explore three ways to buy Kafka in the cloud—Multi-Tenant SaaS, Single-Tenant SaaS, and Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)—and discover why Diskless BYOC offers significant economic, enforcement, and enterprise discount advantages for organizations operating Kafka at scale, challenging traditional fully-managed solutions.

Discover KIP-1150 Diskless Topics now live in Aiven Kafka BYOC, enabling Apache Kafka on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure to write directly to object storage. Learn how this innovation slashes costs by up to 80%, eliminates operational toil, and maintains 100% Apache Kafka compatibility, ensuring zero vendor lock-in and a single logical cluster for all streaming workloads.

Is workflow chaos secretly costing your dev team 20+ hours a month? Discover how inconsistent PRs, endless merge conflicts, and slow onboarding silently kill velocity, and learn practical fixes to standardize your workflows for peak productivity and happier developers.

Still battling Kubernetes Ingress complexities? Discover why it's time to migrate! This guide unpacks the limitations of traditional Ingress and reveals how the Kubernetes Gateway API, implemented by Calico Ingress Gateway with Envoy proxy, offers a standardized, role-aware, and feature-rich solution for secure, streamlined traffic management.

Dive into Grafana Labs' third annual Observability Survey for 2025! Uncover how observability practices are maturing, why traces are gaining traction, the enduring power of open source, the emerging role of AI, and how cost continues to drive tool selection across organizations of all sizes.