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On July 1, 2026 Azure ended Reserved VM Instance purchases and renewals for 18 legacy VM series. Existing reservations run to term, then revert to pay-as-you-go, erasing up to 72% savings. Your options: savings plan
October 13, 2026 is the final cutoff for Windows Server 2012 R2 Extended Security Updates. SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 already lost support on July 14, with no ESU. Compare migrate, ESU, and modernize with real
Microsoft put Mistral's open-weight Medium 3.5 into Foundry and Azure Local on July 21, 2026, from cloud to fully disconnected. How regulated enterprises should choose a deployment mode, and what control really buys.
On July 14, 2026 AWS made Security Hub scan Microsoft Azure resources next to AWS, at the same per-resource price. Here is what it covers, what it costs, how it compares to Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Wiz, and when
On July 14, 2026 AWS Security Hub started scanning Microsoft Azure next to AWS at the same per-resource price. The tool is cheap; acting on the findings is the hard part. eCorpIT runs multicloud posture management
India's public cloud spending is forecast to grow 28.1% to $17.5 billion in 2026, and Flexera says wasted spend rose to 29% for the first time in five years. This is a refreshed, senior-engineer FinOps playbook: nine
Alibaba Cloud unveiled Agent Native Cloud at WAIC on 18 July 2026, adding AgentLoop and AgentTeams to AgentRun. Here is how the three big agent runtimes compare on billing, isolation, observability and lock-in.
Microsoft, AWS and Google all publish Arm performance gains, and all three use a different baseline. Cobalt 200 is measured against Cobalt 100, Graviton4 against Graviton3, and Axion N4A against x86. Here is how to read
Microsoft now runs two managed Postgres services on Azure. HorizonDB's preview limitations list decides most of these choices before any benchmark does, and one of those limits rules it out for Indian workloads entirely.
Microsoft shipped AKS on bare metal to public preview on 2 June 2026. The validated hardware list runs from a $2,762 rugged mini PC to an ASUS NUC, and nothing on it trains a model. Here is what the feature actually
Azure Update 559756 paused the 128 KiB minimum billable object size for cool, cold and archive tiers. Billing did not change on 1 July 2026 for new or existing accounts. AWS still bills a 128 KB floor; Google does not.
Four vendors rebuilt their agent runtimes around the session in 2026, and they agree on routing but disagree on the compute primitive underneath. A comparison of AWS AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, Google Agent Engine
On July 1, 2026 Azure stopped new purchases and renewals of Reserved VM Instances for 18 VM series, including Dv3, Ev3, Av2 and Fsv2. Existing RIs still run to term. Two options remain, the renewal escape hatch is gone
Egress is the cloud line item nobody quotes in the sales deck. Here is what four providers charge per GB as of June 2026, the hidden charges that dwarf the headline rate, and what the EU Data Act actually abolishes
Microsoft expanded its AWS-to-Azure migration tooling in 2026. But migration has hidden costs: moving 50 TB can cost $3,500 to $7,000 in egress alone. How to evaluate a switch on total cost, not vendor marketing.
AWS removed its advanced-instances tier on June 30, 2026, so you can manage Azure VMs from AWS Systems Manager at no per-node charge. A setup walkthrough, an honest SSM versus Azure Arc comparison, and the App Manager
Cloud waste hit a five-year high of 29% in 2026 as AI workloads made spend unpredictable. eCorpIT's cloud FinOps managed service brings visibility, rightsizing, and anomaly detection to AWS, Azure, and GCP so teams cut
Claude reached general availability in Microsoft Foundry in late June 2026, billed in Claude Consumption Units where 100 CCU equals $1. How CCU conversion works and what it changes for your Azure bill.
Companies waste about 27% of cloud spend, and AI is now the fastest-growing line. Six FinOps ways Indian teams cut AWS, Azure and GCP bills in 2026, from commitment discounts to cutting the GPU and token bill.
