SUMMARY: Many organizations struggle with budget overruns due to poor cloud cost visibility. Still, they can stop this financial leak and maximize ROI by leveraging the native cost management and monitoring tools provided by AWS, Azure, and OCI, along with expert...
SUMMARY: This guide explains how businesses can leverage commitment-based discount programs like Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans to significantly reduce cloud costs on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with expert guidance from XTIVIA to maximize savings....
SUMMARY: Cloud database over-provisioning—the allocation of more resources to a database instance than it actually needs—drives excessive cloud bills by masking underlying performance issues. This necessitates strategic resource right-sizing and query optimization...
SUMMARY: To achieve significant cost savings in Azure SQL, database administrators can optimize large-scale data deletion tasks by disabling nonclustered indexes before the operation and rebuilding them afterward. This "disable and rebuild" strategy can perform large...
SUMMARY: XTIVIA's expert DBA team tackles the high cost of over-provisioning in Azure managed database services, like Azure SQL Database and Cosmos DB, by focusing on comprehensive diagnostics and configuration tuning to resolve root performance issues, delivering...
When Azure SQL’s Automatic Tuning feature creates and then immediately reverts an index, it’s a sign that something is wrong. But what happens when the performance regression is a staggering 108%? We dive deep into a real-world troubleshooting scenario to uncover a surprising culprit and a critical database tuning lesson.
SUMMARY: Terraform, an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool from HashiCorp, empowers businesses to automate, provision, and manage consistent multi-cloud environments across platforms like Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, effectively eliminating reliance on...
SUMMARY: Microsoft is permanently retiring the Azure Database for MariaDB service on September 19, 2025, requiring all current users to migrate their database instances immediately to prevent permanent deletion and loss of all data, primarily by...
SUMMARY: Microsoft is replacing the Azure Virtual Desktop Preview with the unified Windows App to ensure uninterrupted service by centralizing access to cloud PCs, virtual desktops, and local resources through a single, cross-platform gateway. The Windows App provides...
SUMMARY: Microsoft is retiring default outbound internet access for new Azure Virtual Machines on September 30, 2025, to enhance cloud security by requiring administrators to replace unmanaged, ephemeral IP addresses with explicit routing solutions like NAT Gateways...