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Every Sunday, Victor Garcia sends out FinOps Weekly, the largest newsletter in the practice, read by thousands of cloud professionals. He spends the rest of the week as a cloud engineer building products on GCP, which means the waste he writes about is also waste he has to find in his own accounts. And 2026 handed him plenty of material: Flexera's State of the Cloud measured wasted spend at 29 percent, the first increase after five years of steady decline, with AI workloads leading the drivers.

This session picks up where the newsletter leaves off: the waste that never reaches a dashboard because it sits inside the resources themselves, in old database dumps, snapshots outside any retention rule, and disks that outlived their instances, below where billing and utilization telemetry can see.

For live attendees only: bring the cloud waste you haven't been able to eliminate for Victor to break down on air: why each one is still there, what to measure first, and the first safe step to resolving it. Then he walks through how to run the same first pass on your own accounts. The recording won't include this segment.

Ask Victor and Ohad questions in the chat throughout the live session.

Join us to hear:

• How AI spend changed waste work: what FinOps Weekly readers report about what gets cleaned up now, and what gets ignored
• The waste billing data can't show: real examples found inside resources, why the bill never flagged them, and how to decide what's safe to delete
• Native tools or dedicated platforms: where Victor lands on the community's tooling argument, and what has to exist before any tool helps

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Register even if you can't make it, and the recording will be in your inbox by the next morning.

An AI agent can wipe a production database in seconds, recovery copies and all, and to every system watching, it looks like a routine API call.

This isn't a rare horror story anymore. Agents are in testing or production at 81% of teams, but only 14% had security sign-off first (Gravitee, 2026).

The part people miss: this is an IAM and blast-radius problem, not a prompt problem. Guardrails buy you time, but they don't hold, and most teams learn that in the restore, not the policy. In Eon's 2026 Cloud Data Infrastructure Report, 60% said a full restore takes six or more hours. Snapshots aren't a recovery strategy.

Join three practitioners live for a working conversation and a few live demos:

Moving fast without breaking prod

• The agent-harness controls most people don't know they have: human-in-the-loop, scoped auth, sandboxing
• Operationalizing agents beyond your laptop without widening the blast radius
• Finding the agents and shadow AI already running across your cloud, including the ones nobody deployed on purpose

What to do when something slips anyway

• Why recovery breaks during agent incidents, and what good looks like
• Restoring at the row, file, or table level instead of rehydrating everything
• Giving agents a read-only, queryable copy so they never need production access

Multi-cloud architecture promises flexibility, but data is where that promise often breaks down. Storage formats diverge, recovery paths vary, and moving data between environments becomes slow and brittle. This shows up during incidents and migrations—when recovery times stretch, costs rise, and “portable” systems become tightly coupled to a single provider.

In this session, we’ll treat data portability as an architectural design problem. We’ll explore patterns for moving and recovering data across cloud boundaries, including decoupled storage layers, snapshot replication via object storage, immutable recovery strategies, and policy-driven data placement.

We’ll also examine trade-offs—latency, consistency, and operational overhead—so you can decide when these patterns apply. You’ll leave with a practical framework for designing stateful systems that remain portable without unnecessary complexity.

Most ransomware playbooks assume the same finale: detect, contain, restore from backup.

Backups get poisoned weeks before anyone notices. Incident response teams rehydrate massive databases and accidentally restore the attacker right back into the environment. Recovery becomes the second incident.

AI is making the problem worse from two directions. Attackers who used to need nation-state resources now run automated campaigns at the same level of sophistication. And inside your own walls, hundreds of employees are using AI agents to interact with cloud infrastructure, where one bad prompt can wipe a production database. Malicious or accidental, the effect on your data is the same.

Watch to learn what clean recovery actually looks like when prevention isn't enough.

What you'll take away:

• How AI changed the threat profile. What attackers are actually doing with AI, and why the same tools your engineers use to ship faster also create new ways to lose production data overnight.
• Why the blind restore catches mature teams off guard. The operational pattern that turns a recovery into a second breach, and how to break the cycle before you trigger the runbook.
• What active backup posture looks like in practice. Anomaly detection on managed databases, mass row deletion alerts, and querying backups for clean recovery points without rehydrating petabytes.
• The questions a CISO should be asking this quarter. Concrete asks for your backup and IR teams to pressure-test recovery before you need it.

Shift left changed more than software delivery. It changed backup ownership too.

As cloud teams gave application owners more control over infrastructure, backup and recovery often moved with them. That made teams faster, but it also made it easier for retention to drift, restore ownership to get blurry, and central standards to weaken over time.

In this Cloud Cuts Lunch & Learn, AWS and Eon will unpack what happens when backup ownership gets too distributed, why that model often breaks at scale, and what a better middle ground looks like in practice.

You’ll learn:

• Where backup ownership models start to break down
• The warning signs governance is drifting
• What needs central guardrails vs. local flexibility
• How to improve control without slowing teams down

Backups are one of the most complete and historical views of the business, yet they’re rarely used beyond recovery.

In this on-demand Cloud Cuts session, Microsoft and Eon show how Microsoft Fabric changes that. You’ll see how OneLake.Table and Apache Iceberg make backup data instantly queryable in place, without copies, restores, or ETL—and how teams are using that data today for analytics, governance, and resilience.

You’ll learn how to:

• Query backup data directly in Microsoft Fabric
• Use OneLake.Table and Apache Iceberg to activate backups instantly
• Build dashboards for compliance, ransomware readiness, and cross-cloud visibility
• Turn protected backups into governed data for BI and AI use cases

Most organizations are spending far more than they realize on cloud backups. Snapshot sprawl, manual retention rules, and unclassified resources quietly drive storage and replication costs higher every month. The issue isn’t data growth—it’s not knowing what you’re backing up, why, or for how long.

In this joint session, Hypershift and Eon show how teams gain control with Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM): automatically discovering resources, enforcing the right protection policies, and eliminating over-backups across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud without agents, manual tagging, or brittle scripts.

You’ll learn how to:

• Continuously discover and classify cloud resources to prevent backup gaps and waste
• Identify where backup costs actually come from—and how to stop paying for unnecessary copies
• Enforce protection and retention policies automatically as environments change
• Reduce cross-region and snapshot storage costs without slowing down recovery
• Operationalize CBPM in real-world cloud environments with Hypershift

If your backups are growing faster than your workloads—or your storage bills keep climbing without clear answers—this session will show you how to cut costs while improving visibility, compliance, and resilience.

DynamoDB runs some of the most important, high-scale workloads in the world, and its backup model works differently from relational or VM-based systems. That makes every retention, recovery, and cost decision matter more than teams expect. And because everything fails—and deletes are permanent—you need a backup plan you trust.

As DynamoDB footprints grow, the same challenges show up again and again: rising costs as tables multiply, choosing when to use PITR vs. on-demand vs. exports, and figuring out how to make backups actually useful for audits, investigations, or fast recovery.

In this Cloud Cuts session, AWS and Eon walk through the DynamoDB backup patterns that work at scale. We’ll cover when each AWS-native feature fits, where teams extend the foundation with smarter workflows, and how to mix these tools confidently without overspending.

You’ll learn:

• How to use PITR, on-demand, and incremental exports as a clear AWS-native baseline
• How teams manage backups across thousands of tables and accounts without manual orchestration
• Where item-level restore, retention automation, and cost savings make the biggest impact
• How to make backups usable for audits, investigations, and day-to-day visibility
• Simple patterns that prevent retention sprawl and stop costs from creeping up

If you’re running DynamoDB at scale and want cleaner answers on cost, recovery, and compliance, this session gives you the playbook teams are using in the field.

Most cloud operations and infrastructure teams already back up data, but without Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM), posture breaks down:

• Coverage is unreliable (snapshots ≠ protection, tags drift).
• Compliance is painful (audits = weeks of manual checks).
• Costs keep climbing (waste from redundant backups).
• Restores can’t be trusted.
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That’s why Eon, who pioneered CBPM, is teaming up with Google Cloud for a live Cloud Cuts session. 

In just 30 minutes, you’ll get a practical playbook for how to get started with CBPM, including:

• The biggest posture gaps and why backups alone don’t solve them
• The 3 shifts leading teams are making to fix posture: automation, new recovery options, and multi-cloud control
• How Google Cloud complements CBPM to give enterprises a stronger, more cost-efficient, and future-ready backup posture
• A preview of how Eon's backups unlock new value, from AI to analytics, with Vertex AI and BigQuery
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Bonus: Everyone who attends will also receive a free cloud backup assessment—get a resilience score and tailored recommendations to improve your posture.‍

Join us for a 30-minute live demo to see how Eon is redefining cloud backup and learn why Eon is the fastest growing company in cloud infrastructure. Expensive, black boxed snapshots are a thing of the past. Integrate your backups into to a powerful data platform.  Eon makes your backup data instantly accessible, cost-efficient, and continuously valuable. Automate regulatory compliance, speed up audits, and gain holistic ransomware detection all while reducing your backup expenses!

See how Eon helps you:

• Access your backup data instantly—no restores, no waiting
• Cut storage costs automatically with intelligent optimization
• Strengthen your backup posture with ransomware resilience and immutable storage
• Unlock value from backup data for analytics, compliance, and operational insight
• Unify backups across cloud and hybrid environments with zero infrastructure overhead

See you there!

If you run DynamoDB or Keyspaces at scale, the ground just shifted under you. AI agents are changing how you build on these databases, DynamoDB just shipped Vector Search, and even how you model your data is worth a fresh look. Meanwhile the old questions haven't gone anywhere: do you actually know what's in these thousand tables, and can you get one record back without restoring the whole thing?

That's a lot to track, so we brought in the people who'd know. Alex DeBrie, author of The DynamoDB Book, is building one of the first live demos of DynamoDB vector search anywhere, live attendees only. He's joined by AWS's Vikas Panghal, who leads Keyspaces and part of DynamoDB, and Eon's Ohad Maislish.

What you'll walk away with:

• DynamoDB or Keyspaces: which one, and why the choice sticks
• Where vector search fits, and what AI agents actually make easier
• How AI is reshaping the way you model and build on these databases
• What an AI agent can surface about what's really in your tables
• How to recover a single record or table at scale, past the 35-day PITR window and across accounts and regions

Why come live? The last segment is a live-only demo you won't catch in the recording: Alex running DynamoDB vector search against real data and showing how you'd set it up yourself. The newest thing in this space, from one of the people who knows DynamoDB best.

Bring your questions! There will be live Q&A throughout the session.

Ready to turn your historic data into a 24-karat treasure? Our experts are on-site to show you how we're transforming cloud backup data from a buried cost to an AI-ready goldmine.

Join us for a demo on instant data access, seamless recovery, agentless architecture, and a whole lot more. Plus, swing by our booth to ride the Eon Cloud Express, grab coveted swag, and join our executive cocktail party at a members only club.

Most data lakes land raw and make you clean it later. Eon lands it gold.

We specialize in high-throughput, low-latency ingestion that does the work in flight - validating quality, mapping semantics, and writing pristine Iceberg tables already optimized for compute. Data doesn't arrive to be processed. It arrives queryable: clean, catalogued, and consumption-ready the moment it lands.

Open Iceberg on the surface, governed pipeline underneath, no lock-in. The lake stops being a staging ground and becomes the foundation your analytics, models, and agents read from directly.

Ready to turn your historic data into a 24-karat treasure? Our experts are on-site to show you how we're transforming cloud backup data from a buried cost to an AI-ready goldmine.

Join us for a demo on instant data access, seamless recovery, agentless architecture, and a whole lot more. Plus, swing by our booth to ride the Eon Cloud Express, grab coveted swag, and join us for rooftop drinks at the nearby Proper Hotel.

Ready to turn your historic data into a 24-karat treasure? Our experts are on-site to show you how we're transforming cloud backup data from a buried cost to an AI-ready goldmine.

Join us for a demo on instant data access, seamless recovery, agentless architecture, and a whole lot more. Plus, swing by our booth to take a high-speed journey on the Eon Cloud Express, grab coveted swag, and join our VIP Gold Rush happy hour.

​Cloud Collective will bring together senior leaders in cloud, infrastructure, and engineering for an evening of cocktails and conversation. Join us at Great Jones Distillery for an intimate panel discussion with Chick-fil-A and SoFi, moderated by one of Eon’s founders, as they share real-world perspectives on creating data resiliency at scale.

Afterwards, enjoy barrel tastings and private tours of Manhattan's first whiskey distillery since Prohibition while mingling with an impressive group of leaders.

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See your cloud backups come alive with a demo on instant data access, seamless recovery, and autonomous backup management. Our experts will be there to walk you through how Eon is changing the game in cloud backups.

Plus, swing by our booth to ride the Eon Cloud Express and grab exclusive swag, or join our VIP party as we celebrate Eon's first birthday in style at The Palazzo.

See backup in action with a live demo on instant access, seamless recovery, and autonomous backup management. Our experts will be on hand to walk you through how Eon is changing the game in cloud backups.

Plus, go time travelling in our time machine, pick up some swag, or join us at an exclusive invite-only happy hour with plenty of surprises.

Catch a live demo of how Eon turns cloud backups into a live data lake—ready for AI, analytics, and real-time recovery. Our team will walk you through how we automate and activate your largest data footprint, making backup not just protection—but a catalyst for growth.

Then cool off from the NYC heat and join us for an exclusive happy hour co-hosted with Sequoia Capital.

See backup in action with a live demo on instant access, seamless recovery, and autonomous backup management. Our experts will be on hand to walk you through how Eon is changing the game in cloud backups.

Plus, go time travelling in our time machine, pick up some swag, or step back in time to the 1920’s at an exclusive invite-only VIP event for the future of backup.