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Monitoring AWS End User Computing (EUC) Technologies with eG Enterprise

We are delighted to share that eG Innovations has become one of a very small number of partners to have achieved AWS’s “Digital Workplace Competency” award following a lengthy and rigorous technical audit process. This designation differentiates eG Innovations from other AWS EUC monitoring vendors as having a solution that meets AWS’s own standards for enterprise software.

Introducing platformEDGE - One platform, bringing the edge closer to you.

PlatformEDGE combines regional data centres, distrubuted compute and low latency connectivity to deliver improved performance, growth at scale and transformation for regional businesses across the UK. Our integrated platform reaches 95% of UK businesses through our strategically located data centres on the edge network of all major UK cities. Get secure, fast, and controlled access to data, where and when you need it.

Step Functions in the Real World

AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui and Sandeep Kumar, Principal Solutions Architect at Antstack explore AWS Step Functions and how you can solve complex business problems with them. During the webinar, they discuss the different use cases for Step Functions and how to use them effectively. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any new livestreams and observability content! With one-click distributed tracing, Lumigo lets developers effortlessly find and fix issues in serverless and containerized environments.

Cloud Provider Uptime Monitoring: May 2023 Insights

Explore our insightful May 2023 report on the uptime of top cloud providers. We've carefully assessed the health of these leading services by monitoring outages and issues throughout the month. Using data from their official status pages, we've normalized the information to create a clear and concise overview of their reliability. Find out how your favorite cloud provider stacks up in this essential report.

What is ESXi?

ESXi, short for Elastic Sky X Integrated, is a groundbreaking virtualization solution engineered by the tech giant VMware. Functioning as a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi stands out from other solutions due to its ability to run directly on the system hardware without the need for an underlying operating system. By providing a platform where virtual machines can efficiently function and interact, ESXi has emerged as an indispensable component in today’s technology-driven business ecosystem.

Choosing the Best Options to Run Kubernetes on AWS

Kubernetes is the most widely used container orchestration platform, and you will see many tech giants using Kubernetes in their solutions. Its built-in scalability, flexibility, and container orchestration capabilities make it an ideal choice for enterprise applications requiring high availability and robustness. When deciding which Kubernetes solution to select, we come across many options, including Rancher, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), self-hosted Kubernetes, Kops, Kubeadm, and Qovery.

Head in the Clouds (ft. Jo Peterson): Experts Dish on Cloud Strategy

Cloud is still a buzzword - but is it getting the attention you want it to get? Yeah, we thought so. The secret is layering in revenue-generating words around cloud to grab the attention it so rightfully deserves. Hear more from Splunker Tom Stoner and Clarify360's Jo Peterson.

10 AWS Data Lake Best Practices

A data lake is the perfect solution for storing and accessing your data, and enabling data analytics at scale - but do you know how to make the most of your AWS data lake? In this week’s blog post, we’re offering 10 data lake best practices that can help you optimize your AWS S3 data lake set-up and data management workflows, decrease time-to-insights, reduce costs, and get the most value from your AWS data lake deployment.

Mastering AWS Fargate pricing and optimization with CloudSpend: A comprehensive guide

AWS Fargate is a powerful tool for running containerized workloads on AWS. It’s a serverless compute engine that allows you to run containers and focus on developing and deploying your applications while AWS controls the cloud infrastructure. This can make a real difference for an organization, saving both time and resources that would otherwise go towards managing servers. This guide will discuss AWS Fargate pricing and provide tips for cost optimization.

Cool Things You Can Do with Metrics on AWS

Public cloud environments are heavily instrumented and can give you metrics on practically any level of the infrastructure. AWS is no exception. Metrics are not only useful for monitoring and troubleshooting issues in a cloud environment - they can also be tied directly to automated actions. So you can leverage them to remediate issues instantly, as they happen.