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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.

Mastering Azure Storage: Best Practices for Security, Performance, and Cost Optimization

Azure Storage is a cloud-based service that provides scalable, secure and highly available data storage solutions for applications running in the cloud. It offers different types of storage options like Blob storage, Queue storage, Table storage and File storage. Blob storage is used to store unstructured data like images, videos, audios and documents while Queue storage helps in building scalable applications with loosely coupled architecture.

The Real Benefits of Cloud Storage for Normal People

Sure techies and digital professionals use cloud storage, but what about you, the average Joe? You don’t have a ton of digital information, just pictures and the occasional Word docs or PDFs, so do you need it? Whether you believe it or not, data plays a huge, pivotal role in our personal and professional lives, and having a reliable and efficient storage solution is crucial. Losing some data, though rare, is a surefire way to make your life more difficult.

Agile Vs. DevOps: 7 Most Common Misconceptions

DevOps and Agile are some of the most prominent concepts in modern IT. Agile emerged at the turn of the century to help development teams become more efficient than with previous approaches. Several years later, around 2010, DevOps emerged as we know it today to enable development and operations teams to deliver better software products, more quickly, and together. These two approaches have a lot in common, including inflated expectations.

5 Ways To Find Immediate Cloud Cost Savings Opportunities

At CloudZero, we’re always talking about different ways you can save money and increase your cloud cost efficiency with our platform. From choosing the best provider discounts for your situation to spotting cost trends that have gone off the rails or boosting the metrics that are most important to investors, we’ve discussed numerous ways you can use CloudZero to your company’s financial advantage.
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What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and Why It Matters

In today's evolving technological landscape, enterprises are under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality software at an accelerated pace. Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) provide a centralized developer portal that empowers developers with self-service capabilities, standardized development environments, and automation tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle. In this week's blog, we're taking a closer look at internal developer platforms and how implementing IDPs is helping organizations overcome the complexity of modern software development and increase developer efficiency to accelerate the delivery of software products.

Amazon Security Lake & ChaosSearch deliver security analytics with industry-leading cost & unlimited retention

Amazon Security Lake is a new service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is designed to help organizations improve their security posture by automating the collection, normalization, and consolidation of security-related log and event data from integrated AWS services and third-party services (Source Partners). By centralizing all the security data in a single location, organizations can gain greater visibility and identify potential threats more quickly.

Platform.sh is now using annual carbon intensities from Electricity Maps

One of the value propositions of Platform.sh is to offer greener hosting. By choosing cloud hosting instead of on-premise hosting, you are selecting a greener way to host your applications and websites. In addition, when creating a project, you have the option to choose the greenest region to host it. How?