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New AWS Policy Update: No Resale of Discounted Reserved Instances Starting January 15, 2024

Upcoming specific new AWS regulations will significantly impact how businesses handle their AWS operations. Starting from January 15, 2024, AWS will no longer permit the resale of discounted Reserved Instances (RIs) bought from the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace. This update aligns with AWS’s service terms, particularly Section 5.5, which explicitly prohibits the resale of discounted RIs.

Landing safely with Azure Integration Services - Dan Toomey

In this session titled "Landing safely with Azure Integration Services", Dan Toomey dives deep into optimizing cloud architecture frameworks, emphasizing the role of Azure Landing Zones. With the advent of the Azure Integration Services landing zone, he illuminates six vital design areas and their best practices. From robust identity and access management to efficient platform automation and DevOps strategies, Dan guides through the labyrinth of Azure's integration capabilities.

15 Crucial Azure Tools You Need To Know Now

What Does Microsoft Azure Do? Azure Development Tools Azure Cost And Resource Management Tools Azure Security Tools Azure Monitoring And Reporting Tools How To Choose The Best Azure Tools For Your Business View The People, Products, And Processes That Drive Your Cloud Spend With CloudZero Modern cloud environments can be challenging to manage. It doesn’t have to be that way if you use the right tools.

Engineering-Led Optimization: How To Proactively Manage Cloud Costs Without Slowing Down Innovation

How Engineering-Led Optimization Works Achieve Cloud Efficiency Without Slowing Down Innovation Historically, cloud cost optimization has been the responsibility of finance teams. Engineers have bought what they claim to need to build top-notch software; finance teams have gotten (and paid) the bill; neither has had an in-depth understanding of what the other is doing.

Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances-part 2

You probably know that it is important to apply security updates. You may not be as clear on the details of how to do that. We are going to explain best practices for applying Ubuntu updates to single instances and what the built-in unattended-upgrades tool does and does not do.

Cloud backup: improve your disaster recovery plans

Today the lowest cost media per terabyte for backups is still tape, even after factoring in the handling costs of manually loading and unloading tape libraries, and logistics surrounding off-site storage. However, while inexpensive, tapes are inflexible. And when used as an offline solution it can take many hours to retrieve them from offsite storage – not to mention the additional time required to load them into a tape library before a recovery can even start.

GraphQL at scale with Azure API Management - Toon Vanhoutte

On Day 3 of INTEGRATE2023, Toon Vanhoutte dives into the transformative capabilities of GraphQL in scale with Azure API Management. Highlighting GraphQL's efficiency over REST and its widespread adoption by tech giants, Toon also sheds light on its challenges, from design to security. The takeaway? While REST dominates, GraphQL is making significant strides. Discover the nuances of modern API management in this engaging session.

How to effectively monitor PowerShell Jobs running on VM or Azure?

Do you need help with the task of overseeing PowerShell jobs on your Azure or VM? In this video, Mike Stephenson discusses the problems IT operators face when dealing with complex PowerShell jobs on Azure, like run failures in PowerShell scripts. This video provides a solution that shifts support away from PowerShell experts, empowering support and business users to gain visibility over your PowerShell jobs on Azure or VM. This can help them easily handle low-value support tasks by shifting their reliance on PowerShell experts.

IAG Relies on PagerDuty Operations Cloud for Sustainable Growth

Part of the International Airlines Group (IAG), IAG Loyalty operates the loyalty programs for IAG’s airlines—British Airways, Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus—and 125+ global brand partners in travel, retail, and financial services. With the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, IAG Loyalty has built a framework that allows engineers to build products and services in a fast and safe way. This has laid the foundation for sustainable growth as a company. Hear more in this video from Colin Lewis, Head of Core Engineering at IAG Loyalty and James Headon, Cloud Operations Manager at IAG Loyalty.