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Christmas Newsletter 2021

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and you are the most wonderful part of the Cloud 66 family! Thank you for being our customer - we are grateful. We wish you a holly, jolly holiday season full of magic, happiness, and laughter. Have a prosperous 2022 filled with clean code, smooth pipelines, effortless deployments, and spectacular success! Festive Greetings from the Cloud 66 Crew!

Tutorial: Getting Started with AWS Lambda and Node.js

AWS Lambda is an incredible tool that works well with an abundance of other services on AWS. In this hands-on walkthrough, we’ll show you how to get started and create your first Node.js AWS Lambda function. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a word caught my ear. Lambda. That struck a chord, remembering the good old days of playing Half-Life as a kid. Little did I know what AWS Lambda was and how incredibly awesome it is. If you’re intrigued, stick around.

A first look at Amazon CloudWatch Real User Monitoring

Real User Monitoring (RUM) has been providing valuable insights into real user experiences for many years. It’s not every day that we see a new player enter the market, but last week we did, and a very powerful player at that – Amazon. Real User Monitoring for Amazon CloudWatch was announced at AWS re:Invent 2021, adding to their existing suite of over 200 products and services. As you can imagine, our ears perked up at this announcement and we’re eager to take a look.

Identify operational issues quickly by using Grafana and Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights

Amazon CloudWatch has recently launched Metrics Insights (Preview) — a fast, flexible, SQL-based query engine that enables you to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real-time. With Metrics Insights, you can easily query and analyze your metrics to gain better visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure and large scale applications.

Is Arm the future of cloud computing?

The Arm architecture dates back to Acorn Computers’ BBC Micro in 1981. The BBC Micro was a conventional machine, yet it ran nearly twice as fast as its contemporaries, such as the Apple II. About the same time, research on a microprocessor design based on the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) demonstrated that simple chip designs could easily outperform the current high-end 32-bit offerings.

How to find cloud logs and manage logging costs

We covered best practices for ingesting, centralizing, and managing cloud logs in our previous episode. But how can you quickly find the logs you're looking for when troubleshooting? And how can you manage and optimize your logging costs? In this episode, we'll show you how to use advanced log queries to find the exact logs you're looking for and how to manage logging costs.

Incident Review: Another Week, Another AWS Outage

The following is an analysis of the Amazon Web Services incident on 12/15/2021. It may be the holiday season for most of us, but for AWS it appears to be Groundhog Day, Bill Murray style. For the second week in a row, the company reported an outage, this time affecting its US-West-2 region in Oregon and US-West-1 in Northern California.

AWS Machine Learning Tools (2022 edition)

When you want to stay ahead and on top of things in a fast-moving industry, machine learning (ML) is surely one of the trending solutions. Today, innovative companies already have leading Machine Learning tools well-integrated into their processes. In comparison, your start could seem dreadfully slow. Or maybe you just don’t have the time or resources to invest in running your own Machine Learning training infrastructure.