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How to monitor Amazon Aurora RDS logs and metrics

Aurora, a hosted relational database service available on the Amazon cloud, is a popular solution for teams that want to be able to work with tooling that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL without running an actual MySQL or PostgreSQL database. In order to leverage Aurora’s benefits fully, it’s critical to log and analyze the various types of monitoring data that are available from an Aurora environment.

AWS Well-Architected Workload Recommendations in Splunk

The Well-Architected Tool is a new AWS service that compares the state of your workloads with AWS architectural best practices. Splunking your workload state and improvement recommendations will give you better insights into your applications as well as best practices to follow along your cloud journey. The Well-Architected integration in Grand Central will give you workload insights broken down by the following 5 pillars.

With the new AWS IoT SiteWise plugin, you can visualize and monitor your equipment data in Grafana dashboards

In collaboration with the AWS team, we have just launched another AWS integration, the AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana. AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that helps users collect, store, organize, and monitor data from industrial equipment, across facilities, at scale.

Webinar: Building Serverless Flows with AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions are an emerging solution in the field of serverless architectures, as they provide capabilities to coordinate between many services. This webinar takes the "Right to be forgotten" (GDPR) workflow as an example of a hands-on AWS Step Functions tutorial: use-cases, difficulties, and solutions. Combining Cloudway's experience with Lumigo's monitoring and debugging solution, we provide a full framework to manage multiple subsystems into a single serverless flow and get the work done.

Webinar: How to Monitor Serverless Applications

The software we write does not always work as smoothly as we'd like. To know if something went wrong, find the root cause, and fix the problem, we need to monitor our system and get alerts whenever issues pop up. There are many useful tools and practices for non-serverless applications. As we adopt serverless architecture can we continue to use the same approach? Unfortunately, the answer is no.

Cloud Cost Optimization & DevOps

See how leading enterprises are achieving continuous, DevOps-driven cloud and container cost. Our DevOps experts detail methods for embedding cloud cost optimization into DevOps pipelines, demo an extensible, best practice DevOps pipeline supporting continuous cloud FinOps, and showcase case studies of advanced enterprises successfully augmenting their DevOps to embrace systemic optimization.

Cost per Tenant: A Key Part of the AWS Well-Architected Strategy SaaS Lens

Multi-tenancy is one of the key properties of any effective SaaS solution. It gives companies the economies of scale, elasticity, and operational efficiency to offer competitive products with strong margins. However, multi-tenancy has a tradeoff: cost visibility. Because customers share AWS resources in multi-tenant architecture, the billing data shows the resources you’ve utilized, but not by who or to do what. It’s possible to build this kind of visibility in.

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes is now a Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operator

We are delighted to announce that Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK), the official Elastic Operator, is now a Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operator. The operator helps make it easier to deploy and automate Elasticsearch, Kibana, APM Server, Beats, and Enterprise Search in your OpenShift environment.

Mike Rahmati: My Serverless journey with Cloud Conformity

Mike Rahmati is the Head of the Advisory Board at Dashbird. He is the Co-Founder and CTO of Cloud Conformity (acquired by Trend Micro) – a Cloud Security Posture Management Solution – one of the largest and earliest adopters of serverless. Mike is also an active AWS Community Hero. In this article, he shares his journey and experience with serverless. Cloud Conformity was founded in 2014 as a result of our own experience of issues migrating to the cloud.