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Proactive Monitoring: How Engineers Use CloudWatch to Save Customers Money

Mar 20, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire

At MetricFire, we love talking with engineers about their tech stacks, SRE challenges, and how they approach infrastructure monitoring. Recently, we had a great chat with Yoimer Roman from a Latin American cloud consulting company, that helps clients make smarter business decisions by leveraging AWS CloudWatch monitoring. Yoimer wears many hats: mentoring his team on all things AWS, designing custom cloud environments, and bridging the gap between technical challenges and non-technical stakeholders.

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Anbox Cloud 1.25.0: new features, improvements and updates

Mar 20, 2025 By Canonical In Canonical

In this video, Anbox team covers new features and changes in Anbox Cloud 1.25.0 release: What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency. Chapters for Easy Navigation.

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2025 OneDrive Licensing Changes

Mar 20, 2025 By Mark In SmiKar Software

Microsoft recently announced significant changes to its OneDrive licensing and storage policies, affecting organizations that heavily rely on cloud storage solutions. Starting January 27, 2025, unlicensed OneDrive accounts—those without assigned user licenses—will be automatically archived after 93 days, rendering them inaccessible unless covered by retention policies or legal holds.

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Cloud migration security: Risks, strategies, and best practices

Mar 19, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex

Whether you’re migrating from on-premises to the cloud, between cloud providers, or to more advanced cloud architectures, each path shares common security challenges that must be addressed head-on. With the right approach, you can actually enhance your security posture during migration. In this article, we'll dig into practical approaches to cloud migration security, covering everything from initial planning to post-migration maintenance.

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AWS TimeStream for InfluxDB with Read Replica

Mar 19, 2025 By InfluxData In InfluxData

Overview and demo on how to use AWS TimeStream for InfluxDB 2.x with Read Replica.

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AWS Instance Pricing: How To Choose And Optimize Costs

Mar 19, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a myriad of virtual servers to cater to almost any need you can think of. And the pricing reflects these options. Let’s dive right into it.

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How to cut IT complexity, stop outages, and scale without the stress

Mar 18, 2025 By Upsun In Upsun

In today’s fast-paced digital world, IT managers face mounting challenges in keeping their teams efficient, their infrastructure scalable, and their applications running without disruption. Traditional hosting providers often exacerbate these challenges by operating as black boxes—offering little transparency and leaving IT teams scrambling when something goes wrong. At Upsun, we believe IT leaders should demand more from their infrastructure solutions.

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AWS ALB vs ELB: Which load balancer is right for you?

Mar 18, 2025 By David Girvin In Sumo Logic

Load balancers play a key role in Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems by maintaining traffic distribution, detecting server issues, and redirecting client requests to available servers without any downtime. But, choosing the right AWS load balancer can be daunting, as it’s essential for optimizing your application performance and scalability. Depending on your use case, you may find that an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) or Application Load Balancer (ALB) better suits your needs.

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AI Costs In 2025: A Guide To Pricing, Implementation, And Mistakes To Avoid

Mar 18, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero

AI costs haven’t been a major factor in cloud computing — until now. For example, AI demands massive data processing and storage, such as for training Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. Additionally, AI workloads require parallel processing, which traditional instances struggle to handle — forcing companies to invest in specialized (and expensive) GPUs to get the job done.

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What Are Cloud Development Environments?

Mar 17, 2025 By Josh Thornton In Speedscale

Especially, if you have a globally distributed team, CDEs give you a smoother developer experience just by its online nature. Instead of wrestling with conflicting dependencies, trudging with inconsistent local setups, or waiting for your code to compile, you have a powerful, instantly accessible development environment in the cloud. CDEs remove typical limitations like hardware and scalability. You can quickly get started with minimal setup and configuration, but confidently move forward due to the flexibility and customization features CDEs provide.

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