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Mitigating Cloud Environmental Impact with Kepler, Kube Green, and Beyond - Navigate Europe 23

Dive into the world of sustainable cloud computing with Saloni Narang at Navigate Europe 23. Discover how tools like Kepler and Kube Green can help mitigate the environmental impact of cloud technologies. Learn about the role of CNCF's Technical Advisory Group in promoting sustainability and find out how to measure and reduce CO2 emissions and energy usage in your cloud infrastructure. A must-watch for anyone interested in green cloud computing!

Azure Key Vault Certificate Expiration Monitoring

Azure Key Vault is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft Azure for managing and safeguarding cryptographic keys, secrets, and digital certificates used by cloud applications and services. It offers a secure and compliant way to store, manage, and control access to these sensitive pieces of information. Key Vault is designed to help protect the confidentiality and integrity of data, enhance the security of applications, and simplify key management tasks.

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.

Streamlined Subnet Imports and Collaborative Support Teams

Discover LightMesh’s latest IP address management upgrades, featuring streamlined subnet imports and collaborative Support Teams, transforming network efficiency. Exciting news from LightMesh! We’ve enhanced our IP address management (IPAM) solution, offering powerful upgrades for efficient network management.

Visualize AWS Step Functions with the State Machine Map

AWS Step Functions allows you to coordinate activity from hundreds of services—including AWS Lambda, Amazon EKS, and Amazon API Gateway—to build and orchestrate serverless workflows. With Step Functions, you organize work into workflows known as state machines, in which each state defines a task or decision and specifies the next state in the workflow.

Monitor Amazon Bedrock with Datadog

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers foundation models (FMs) built by leading AI companies, such as AI21 labs, Meta, and Amazon along with other tools for building generative AI applications. After enabling access to validation and training data stored in Amazon S3, customers can fine-tune their FMs to invoke tasks such as text generation, content creation, and chatbot Q&A—without provisioning or managing any infrastructure.

Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Google Cloud in just minutes

Developers and SREs choose to host their applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for its reliability, speed, and ease of use. On Google Cloud, development teams are finding additional value in migrating to Kubernetes on GKE, leveraging the latest serverless options like Cloud Run, and improving traditional, tiered applications with managed services. Elastic Observability offers 16 out-of-the-box integrations for Google Cloud services with more on the way.