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The latest News and Information on Cloud monitoring, security and related technologies.

Cloud Key Management in a minute

Cloud Key Management allows you to create, import, and manage cryptographic keys, as well as perform cryptographic operations in a single centralized cloud service. In this episode of Cloud Bytes, we show how you can centrally manage symmetric and asymmetric encryption keys for your cloud services. Watch and learn how you can quickly set up Cloud Key Management.

Zero effort performance insights for popular serverless offerings

Inevitably, in the lifetime of a service or application, developers, DevOps, and SREs will need to investigate the cause of latency. Usually you will start by determining whether it is the application or the underlying infrastructure causing the latency. You have to look for signals that indicate the performance of those resources when the issue occured.

Cloud-Centric PCI Compliance Demands Cloud-Native Controls

Over the last 15-plus years, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard – a.k.a. PCI DSS – has endured as the bellwether of IT security standards. For today’s e-commerce vendors and cloud centric retailers, maintaining alignment with “PCI” remains as relevant as ever, especially given the continued proliferation of threats and diversity of cloud and hybrid environments.

Serverless with AWS - Image resize on-the-fly with Lambda and S3

Handling large images has always been a pain in my side since I started writing code. Lately, it has started to have a huge impact on page speed and SEO ranking. If your website has poorly optimized images it won’t score well on Google Lighthouse. If it doesn’t score well, it won’t be on the first page of Google. That sucks.

Keeping afloat during the flood of worker turnover

Almost four million U.S. workers a month are quitting their jobs. More than half of North American employees plan to look for a new position this year. And an alarming percentage of the workforce describe themselves as “burnt out.” Statistics like these are the shadow cast by the looming “talent turnover tsunami.” The pandemic has unmoored millions of people from their familiar patterns both at home and at work.

How the technology you choose influences CloudOps maturity

As the world becomes increasingly digital-first, it’s more important than ever for organizations to keep services always-on, innovate quickly, and deliver great customer experiences. Uptime is money, so it’s no surprise that many have made the shift to cloud in recent years in order to make use of its flexibility and scale—while controlling costs. And while 2020 wasn’t easy for any organization, those that are thriving have embraced the digital mindset.

Application Modernization Best Practices

As modern technologies like cloud, AI, MK, IoT, Data Analytics opens more doors to businesses of all sizes, application modernization takes centre stage. Today, organizations across sectors are driving relentless efforts in migrating to cloud platforms. But the presence of heavy, legacy enterprise systems makes the journey towards cloud extremely challenging. These complex systems are not only deprived of the security needed to operate in today’s business world, but the absence of integration capabilities also make them an extreme misfit in a cloud-friendly world.

Projects Enhancements

Back in 2019, I introduced you to Skeddly Projects . Projects is a feature in Skeddly that allows you to separate actions, credentials, managed backup plans, and managed start/stop plans. Almost like a mini Skeddly account within an account. Over the last few months, Skeddly’s Projects feature has been significantly enhanced. And I’m going to tell you all about the wonderful new features within Skeddly Projects.