Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Welcome to the final installment of our Complete AWS Lambda Handbook series! Given Lambda is often the central point for many serverless applications, we wanted to make sure we didn’t skip or breeze past any part. In this episode, we’re looking at some limitations and difficulties using AWS Lambda and how to overcome them, and the importance of monitoring for performance and failure remediation.

Amazon EKS is the most popular managed Kubernetes solution. DevOps teams can quickly spin up clusters in the cloud and get started with Kubernetes in a few clicks. As organizations embrace Kubernetes in the cloud, the challenge becomes managing clusters across multiple regions or accounts. At that point, organizations struggle to visualize all of their clusters.

AWS Elasticsearch is a common provider of managed ELK clusters., but does the AWS Elasticsearch pricing really scale? It offers a halfway solution for building it yourself and SaaS. For this, you would expect to see lower costs than a full-blown SaaS solution, however, the story is more complex than that.

Google Operations suite, formerly Stackdriver, is a central repository that receives logs, metrics, and application traces from Google Cloud resources. These resources can include compute engine, app engine, dataflow, dataproc, as well as their SaaS offerings, such as BigQuery. By shipping this data to Elastic, you’ll get a unified view of the performance of resources across your entire infrastructure from cloud to on-prem.

"A long time ago in a data centre far, far away.... Our first episode takes us back to the early days of launching Civo, where we had a fledgling Ceph cluster with a bunch of SSDs in each. Those were darker times, in the early days of OpenStack. As time went by the cluster grew, new bigger nodes were added along with bigger disks.

In collaboration with the AWS team, we have just launched another AWS integration, the X-ray data source. Combined with the CloudWatch and Timestream integrations, the AWS X-Ray data source simplifies monitoring and triaging with one Grafana console. The addition of the AWS X-ray data source reflects Grafana’s commitment to becoming a full observability platform that supports distributed tracing as well as metrics and logs.

This latest release of SquaredUp for SCOM and SquaredUp for Azure is focused on addressing the most popular enhancements that our customers have requested.

The move to a multi-cloud environment brings with it many new considerations for an enterprises. Among those is a new approaching to networking. In our recent webinar, Jay Turner, Vice President of Development and Operations, and Neil Templeton VP, Marketing at PCCW Global, looked at some of the common challenges facing enterprises as they connect to more clouds, and identified some new ways to manage these connections more effectively. Here’s some of the tips you might have missed…

If you are looking to account for your container costs and understand how your AWS Kubernetes or EKS cluster spend maps onto your workloads, this guide was made for you! In this post we will walk through the steps to get up and running with CloudZero and Amazon Container Insights fast. CloudZero has integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for its strength as a secure and automated solution for sharing container metrics within AWS.

With the pandemic forcing businesses worldwide to reboot, many have no choice but to exact drastic cost-cutting measures to keep the lights on. Cloud computing is an expense incurred by every digital business that, unlike many other operating costs, is largely variable.