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Applications Manager now supports Azure security services, container services, integration services, storage sync services, app service plans, and more.

Widespread adoption of containerized infrastructure has been closely followed by an explosion of container-native tools for each layer of the stack, including new solutions for managing CI/CD pipelines in container-based environments, such as the Argo suite, FluxCD, and Tekton. This is because these lightweight solutions make it easier to automate builds, testing, deployments, and more on Kubernetes, as well as other platforms that manage containerized workloads and services.

Most organizations migrate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud from on-premises data centers. However, others have switched from another Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform to AWS. The most common reason we hear for choosing AWS is cost savings. As the largest public cloud provider, AWS leverages economies of scale, making its cloud services more affordable than those a company would have to build itself. Yet, not every organization can claim that AWS has saved it money.

Arguably the most important part of an on-call product is knowing that you will be notified when things break, wherever you are. When it comes to SMS and phone call notifications, we have to leave the familiar realm of the internet and JSON responses, and deal with systems that provide limited observability and insight into what’s gone wrong.

When working with ML models, it’s fair to say that a model is only as good as the data it was trained on. Training and testing models on quality datasets of an appropriate size is essential for model performance. Because of the intricate link between a model and the data it was trained on, it’s also important to be able to store datasets and versioned models together.

There’s no shortage of new developer tools promising to reduce toil and improve productivity. But investing in the latest technology can require a leap of faith organizations can no longer afford to make. Leaders need assurance that the investment they’re making will pay off, quickly.

Cloud storage solutions can provide public sector organisations with a high degree of flexibility when it comes to their storage needs, either public cloud based, or in their own private clouds. In our previous blog post we looked at the economic differences between these two approaches. In this blog we will explore some of the security best practices when using cloud storage, so that you can ensure that sensitive data remains securely stored and compliance objectives are met.