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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) now offers a high-performance storage class, S3 Express One Zone, that delivers consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most latency-sensitive applications. Designed for your most frequently accessed datasets, S3 Express One Zone replicates and stores your data within a single AWS Availability Zone, scales to process millions of requests per minute, and uses hardware and software optimized for low latency.

VMware’s CloudHealth and Flexera market themselves as two of the best cloud management platforms today. For organizations with on-premises, cloud, and SaaS operations, both offer a wide range of enterprise-level tools and capabilities. Additionally, both companies offer cloud security, compliance, and governance solutions. Yet, each cloud governance platform has its strengths. Each has its tradeoffs. So, before you choose Flexera or CloudHealth, here’s what you need to know.

We had the opening keynote by Adam Selipsky. If you missed the live stream, you can watch it on YouTube here. Unsurprisingly, so much of the keynote was about AI.

Azure Cosmos DB, offered by Microsoft as an integral part of the Azure cloud platform, is a multi-model database service with a global distribution. It efficiently partitions data for the creation of exceptionally scalable applications. Being a fully managed solution, Azure Cosmos DB relieves you of the responsibilities associated with database administration. It takes care of management tasks like updates and patches automatically.

Today Sysdig has been recognized for achieving the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Ready designation from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This specialization recognizes that the Sysdig cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) is validated by AWS Partner Solutions Architects to integrate with Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Anywhere. Amazon EKS Ready Partners like Sysdig offer AWS customers the ability to customize the Kubernetes solution to fit their business needs.

Migrating to the cloud, in whole or in part, can be tempting for organizations of all sizes. The cloud offers agility, potential cost savings, and scalability — all without a commitment to physical devices. But what about the risk? Migrating to the cloud can be a complicated undertaking with the potential for missteps and hidden expenses. You’ll need to take a careful look at why you want to migrate to the cloud, as well as do the work researching cloud vendors and migration approaches.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a range of managed database services that provide multiple database technologies to handle various use cases. They are designed to free businesses from tasks like database administration, maintenance, upgrades, and backup. AWS databases come in several types to cater to different business needs.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the 2023 AWS Partner Award winners, recognizing leaders around the globe playing a key role helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS. Announced during re:Invent 2023, AWS Partner Awards recognize our Top Partners of the Year and Rising Star Partners of the Year, whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and collaboration over the past year.

This is the fifth and final part of this FinOps series, The Operate Phase. If you have missed any of my previous blogs, here is a list of posts in the series: Note: I am ex-AWS, so you will notice a lot more focus on AWS tools and services as examples here, however we are cloud agnostic and all cloud providers have similar services and tools.

After the absolute barrage of announcements on day 0, day 1 brought us some mild excitement and one big disappointment…