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10 Alerts and Visualizations for S3 Server Access Logs to take control of AWS infrastructure

AWS S3 Server Access logs provide detailed records for requests made to S3 buckets. They’re useful for many applications. For example, access log information can be useful in security and access audits. It can also help generate customer insights and better understand your Amazon S3 bill. Coralogix makes it easy to integrate with your S3 server access logs via a Lambda function.

AWS: How did we monitor the cloud in 2019?

We had a busy 2019 with a substantial number of Amazon Web Service (AWS) integrations into Site24x7, each providing a seamless monitoring experience for our customers. The increasing number of paid AWS monitors is proof that we enhanced the monitoring expectations in 2019. In case you missed any updates about the AWS monitoring platform, here's a year-end review.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk .NET Core Getting Started

AWS offers a variety of services to solve specific needs. There are some core services, like EC2 and VPC, that let you create an infrastructure for your applications that scales easily. But if you’re new to AWS and also new to infrastructure, you might need to invest some time reading before you deploy your application to AWS. I remember my first time using AWS; the sysadmin explained to me what systems we were using in AWS to run the company’s main application.

Monitor Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka with Datadog

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) is a fully managed service that allows developers to build highly available and scalable applications on Kafka. In addition to enabling developers to migrate their existing Kafka applications to AWS, Amazon MSK handles the provisioning and maintenance of Kafka and ZooKeeper nodes and automatically replicates data across multiple availability zones for high availability.

Google Cloud Platform Serverless Ingestion into Splunk

If you have or plan to collect data from Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you will have noticed that your option of ingesting data has been by using Splunk’s Google Cloud Platform Add-On. However, many customers are adopting “serverless” cloud services to deliver their cloud solutions. There are many reasons for this, but mainly it provides solutions that do not require any overheads of server or container management, that scale and is delivered as a part of their cloud platform.

Comparing Managed MySQL Services on AWS, Azure, and GCP

MySQL is a popular open-sourced relational database server. It comes in many flavours, including Enterprise and Community editions. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform all provide their own managed MySQL services. The available versions and features vary from provider to provider. As an added complexity, AWS provides three different MySQL services, each one of them different. Let’s take a closer look.

Lumigo announces ISO 27001 & 27799 certification

Lumigo is pleased to announce that it has achieved ISO 27001 and ISO 27799 (HIPAA compliance) certification. The certifications require the company to undergo annual auditing to ensure it meets exacting standards for its information security procedures and handling of Protected Health Information.

Splunk Stream 7.2 - Integration with Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring

Recently, our good friends at Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched an awesome new product, VPC Traffic Mirroring. Here at Splunk, we are excited about this new capability as it allows our Splunk Stream platform to ingest this data, and send it on to any Splunk instance, in the cloud or on premises. Leveraging this capability allows Splunk users to collect specific network data from their AWS environment, and use it to fulfill security, IT Ops, or business-focused use cases.