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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 fully-featured services. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Lambda, and the AWS Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are some of the most critical services you should become familiar with. We’ve previously covered Amazon ECS vs. EKS vs. Fargate for managing and deploying containers. This guide will explain how Amazon EC2, Lambda, ECS, and S3 compare and when you’ll want to use each.

Today, we’re excited to announce Gremlin Private Edition, a version of Gremlin that you can run entirely within your own private network.

Learn how to set up a Preservation Hold in SharePoint Online using Microsoft Purview to retain and protect critical business data.

Logging is essential for understanding what’s happening inside your software. It helps developers and operators catch issues, monitor system health, and track application behavior. A big part of logging is log levels—these indicate how serious a message is, from routine updates to critical errors. In this post, we’ll break down everything you need to know about log levels, how they compare to Syslog log levels, and best practices for making the most of your logs.

Modern software systems are complex, with multiple services interacting across different environments. Understanding how they behave—tracking performance, identifying bottlenecks, and diagnosing failures—requires more than just collecting data. OpenTelemetry provides a standardized way to gather logs, metrics, and traces, but the real value comes from making that data easy to interpret through visualization.