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A decade after launching Reserved Instances (RIs), Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans as a more flexible alternative to RIs. AWS Savings Plans are not meant to replace Reserved Instances; they are complementary. SPs and RIs have some significant differences that make each better suited to specific uses. For example, while Savings Plans apply to both EC2 and Fargate instances, RIs only apply to EC2 instances. Let’s break down AWS Savings Plans vs.

Are you tired of feeling like you're in the dark about the services you're paying for? Are you getting what you paid for? Many businesses are in the same boat when it comes to Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring and reporting. It’s great having an SLA (or Service-Level Agreement) for the provision of a service, but you need to go further to really understand if the standards specified in the SLA are actually being met. That’s where SLA monitoring and reporting comes in.

In the fast-paced world of retail, staying ahead of changing consumer demands is more challenging than ever. As retailers strive to enhance customer experiences and maintain competitiveness, many are turning to the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI). Zebra Technologies is at the forefront of this movement, offering AI solutions that unlock the potential of frontline operations, allowing retailers to make smarter business decisions.

As businesses scale, so do their observability needs, but many find themselves stuck with costly, inflexible platforms that no longer serve them. Despite mounting frustrations, the complexity of migration keeps companies from making a change. The risk of losing critical data, disrupting workflows, or rebuilding everything from scratch often outweighs the benefits of switching. Most vendors offer little to no migration support, forcing teams to manually reconfigure dashboards, alerts, and integrations.

When you hear “spill the tea,” you probably think of pop culture, not outages or anomalies. But the origin may surprise you: before it was slang for juicy gossip, ‘tea’ was actually ‘T,’ which represents truth. We know what you’re thinking: “Are you trying to say ‘spilling the tea’ is a good thing?” And yes, that’s exactly what we’re saying, especially when your logs are doing the talking.

OpenTelemetry is emerging as the common framework for collecting observability data, and for good reason. It’s vendor-neutral, open source, and designed to collect traces, metrics, and logs in a consistent way. But while most of the buzz is around tracing and metrics, let’s not forget: logs are still the backbone of investigation and response. That’s why Graylog now supports native collection of OpenTelemetry data over gRPC.

This post, part six of our OWASP CI/CD Top 10 series, looks at some of the common risks associated with Insufficient Credential Hygiene. By better understanding the flaws that affect credential hygiene, we can better understand how even the most sophisticated pipelines were compromised.