As we dive into 2024 the relentless march of technological progress combined with economic green shoots (the year the ‘UK turns a page on the difficult post post-pandemic years ) it should be an exciting opportunity for Data Centres and the talent who work in them…and whilst people are clearly excited about the opportunities this presents for the industry, there remains a nervousness.

Serverless platforms like AWS Fargate enable teams to focus on delivering value to customers by freeing up time otherwise spent managing infrastructure and operations. However, maintaining a deep level of observability into applications running on these fully managed platforms remains challenging.

DevOps emphasizes continuous improvement, rapid delivery, and cost optimization. It does this by recommending several engineering best practices you can implement in your IT environments. DevOps also emphasizes automation to improve efficiency and engineering velocity in software delivery. In this guide, we will cover the importance of DevOps monitoring. This will include what to monitor and a list of some of the best monitoring tools for DevOps teams.

Navigating the cloud computing landscape often involves a delicate balancing act between leveraging available resources and managing costs. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leader in cloud services, offers an enticing proposition through its Free Tier, especially with services like Amazon EC2 and RDS. These offerings present a unique opportunity for IT professionals to push the boundaries of cloud computing, but they also pose the challenges of staying within budgetary constraints.

Although IT spend, including on cloud services, cooled somewhat in 2023, the second half of the year showed signs of stability, even resilience, buoyed in part by the growing interest in generative AI. For cloud market leader AWS, with 31% global share, the company’s efforts to cut costs and enhance efficiency resulted in substantial profit improvements. Like its peers, AWS also sees great potential in AI and came out with a slew of capabilities towards the end of the year.