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Embracing IPv6: Anodot's Guide to a Smooth Transition

Mark your calendars: From February 1, 2024, AWS is introducing a $0.005 hourly charge for all public IPv4 addresses. With IPv4 addresses becoming rarer and pricier, AWS is pushing us to be more IPv4-efficient and highlights the urgent need for businesses to adopt IPv6. Where’s This Change Happening? This isn’t just a small tweak, it will affect all AWS services that use public IPv4 addresses. We’re talking about everything from EC2 and RDS database instances to EKS nodes.

Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Microsoft Azure in just minutes

Developers and SREs choose Microsoft Azure to run their applications because it is a trustworthy world-class cloud platform. It has also proven itself over the years as an extremely powerful and reliable infrastructure for hosting business-critical applications. Elastic Observability offers over 25 out-of-the-box integrations for Microsoft Azure services with more on the way. A full list of Azure integrations can be found in our online documentation.

Forward logs from Google Cloud Platform to Site24x7 with Dataflow

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enables organizations to create and scale applications. Activities in applications, whether on Compute Engine or other services from virtual machines to serverless environments on GCP, produce a significant amount of logs. Logs play a crucial role in helping you achieve effective observability and troubleshooting. But the logs may experience irregular surges in data ingestion during major system events, posing challenges for network overhead.

How to Optimize Your AWS Costs in 2024: Top Vendors, Tips, and More

Sigh...in the blink of an eye, AWS now has hundreds of thousands of SKUs, 180 different types of services, 17 different ways to launch a container, and has dozens upon dozens of regions and availability zones. No wonder AWS billing has become so complex to understand. Is there a fix?

The Top 25 Vendor Selection Software and Tools in 2024

I’m LV, co-founder and CEO of Taloflow, a technology selection platform built for the AI productivity era. I’ve spent more than a year interviewing over 200 enterprise IT procurement professionals and IT and Engineering decision-makers and have found that the space of software selection and procurement is undergoing a sea change in expectations. Based on the interviews, I’ve determined nine steps in the software procurement lifecycle, but these are more fluid than ever.

The Best Free Cloud Storage for Backups in 2024

As we move into 2024, cloud storage is not just a convenience but a necessity for individuals and businesses. With this in mind, this article explores the increasing relevance of free cloud storage solutions, a brief history of their evolution, and how free cloud storage can help you manage your data securely. With the rise of internet connectivity and the proliferation of smart devices , free cloud storage has become more relevant than ever.

Ingest, search, aggregate, view, and analyse data with Aiven for OpenSearch on GCP

Ever considered bringing OpenSearch’s powerful capabilities to your GCP data infrastructure, but not sure where to start? Tune in to our webinar to hear top tips from Aiven’s technical experts and OpenSearch gurus. Expect to learn: AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

7 Best VPN Services for 2024

It’s 2024 and it’s time to get up to speed. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is an absolute necessity for anyone working remotely or anyone who travels often. That said, there are plenty of other people who would benefit from a solid VPN. VPNs work by providing an end-to-end encrypted tunnel between your device and the VPN operator’s server. All of your traffic is then encrypted and routed through this tunnel.