At first, the benefits of public cloud adoption are clearly recognisable: newfound agility through an all-you-can-eat and on demand buffet of services, platforms, and infrastructure. But without appropriate monitoring, guardrails and process changes, this can change fast. While the perception is that cloud offers unlimited scalability and lower costs by only charging for the resources you use, the truth is that customers pay for the resources they order, whether they use them or not.

Setting clear and attainable goals for cloud cost optimization keeps your whole organization on track and working toward a common end. The emphasis here is on clear and attainable. In other words, your team must know where they are headed and have full confidence that they can get there.

SaaS companies are known for their strong margins. With gross margins typically in the 60-90% range, even SaaS companies with comparatively weaker margins have a compelling business model when compared with most other industries. Nonetheless, even a few percentage points of margin can have a huge impact on a company’s valuation and overall success. This chart, taken from a great article by Villi Iltche at Two Sigma Ventures, shows the correlation between gross margins and valuation.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) eases deploying and running Kubernetes on the AWS platform. A fully managed Kubernetes service, EKS eliminates the need to install, configure, or maintain Kubernetes nodes or control planes on your own. With EKS, you can leverage the performance, scalability, and availability of AWS infrastructure, along with integrations with multiple AWS compute, storage, security, serverless, and networking services.

Today I’m going to speak about another important Best practice, Tips and Tricks that you need to take into consideration while you are designing your business processes (Logic Apps): using other HTTP Methods then POST.

Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL is a fully managed relational database service for PostgreSQL that is powered by the open source Citus extension. With remote query execution and support for JSON-B, geospatial data, rich indexing, and high-performance scale-out, Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL enables users to build applications on single- or multi-node clusters.

Send your Aiven service metrics and logs to AWS CloudWatch with the Aiven Amazon CloudWatch integration. Find out how.