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Prometheus and CloudWatch Integration for AWS Metric Collection

The Prometheus CloudWatch exporter pulls AWS CloudWatch metrics into your Prometheus setup, giving you a unified view of your infrastructure alongside application metrics. If you're already running Prometheus and need visibility into AWS services like EC2, RDS, or Lambda, this exporter handles the integration without forcing you to switch monitoring stacks.

Common Drupal deployment pitfalls and how cloud automation fixes them

Deploying a Drupal 10 or Drupal 11 application can feel like walking through a minefield of potential problems. Even a well-built Drupal site can stumble during deployment due to a few common pitfalls. For IT managers and technical project leads, understanding these pitfalls—and how cloud automation can solve them—means fewer late-night emergencies and smoother launches.

Elastic Cloud Serverless now generally available on Microsoft Azure

Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions — without managing infrastructure. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure — now available in the EastUS region. Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions without managing infrastructure.

Achieving Full Visibility: Modern Monitoring for Distributed Cloud Applications

Today’s applications are hybrid, cloud-centric, service-oriented, API-dependent, and geographically distributed. The monitoring practices we relied on for decades are no longer sufficient. It is critical to monitor all the internet-centric dependencies, connectivity, and cloud application components – and to do so from the user’s perspective so IT operations teams can achieve digital resilience and deliver performance. This session will cover DEM, APM, and IPM and how they can work together to pinpoint issues before they occur, so users receive a great digital experience.

Pepperdata Resource Optimization for Data Workloads on Kubernetes

Struggling with underutilized Kubernetes resources or rising cloud costs? Learn how Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer delivers real-time, automated resource optimization for Kubernetes and Amazon EMR workloads—helping teams reduce costs and boost performance without manual tuning. In this video, discover how Pepperdata helps DevOps, platform engineers, and FinOps teams.

Self-hosted runners vs cloud CI/CD: A complete decision guide

Your CFO just asked about operational efficiencies across the engineering org. Tooling budgets are under the microscope, and suddenly CI/CD costs are getting attention. Sound familiar? When the pressure’s on to cut software spend, CI/CD often looks like a tempting target. It’s visible, measurable, and seemingly easy to move.

GPU Powerhouse: Scaling an AI Cloud in the Heart of Europe

The AI revolution needs more than models - it needs massive infrastructure. And Julien Gauthier is building it. In this episode of Uplink, Julien, CEO of Arkane Cloud, joins host Michael Reid to unpack how his company scaled from 3D rendering and gaming to delivering GPU cloud services for AI workloads across the globe. We explore how Arkane built a 1,000-GPU cluster in Paris (with capacity for 6,000), the rise of inference workloads in Europe, and the real-world engineering and business challenges of deploying high-density infrastructure - including cutting-edge liquid cooling handling 135kW per cabinet.

Trace Distributed Map states for AWS Step Functions with Datadog

AWS Step Functions offers the Distributed Map state, enabling you to coordinate massively parallel workloads within your serverless applications. With this feature, a single Step Functions execution can fan out into up to 10,000 parallel workflows simultaneously, making it possible to efficiently process millions of items in parallel. This capability unlocks new possibilities for large-scale data processing, such as image transformation, log ingestion, or batch analytics.

Master Your AWS Cloud Environment With Observability

In many cases, cloud and on-premises environments exist side by side. The only way to maintain visibility into such intricate hybrid ecosystems is with a sophisticated end-to-end observability solution. Here are the key factors in choosing a comprehensive observability solution to help you master your AWS cloud and on-prem environments.

32 Best FinOps Tools For 2025: Features And Comparison

In recent years, cloud financial management has evolved beyond what many cloud stakeholders anticipated. The overwhelm has led too many companies to struggle to accurately monitor, allocate, and optimize their cloud costs. This issue cost companies about 30% of their cloud budgets in 2022 alone, according to Gartner. With FinOps, you can prevent this bleeding without sacrificing innovation. Yet, taking a manual approach to FinOps can be inefficient and error-prone.