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AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is a managed service ideal for large clusters of nodes running heavy and variable workloads. Because of how account permissions work in AWS, EKS's architecture is unusual and creates slight differences in your monitoring strategy. Overall, it's still the same Kubernetes you know and love.

With the nearly unmatched reliability and scalability offered by the 12-factor application design pattern, microservice-based designs have become a fundamental architectural pattern for modern applications. A whole industry of cloud providers has sprung up to offer management of the sophisticated middleware and infrastructure services that make this possible. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is among the largest of them.

If you manage applications running on cloud platforms, you likely depend on multiple cloud vendors and services. These could be infrastructure providers like AWS, GCP or Azure. A vulnerability in any of these services could potentially impact your applications and your users. A cloud platform has many moving parts, many of which are dependent on other third-party providers.

At Uptime.com, we’re committed to helping you monitor and manage the uptime and reliability of your websites and critical infrastructure. Based on your feedback, we’ve enhanced Cloud Status to deliver even more powerful insights into third-party dependencies and improve your experience. Here’s what’s new and what’s coming next!

Cloud computing is like the modern, virtual frontier where organizations can scale their operations with just a click. But, building your cloud infrastructure is not just about choosing servers and storage. It’s also about establishing a secure, efficient network to ensure your applications run smoothly and your data is protected. Think of your cloud network as a cloud city.

If picking the best database management system (DBMS) were a road trip, both MongoDB and DynamoDB would get you there. Ultimately, it comes down to choosing whether you need the specialized efficiency of DynamoDB within Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the “off-road” flexibility of platform-agnostic MongoDB. What do road trips and off-road antics have to do with deciding between MongoDB vs. DynamoDB?

Petabytes of monthly data transfer. Thousands of concurrent requests per customer. Hundreds of thousands of requests per minute per customer. The JFrog Platform is a mission critical piece of software development and delivery infrastructure for companies that require performance at scale. When you’re supporting thousands of developers, even a minute of downtime or delay can mean millions of dollars lost productivity.