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LightMesh now integrates with AWS, providing automated discovery and unified management of your cloud networking resources. This powerful integration eliminates fragmented visibility across VPCs and regions, giving you real-time insights into your entire AWS infrastructure through a single, intuitive platform.

CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code. There are also a number of useful metrics for non-web-request based functions, like metrics on concurrent database requests. We use them at Honeycomb to get statistics on load balancers and RDS instances. The Amazon Data Firehose is able to export directly to Honeycomb as well, which makes getting the data into Honeycomb straightforward.

Imagine a day at work where you realize that your team’s youngest developer has failed to kill a compute instance; the bill spikes and the budget is breached. Rightsizing recommendations would come to the rescue and play a crucial role in such situations by identifying underutilized, overutilized, or mismanaged resources and suggesting corrective actions.

The Amazon Redshift data cloud provides a fast, secure, and widely accessible data warehouse solution. It is an ideal platform for performing complex analytics and processing large data sets. In addition to supporting multi-parallel processing (MPP), Redshift is also a type of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) database. Yet, one of Redshift’s main selling points is its cost-effectiveness over alternatives like Snowflake and BigQuery. Is this the case? What is the actual cost of Amazon Redshift?

To coincide with KubeCon Europe 2025, we’re excited to announce the latest release of Densify’s Kubernetes optimization engine, Kubex, which delivers full-stack resource management and seamless automation resource optimization at enterprise scale. This release delivers the advanced controls enterprises have been asking for—without sacrificing the intelligence and precision that sets Densify apart.

Not long ago, our co-founder and CTO, Erik Peterson, shared some insights on AI spending. He shared how AI costs currently fall under the write-off-friendly world of R&D. He also acknowledged why DevOps teams might feel it’s too early to start optimizing AI costs. As the saying goes, “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” But after more than a decade of software development, Erik knows that eventually, research, experimentation, and big ideas need to deliver real returns.

Microsoft recently announced significant changes to its OneDrive licensing and storage policies, affecting organizations that heavily rely on cloud storage solutions. Starting January 27, 2025, unlicensed OneDrive accounts—those without assigned user licenses—will be automatically archived after 93 days, rendering them inaccessible unless covered by retention policies or legal holds.

With ten years at Pulsant, Waseem Aslam, Data Centre Manager, has climbed the ranks from engineer to leader, embracing challenges and innovation along the way. In this Q&A, he shares insights into his journey, the supportive Pulsant culture that kept him motivated, and the opportunities that have shaped his career.