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Amazon DynamoDB Pricing Simplified: A 2024 Guide For Cost Savings

You’re not alone if you’ve had trouble understanding Amazon DynamoDB pricing. Getting a handle on DynamoDB costs can be complex and tedious. But with the right tools and resources, it doesn’t have to be. In this bookmarkable guide, we’ll break it down step-by-step so you can tell what drives DynamoDB costs.

What is the Well-Architected Cloud Test Suite?

When it comes to reliability, cloud providers use a Shared Responsibility Model. In essence, they’ll keep the infrastructure reliable, while you’re responsible for architecting reliability into your systems. To help make this easier, they’ve published a variety of best practice guides, such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework. These lengthy documents are filled with recommendations to help you architect a more secure, more reliable system.

Azure Logic Apps: Automated Testing Framework Feature

Upcoming Enhancements in Azure Logic Apps: Automated Testing Framework Feature with Wagner Silveira In this episode of "INTEGRATE expert voices - Unplugged" series from the Azure on Air podcast, host Michael Stephenson dives deep with Wagner Silveira from the Microsoft Azure Logic Apps team. They discuss exciting upcoming improvements in Azure Logic Apps designed to enhance the developer experience, particularly in the realm of testing.

Understanding and Configuring APN Settings for IoT Devices

The Internet of Things (IoT) landscape is expanding rapidly, and devices are seamlessly collecting and transmitting data. However, achieving this flawlessness requires an important element: the access point name (APN). By understanding APN settings and configuration methods, you'll enable your devices to perform flawlessly, whether you're managing an industrial sensor network or a fleet of connected logistics trackers.

In-App Wiki - Built-in Knowledge Repository | Turbo360

Turbo360 provides a built-in knowledge repository through Wiki, allowing users to create informative articles. Michael Stephenson walks through this new feature in Turbo360. The in-app Wiki helps create and manage knowledge base information directly within Turbo360, making it easier for support teams to access and share information. Key points covered include: The goal of Wiki is to reduce the number of support tickets escalating to the development team by empowering L1 and L2 support teams with better resources.

Azure Storage Pricing 101 - Guide to Blob, Cold & File Storage Costs

Microsoft Azure storage pricing can be confusing. With cloud storage-specific tiers, reservations, time lengths, and other cost considerations, starting monthly budget calculations can be more than intimidating—especially since you’ll also want to watch out for any extra provider-specific fees. We’ll break things down so you can easily calculate your Azure storage pricing.

Azure DevOps Services Pricing - How Much Does Azure DevOps Cost

Calculating your Azure DevOps budget doesn’t need to make your palms clammy. Consider this your 2024 guide to figuring out all you need about Azure DevOps pricing so nothing sneaks up on your monthly budget. But let’s define some terms before we get into the nitty-gritty details.

Azure Functions Pricing - 2024 Guide to Azure Functions Costs & Optimization

Azure Functions is a serverless computer Microsoft Azure service. Its goal is to enable developers to create scalable, cost-optimized, event-driven applications without the hassle of server management. However, like most Azure cloud-based offerings, the costs of Azure Functions can be muddied by the different pricing models and the factors that can increase (or decrease) your monthly bill. Our guide simplifies things so you can be confident your Azure spend is optimized down to the last dime.

Cross-Cloud Networking: VPC Networking

Cross-cloud networking is a common topic among Google Cloud customers as they deploy and manage workloads across multiple clouds. Watch along as Sri Nannapaneni, Customer Engineer at Google Cloud, discusses Google Cloud connectivity services and a VPC design pattern for cross-cloud and on premises communication.