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What is AWS CloudTrail?

Classified as a "Management and Governance” tool in the AWS console, AWS CloudTrail is an auditing, compliance monitoring and governance tool from Amazon Web Services (AWS). With CloudTrail, AWS account owners can ensure every API call made to every resource in their AWS account is recorded and written to a log. An API call request can be made when: These actions can be coming from: CloudTrail saves the API events in a secured, immutable format, which can be used for later analysis.

Limit deployments to Upsun only with tags: part one

Throughout the years, many users have asked us if it’s possible to only deploy to Upsun when a tag is pushed using a source code integration. The answer is: with our current source integrations, it's not—but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Upsun is based on Git and because of this, acts as a remote for your code repository.

AIOps vs. Observability: Which Is Better and Why?

If you’ve been keeping up on what’s buzzing in the IT operations and software development space in the past few years, then you know that the concepts of AIOps and observability have been getting a lot of attention. And while they are related, they each address a different aspect of managing and monitoring IT systems.

InfluxData Collaborating with AWS to Bring InfluxDB and Time Series Analytics to Developers Around the World

SAN FRANCISCO – March 14, 2024 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run InfluxDB open source natively within the AWS Management Console.

AWS Partners with InfluxData to Bring InfluxDB Open Source to Developers Around the World

Today, AWS announced Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run single-instance open source InfluxDB natively within the AWS console. This partnership represents a significant multi-year commitment by AWS to combine its global reach and accessibility with our industry-leading time series database, InfluxDB. AWS adding InfluxDB as a preferred time series database reflects the demand from AWS customers for InfluxDB and evidence of the time series market acceleration.

Conquering Data Lakes and Searching Google Cloud Storage Buckets With Cribl Search

What might you accomplish if you could easily search your data lakes without paying to move the data first? The most likely outcome is that you address a critical security incident quicker than ever, save your organization millions of dollars, get a promotion, and then go down in history as the best-looking, most talented analyst to have searched a storage bucket.

The Role Of Cloud Cost Management In Environmental Sustainability

In an era where cloud computing has become the backbone of global business operations, its impact on the environment cannot be overlooked. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, data centers’ energy consumption and carbon footprint have surged, highlighting a critical need for sustainable practices. One often underappreciated lever for environmental stewardship within this digital infrastructure is effective cloud cost management.