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Cloud Elasticity: What Happens When You Lose Control

In an on-premises environment, you have to pay for the capacity you have regardless of whether you’re using it, and you can’t exceed that capacity without purchasing and provisioning new hardware. In the cloud, however, you have much more flexibility thanks to cloud elasticity, which is the ability to automatically provision or deprovision resources based on workload changes.

Canonical Achieves AWS Graviton Ready Designation

29 November 2021: Canonical, Publisher of Ubuntu, announced today that it has achieved the AWS Graviton Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Canonical + Ubuntu Server and Anbox Cloud Appliance has demonstrated successful integration with AWS Graviton Service.

CloudHedge Technologies Achieves AWS Migration and Modernization Competency Status

Plano, Texas – 29th November, 2021 – CloudHedge Technologies, Inc, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration and Modernization Competency status for AWS Partners. This designation recognizes that CloudHedge’s App Modernization platform—OmniDeq™ powered by R6Ai™— has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success automating and accelerating customer application migration and modernization journeys.

GCP Integrations for Metrics with Logz.io

Logz.io has dedicated itself to encouraging and supporting cloud-native development. That has meant doubling down on support for AWS and Azure, but also increasing our tie-ins with Google Cloud Platform – GCP. Recently, our team added dozens of new integrations for metrics covering the gamut of products in the GCP ecosystem.

Deploy Friday: E82 Enabling conversation - the design and linguistics of API documentation

APIs enable conversations, but how do you choose the right words for those conversations? We talk with three powerhouse technical writers and documentation managers, from Platform.sh, Splunk, and Sitecore, to get the best practices and frameworks behind world-class documentation.

Do you need a business case to migrate to the cloud? The answer is clear!

Summary The cloud is always innovating. One of the more recent and large breakthroughs has been the advancement and improvements in CPU architectures. Specifically with ARM CPU processors, where we are seeing adoption across all forms of computing, not only cloud, but also laptops with Apple’s M1, and of course in the past decade with mobile phones. The more recent availability in cloud computing therefore is not surprising, given the progress made in all other areas of technology.

Dashbird explained

Dashbird is an observability, debugging, and intelligence platform designed specifically to help serverless developers build, operate, improve, and scale their modern cloud applications on AWS environment fast, securely, and with ease. It’s free to use for up to 1M invocations and doesn’t require any code changes. Dashbird fills the gaps left by CloudWatch and other traditional monitoring tools by offering enhanced out-of-the-box monitoring, operations, and actionable insights tools for architectural improvements, all in one place.