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AWS X-Ray vs Jaeger - key features, differences and alternatives

Sep 14, 2021 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz

Both AWS X-Ray and Jaeger are distributed tracing tools used for performance monitoring in a microservices architecture. Jaeger was originally built by teams at Uber and then open-sourced in 2015. On the other hand, AWS X-Ray is a distributed tracing tool provided by AWS specifically focused on distributed tracing for applications using Amazon Cloud Services. Jaeger is a popular open-source tool that graduated as a project from Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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Overprovisioned and Overspent: Optimize Before You Lift and Shift

Sep 14, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds

Do you know what’s wrong with “lift and shift?” Everything. But why? In this video, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg dig into what goes wrong during on-prem to cloud migration of applications and systems in many organizations and how monitoring can help not only avoid those problems but improve the overall outcome as well.

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Monitoring Amazon AWS Cloud

Sep 14, 2021 By Arun Aravamudhan In eG Innovations

It is incumbent on cloud operations teams to choose the correct type of AWS EC2 instance relative to the underlying application. The wrong choice could adversely impact business and user experience. This article walks through a customer case study where the EC2 instance choice impacted their business.

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3 Ways to Use the xMatters and Google Operations Suite Integration

Sep 13, 2021 By Christine Astle In xMatters

Not too long ago, you would have needed development experience to oversee the delivery of scalable and reliable software. But with the rise of low-code and no-code tools, that requirement is now obsolete. What used to be hours of coding has turned into a few minutes of dragging and dropping.

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Destination Transformation: Planning Your Cloud Migration Journey

Sep 13, 2021 By Mark Heslop In Virtana

If the cloud is a destination you have planned for any of your enterprise workloads, then you need to be prepared to navigate the journey that is the cloud migration process. It’s not unlike planning for a physical trip to a fabulous destination (or maybe we’re just really really ready to start traveling again). Either way, we’ve got some travel tips to ensure that your cloud-bound workloads have a great trip.

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Maximizing Your Reserved Instances (RIs) in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud The Definitive Guide

Sep 13, 2021 By Densify

Public cloud providers have introduced reserved capacity commitments as a way to take control of your cloud costs. These are branded RIs in AWS, Azure calls them Reserved VM Instances, and Google Cloud has a similar concept of Committed Use Discounts. With the hundreds of different instance types available and not knowing your workload's exact requirements, how can you possibly take advantage of the benefits of RIs?

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The simplest way to deploy your apps on your AWS account

Sep 12, 2021 By Qovery In Qovery

Qovery is the simplest way to deploy your apps on your AWS account - here is a complete demo from zero to a deployed app on an AWS account.

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Trusted SBOMs Delivered with the JFrog Platform and AWS

Sep 10, 2021 By JFrog In JFrog

In this webinar, you’ll learn what an SBOM is, how it will benefit you, the misconceptions that exist around it and why it must be a key element of your software development life cycle's (SDLC) security and compliance. We’d also like to invite you to register for a joint JFrog-AWS webinar, where we’ll do a deep dive on SBOMs and share insights and best practices on SBOM creation and usage.

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Step up your multi-cloud management game with Kubernetes

Sep 10, 2021 By AppDynamics Team In AppDynamics

Managing containers effectively in multi-cloud environments is nearly impossible. Kubernetes makes it possible.

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Mounting FSx for ONTAP volumes to Kubernetes pods

Sep 9, 2021 By Amit Bar Oz In Spot

Last week, AWS and NetApp announced the general availability for AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP. In this blog post, we’ll go through the steps to create a FSx for ONTAP filesystem, and you’ll learn how to create volumes using Kubernetes resources with Astra Trident, and how to mount those volumes to pods. As a prerequisite, make sure to register to the Spot platform, connect your AWS account and have a Kubernetes cluster connected to Ocean using the following guides.

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