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M5 Instance Types 101: The Definitive Guide For 2023

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service provides a variety of virtual machines (instances) for compute workloads. Among those, Amazon EC2 M5 instances are among the most versatile. In addition, there are different types of M5 instances available. Each of these has its own best use case. In this guide, we share an in-depth look at M5 instance types, sizes, and when to use them.

Recapping this year's AWS re:Invent 2022

Amazon recently concluded their five-day long conference, AWS re:Invent 2022. This year’s conference was hybrid with the company streaming a significant portion of their in-person conference for free. For ten years now, the event has seen attendees across the cloud continuum come together to learn, share and get inspired. This year was no different as we saw some of the biggest names in cloud computing make their presence felt at the conference in Las Vegas.

The Hidden Costs of Serverless Observability

The growing popularity of serverless architectures has led to an increased need for solutions to the modern challenges of microservice observability—one of the most critical components for running high-performing, secure, and resilient serverless applications. Observability solutions have to break through the complexity of serverless systems, and with the right stack, observability enables not only fast and easy debugging of applications, but drives optimization and cost efficiency.

Serverless roundup at AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS re:Invent was back and BIG last week in Las Vegas. Approximately 50,000 AWS customers and partners got together in Las Vegas to learn, talk shop, and maybe attend a couple of parties here and there. Not only did Lumigo have a booth, but our own Saar Tochner, R&D Team Lead and AWS Community Builder gave a well-received talk on Lambda extensions.

The Economics Behind Cloud-First Data Protection

If you’re still reliant on legacy local-first backup, you may not fully realize the financial impact of old-school image backup on your business. In today’s cloud-first world, it’s time to take a look at a modern cloud-first approach to data protection as a service. This webinar will walk you through the hidden (and not so hidden) costs of continuing to manage backup using either an image-based software product (like Veeam) or an integrated appliance (like Datto). We’ll do the math to show you a more cost-effective alternative.

Cloud Monitoring: Troubleshoot misfired alerts

Have you ever received an unexpected Cloud Alerting incident? Would you like to learn how to prevent unexpected alerts? In this video, we cover some key concepts related to Alert Policy configuring in Google Cloud Monitoring. We’ll show you how to troubleshoot two unexpected incidents one on Metric and one on Log based metric alerting policies and explore configuration improvements to prevent future false alerts.