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FinOps: Measuring Cloud Waste

Cloud spend — which research shows makes up 51% of IT budgets — is a prime candidate for company cost savings initiatives with the potential to make a huge difference in gross margins. It’s also an area that has grown dramatically in the last few years due to digital transformation and a rise in cloud demand during the pandemic.

Send Amazon VPC flow logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Datadog

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is an isolated and secure virtual network in which you can deploy resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances, while restricting their exposure to the internet. As part of your monitoring strategy, you can collect and analyze VPC flow logs, which record network traffic flow between VPC components.

Simplify infrastructure and reduce costs with VPC Flow Logs ingest via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose into Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic is proud to announce that, in collaboration with AWS, we now fully support Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs ingestion via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. Customers can now simplify log delivery to Sumo Logic which is natively integrated with Kinesis Data Firehose. You can also simplify your toolchains for aggregating, transforming and enriching VPC Flow Logs using Kinesis Data Firehose.

One codebase, many projects: Drupal multisite fleet management

For years, Chromatic managed virtual servers on behalf of our clients. As tools like Upsun matured, our team realized we were spending much of our clients’ budgets on simply maintaining those servers—instead of making their sites better (which is kind of our reason for existing).

What is Hybrid Cloud Monitoring?

Cloud computing is becoming extremely popular. As a result, the trust in hybrid Cloud platforms is also increasing day by day. By combining the benefits of a Cloud platform with legacy systems, the hybrid cloud model offers something for every kind of business. But, without a strategy to manage operations on a hybrid Cloud model, it is challenging to extract maximum value from it. This blog will examine the best practices for hybrid Cloud management.

PagerDuty Apps for AWS + Automated Diagnostics Demo

Reduce downtime and customer impact with service ownership while enabling teams to drive continuous improvement and innovation Learn about how you can modernize and optimize your operations with our enterprise-grade set of AWS integrations. Automate incident response with PagerDuty’s Runbook Automation and learn about our new set of AWS plugins and prebuilt jobs that make it easier to get up and running with auto-diagnostics.

A Guide to Effective Hybrid Cloud Management

Cloud computing is becoming extremely popular. As a result, the trust in hybrid Cloud platforms is also increasing day by day. By combining the benefits of a Cloud platform with legacy systems, the hybrid cloud model offers something for every kind of business. But, without a strategy to manage operations on a hybrid Cloud model, it is challenging to extract maximum value from it. This blog will examine the best practices for hybrid Cloud management.

Is Docker Good for Hosting?

Do you already know about Docker and finding out whether it is good for hosting? Are you wondering why Docker containers are so popular? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you are at the right place. Here we’ll discuss the meaning and working of Docker hosting. By the end of this article, you will also be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of Docker. I’ll be covering the best server for Docker and throw some light on whether you should use Docker at all.

Introducing Kubernetes control plane metrics in GKE

An essential aspect of operating any application is the ability to observe the health and performance of that application and of the underlying infrastructure to quickly resolve issues as they arise. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) already provides audit logs, operational logs, and metrics along with out-of-the-box dashboards and automatic error reporting to facilitate running reliable applications at scale.