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On Tuesday, June 7, internet users in numerous countries from East Africa to the Middle East to South Asia experienced an hours-long degradation in service due to an outage at one of the internet’s most critical chokepoints: Egypt. Beginning at approximately 12:25 UTC, multiple submarine cables connecting Europe and Asia experienced outages lasting over four hours. As I show below, the impacts were visible in various types of internet measurement data to the affected countries.

This blog is the third in a four-part series about how Puppet can help government agencies meet compliance and security requirements. Read the second post here. Government agency IT departments know that migrating applications to the cloud can improve efficiency, increase visibility, and reduce costs. They also recognize the value in keeping some operation resources on-premises.

I love what we are building here at Shipa, and I couldn’t be more proud of all the great things the team is constantly delivering, but one thing I like is having personal projects. These help me keep up to date with technology and learn new things. I try to keep the investment in those projects at a minimum and under control. That goes across both the timing and the resources invested. My most recent project is related to the experience when defining cloud-native applications.

In part one of this two-part blog post, we began our deep dive into Apache Spark tuning to optimize resources. We looked at what is involved in executor and partition sizing, particularly choosing the number of partitions and choosing an executor size. After establishing some principles of optimization here, we ended by asking an important question: Is it really practical for all applications to be optimized? As our recent State of the Market report helped reveal, the answer is two-sided. The good news?

For their MaaS Solution (monitoring as a service), Pandora FMS partners with OVHcloud to ensure data sovereignty, European technological independence and top quality service with datacenters in Europe, America and Asia.

Whether you’re a product manager, a marketing organization, or in finance, you’re probably using the cloud in some way. But many businesses are still immature when it comes to building systems in the cloud, especially when it comes to how they use their financial resources. Here, CloudZero founder and CTO Erik Peterson breaks down the responsibility of using the cloud, how to break down the costs of cloud computing, and what you need to do to change the conversation from cost to profit.

While organizations have been moving to modernize their IT infrastructures by adopting cloud-native Kubernetes technologies, the pandemic helped accelerate this movement. The surge in cloud services adoption during the lockdowns emphasized the need for organizations to make their business and technology models more agile.

This blog is a quick guide on how we can use BAM with Power Automate.

Migrating your DNS to a cloud-based service like Amazon’s Route53 service can be a daunting task. With dns-tools, you can test your DNS records before and after the migration to ensure that everything made it across in one piece. If you are migrating from a BIND DNS server, see our blog post here. Follow these four steps to migrate from a Windows DNS Active-Directory integrated server to Route53.