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AWS Cloud Performance Anomaly Detection - A Real-life Case Study

Here’s a myth that needs to be debunked – the cloud will take care of my performance problems! Our experience shows that cloud architecture usually introduces new layers of complexities that did not exist in the on-premises world. You need a modern AI-powered full stack monitoring solution to find the needle in the multi-layered haystack that is the cloud. Sometimes, it’s the cloud vendor who has to fix the issue.

EC2 Reserved Instance: Everything You Need to Know

An Amazon Reserved Instance (RI) is one of the most powerful cost savings tools available on AWS. It’s officially described as a billing discount applied to the use of an on-demand instance in your account. To truly understand what RI is, we need to take a step back and look at the different payment options for AWS.

Accelerating Cloud Monitoring via the Logz.io Azure Native Integration

Watch this Logz.io and the Azure Cloud team webinar to learn about the Logz.io Azure Marketplace native integration. More specifically, about: Collecting logs from Azure resources or applications in minutes with Logz.io — all within the Azure Portal. Integrate Logz.io with Active Directory SSO for access control. Collect their logs through a new “pay for what you use” pricing model — rather than committing to log volumes and plans upfront.

What we learned from AWS's us-east-1 outage

In case you missed it, for several hours on December 7, 2021, AWS's us-east-1 region had an outage impacting multiple AWS APIs, taking out various websites across the internet. According to our own monitoring at OnlineOrNot, the outage started at 2021-12-07 15:32 UTC and began to recover well at 2021-12-07 22:48 UTC (with minor signs of life for a few minutes around 2021-12-07 20:08 UTC). Had we relied solely on AWS to update their status page before reacting, we would have been waiting a while.

Share your failures, fix them faster with shareable activities

When you’re working with a Continuous Delivery workflow, you rely on building and deploying your websites in such a way that any improvements can be released into production any time. Identifying and fixing failures quickly is key to enabling rapid development cycles. But what happens when you’re looking into a failed build step, with no clue as to how to address it? You can now share links to specific lines within the activity logs.

Estimating Your Cloud Costs is EASY. Do it in Just 3 Clicks.

One of our customers recently got their first bill after moving their Linux and Windows workloads to Azure. Their bill was astronomical! They struggled to answer the question, “how much will it cost?” and their initial cost assessments were vague at best. Here’s what they did.

Webinar (Public Sector, Public Cloud Case Study presented by Tidal Migrations) Cloudy Conference.

The public sector provides vital services especially during these times, as these organizations have urgent mandates to support citizen led deployments such as pandemic responses. Public cloud supports the public sector with the agility and security they require to perform these missions. Join David Colebatch and Jason Hurlbut as they share a case study and answer questions regarding a recent Canadian public sector client who embarked on a cloud migration journey for legacy applications. As a result this organization used 95% less code, and realized a faster time to value with greater ROI.

Monitor the Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache with Datadog

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database that scales automatically with load and supports multiple APIs. This makes it easy to incorporate with your applications while removing the need to maintain your own database servers. The Cosmos DB integrated cache—which is now in public preview—is a new offering that can help reduce costs and improve performance for Azure Cosmos DB.

What Value Does a Cloud Data Platform Hold For Your Business?

It has been roughly two decades since cloud computing first appeared on the scene, and yet, despite overwhelming evidence of the business operational productivity improvements, cost-savings, and competitive advantages it provides, a significant remnant of the banking industry remains open without using it.