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Moving AWS Glue jobs to ECS on AWS Fargate led to 60% net savings

Last month, our team published a blog post titled How we reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by 67%, which went viral on HackerNews (Top 5). Clearly, developers are hungry to learn about new AWS cost-saving strategies. We’ve had a lot of questions about AWS cost optimization stemming from the original post. However, this question from Carl at Klarna inspired us to write another post. So without further delay, here’s how we approached the problem and made the switch.

Tagging 101: Basics & How to Implement a Comprehensive AWS Tagging Strategy

As cloud environments grow and evolve more rapidly than ever, and with new cloud services emerging every day, achieving and maintaining a high level of organization across hundreds of resources and global teams can seem like a daunting task. However, it’s not impossible, and can be done through tagging. This post will cover the fundamentals of tags, as well as a comprehensive roadmap to developing a tagging strategy.

Making the Collection of Centralised S3 Logs into Splunk easy with Lambda and SQS

Got multiple AWS data sources in the same S3 bucket but struggle with efficient SNS notifications based on prefix wildcards? Well, struggle no more, we’ve got your back. Many of our customers have a centralised S3 Bucket for log collection for multiple sources and accounts. For example, all Config, CloudTrail and Access Log logs may be routed into one central bucket for an organisation.

Monitoring AWS Fargate with Prometheus and Sysdig

In this article, we will show how it’s easily possible to monitor AWS Fargate with Sysdig Monitor. By leveraging existing Prometheus ingestion in Sysdig, you will be able to monitor serverless services with a single-pane-of-glass approach, giving you confidence in running these services in production.

The Ultimate Guide to Serverless Monitoring Platforms

Technology touches almost every corner of the world economy. Even when it’s an indirect relation, in many cases tech is an essential, vital part of our societies. It just can’t fail without causing too much distress and losses. Not only financially, but especially to the human aspect.

Using Recommenders to keep your cloud running optimally

As a cloud project owner, you want your environment to run smoothly and efficiently. At Google Cloud, one of the ways we help you do that is through a family of tools we call Recommenders, which leverage analytics and machine learning to automatically detect issues and present you with optimizations that you can act on.

How To Monitor AWS Elastic Load Balancer

Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancer (AWS ELB) enables websites and web services to serve more requests from users by adding more servers based on need. Unhealthy ELB can cause your website to go offline or slow down dramatically. Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

LogicTalks - How Aurora Innovates and Automates with Cloud Monitoring

In this episode of LogicTalks, Mark Banfield, Chief Revenue Officer at LogicMonitor, sits down with the CEO of Aurora, Ant Molloy. Aurora.io is a software and services organization who serves a wide variety of MSPs, telco resellers and IT resellers. Listen in as Mark and Ant discuss the innovative ways Aurora is able to quickly deploy and integrate devices in the cloud and on-premises to deliver ROI to its customers.

Cost-Efficient Ways to Run DynamoDB Tables

As we all know, the on-demand capacity mode of DynamoDB is great but can be cost-prohibitive in some cases (up to seven times more expensive than the Provisioned Capacity mode). The Provisioned mode, on the other hand, shifts to the development team the burden of predicting what level of capacity will be required by the application. And it’s not quite as straightforward to achieve the same level of scalability in the Provisioned mode as we enjoy in the On-demand one.