Amazon EC2 is the cornerstone for any Amazon-based cloud deployment. Enabling you to provision and scale compute resources with different memory, CPU, networking and storage capacity in multiple regions all around the world, EC2 is by far Amazon’s most popular and widely used service.

This is the third of a three-part series on how OpsRamp helps enterprise IT operations team manage the challenges of migrating to the cloud. Read part one here and part two here. Now that migration is complete, IT organizations will be responsible for monitoring and managing a mix of hybrid, multi-cloud resources across a distributed footprint. OpsRamp ensures comprehensive visibility, rapid remediation, and constant optimization for these dynamic, multi-cloud environments at scale.

For about a year, since we incorporated CloudHedge.io and during the 18 months of product building before that, we spoke with hundreds of prospects (both partners and clients included). Our team worked directly with clients and with partners, enabling them to try the product and later on-board them. While Partners are big global SI’s, customers range between SME to Fortune 100 companies.

With AWS Lambda, we get blue-green deployment out of the box. After we update our code, requests against our function would be routed to the new version. The platform would then automatically dispose of all containers running the old code to free up resources.

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing ( ELB ) allows you to create load balancers for your application without having to actually manage the servers that do the load balancing. However, since it’s a managed service, you have less visibility with traditional monitoring tools. As such, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring tools in AWS. In this post, we’ll explain how to use CloudWatch to monitor Elastic Load Balancing and what is important to watch.

As Microsoft Azure continues to be developed and more automation options become available; Azure Automation, Logic Apps, ARM (Azure Resource Manager) and Azure Function Apps to name a few, the question is quickly turning from ‘how do I automate with Azure?’ to ‘what automation type do I use in Azure?’. Across our next few blogs we will seek to delve into the options available and look to define how they stack up against Azure Automation.

Like any other creation in progress or in the making, serverless applications, need to be tested and monitored. How else would you know if what you’ve created is providing desired results? Before putting your “newborn child” out into the world, you must make sure that it’s ready for the world. Software or even hardware of any sort will first be tested before it goes to mass production, and the same goes for your serverless applications.

451 Research analyst, William Fellows, recently authored a Market Impact report titled, OpsRamp is breaking new ground for IT operations management. The report analyzes our latest platform features and innovations for hybrid cloud management use cases.