While trying to verify the claims made on a somewhat facile rundown of serverless security threats, I ran across Jeremy Daly’s excellent writeup of a single vulnerability type in serverless, itself inspired by a fantastic talk from Ory Segal on vulnerabilities in serverless apps. At first I wanted to describe how injection attacks can happen. But the fact is, the two resources I just shared serve as amazing documentation; Ory found examples of these vulnerabilities in active GitHub repos!

With the growing number of customers monitoring Azure in Datadog, we saw a great opportunity to help our users get faster visibility across their dynamic cloud environments. We’re happy to announce the release of new out-of-the-box dashboards for several Azure services.

In a previous post, we introduced a new integration with Microsoft Azure that makes it easy to ship Azure logs and metrics into Logz.io using a ready-made deployment template. Once in Logz.io, this data can be analyzed using the advanced analytics tools Logz.io has to offer — you can query the data, create visualizations and dashboards, and create alerts to get notified when something out of the ordinary occurs.

Modern cloud-based application and infrastructure monitoring is a moving target. And it is one that very much depends on how “native” your cloud application is. Here is a list of monitoring metrics capabilities you should look for that pertain to time series and events.

Today, I’m thrilled to announce our new free tier and pricing model for teams adopting modern serverless application development. I believe cloud-side development is the future and I want everyone to experience it at their own pace. We also now offer a model that can scale with either teams or workflows depending on how aggressively you decide to adopt cloud-side development.

Amazon MQ is a cloud-based, AWS-managed service for the popular Apache ActiveMQ message broker. It offers many advantages of being part of the AWS ecosystem as AWS automatically provisions and maintains infrastructure components from services including EC2 and EBS.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore serverless computing and how it can impact business operations.