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How to make your services zone redundant

In January of 2020, an entire availability zone (AZ) in AWS’ Sydney region suddenly went dark. Multiple facilities lost power, preventing customers from accessing EC2 instances and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes. Customers who didn’t have backup infrastructure in another zone had to wait nearly 8 hours before service was restored, and even then, some EBS volumes couldn’t be recovered. Major cloud provider outages are rare, but they happen nonetheless.

Migrating to the Cloud at Scale with Fidelity

At swampUP 2023, JFrog’s annual user conference, Gerard McMahon, Head of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tools and Platforms at Fidelity Investments, shared Fidelity’s cloud migration story and how it supports the overall company philosophy. He explored the company’s focus on ensuring employee satisfaction while delivering great software and value to customers.

Service mesh and ingress controllers: Bringing the outside world in

The first problem that any cloud-native application has to solve is how to communicate with the world outside the cluster. This is “the ingress problem”, and while service meshes don't have to solve it directly, it is absolutely a major part of successfully getting your application working with one! Join us for a whirlwind tour of how service meshes interact with ingress controllers using the Linkerd service mesh with Emissary-ingress, NGINX, and Envoy Gateway.

Leverage Past Incidents for Faster Incident Resolution with Squadcast

Squadcast's Incident Management platform helps you learn from the past to resolve future incidents faster. In this video, we'll show you how to use Squadcast's Past Incidents feature to: 🔑Gain historical context for new incidents🔑See how similar incidents were resolved in the past🔑Identify patterns and trends in past incident activity By leveraging past incidents, you can improve your incident response times and reduce the impact of incidents on your business.

Navigating Software Selection: Unleashing the Power of Scenario Planning and Node Analysis

Node Analysis and Scenario Planning are invaluable tools for strategic software selection. They empower organizations to anticipate and prepare for a multitude of future scenarios and their potential impacts. When it comes to selecting a software vendor, these approaches enable organizations to comprehensively assess a wide range of possible futures and evaluate the performance of each software vendor's solution under various conditions.

What Is AWS Graviton? Here's When To Use It

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its new Arm-based processors, some circles believed it was a game-changer for the public cloud markets. To begin with, it was the first time Arm architecture would roll out for enterprise-grade utility, and at a colossal scale. Arm processors had only run on smaller, less demanding devices such as iPhones. So why adopt it for much more demanding workloads in cloud services?

Azure Cost Reporting to boost cloud resilience and reduce costs

Managing costs within your Azure datacenter is a crucial aspect of ensuring efficiency and optimizing resources. The Azure portal has Azure Cost Management Reports embedded, offering a detailed lens into your cloud spending. In this article, we’ll explore the ins and outs of these reports, their key metrics, best practices, and how to generate and interpret cost reports.