Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The recent outage on June 12 proved yet again that service disruptions are inevitable, it’s not a matter of if, but when? And the next question is: how ready are you when that disruption strikes? What sets successful leaders apart is how quickly they are able to recover. Digital businesses are more complex than ever. Teams are managing sprawling cloud environments, microservices architectures, and a dizzying array of third-party integrations.

Cloud-native tools promise speed, scalability, and resilience. The catch is you have to pick the right ones and use them well. Without the right foundation, they can mean more complexity, hidden costs, and a false sense of control. In this guide, we’ll help you avoid that trap. From infrastructure to observability and CI/CD tools, we’ll cover the solutions shaping modern cloud stacks.

Cloud Observability’s curated Application Monitoring dashboards improve troubleshooting with best practices from Google SREs.

It’s 2:47 AM and your Lambda functions are timing out. API response times are spiking. You’re flipping between the CloudWatch console, your APM tool, and your logs, trying to figure out what’s going wrong. CloudWatch has the metrics you need: CPU usage, memory pressure, and request rates — but connecting that data to what your app is doing takes time. The delay in stitching it all together slows down your incident response.

Tired of getting cloud storage full messages? Having your account blocked because you’ve reached your storage limit can be frustrating, especially if you don’t know why your space is being occupied. To help you out, this article breaks down the fastest and simplest ways to clear space on your cloud account, from removing hidden junk to optimizing your settings.

Everyone’s obsessed with speed right now. Ship fast. Stack features. Slap an LLM on it and call it v1. Amirite? But in the AI era, where cloud costs can spiral in a weekend, moving fast isn’t enough. The teams that track cloud unit costs from Day 1? They’re the ones who come out ahead. Most teams don’t start there though. They focus on building features and chasing traction, and the cloud bill just shows up like that subscription you forgot to cancel. Maybe someone glances at it.

If your team runs on AWS, getting new tools into your workflow isn’t just about functionality. It’s about how quickly you can procure, integrate, and see value. With Checkly now available on AWS Marketplace, monitoring doesn’t have to be an exception. This launch means Checkly fits into your procurement flow the same way it fits into your CI/CD: seamlessly. No vendor approval bottlenecks, no procurement delays, just faster access to the tools your developers already want to use.