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Revamping Azure Storage: A Look at the 2023 Updates

As we continue to journey through 2023, one of the highlights in the tech world has been the evolution of Azure Storage, Microsoft’s cloud storage solution. Azure Storage, known for its robustness and adaptability, has rolled out several exciting updates this year, each of them designed to enhance user experience, improve security, and provide more flexibility and control over data management.

Crash Course on Building and Monitoring AWS CDK Apps

In this webinar, learn how to use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to build a complex microservice-based application and implement distributed tracing to monitor it. You'll be able to follow along with Thorsten Höeger, Cloud Automation Evangelist, and AWS CDK expert Michele Mancioppi, as they live-code an application that uses AWS Lambda with Node.js, and Amazon ECS with Java. Once built, you'll learn how you can apply distributed tracing to any AWS CDK-based application, in just a single line of code.

Snowflake Review: Why CloudZero Went With Snowflake

Every day, CloudZero helps SaaS companies understand their cloud environments and take consistent steps forward on the journey to cloud cost maturity. We discuss this a lot on our blog. What we talk about far less frequently is our own journey. One of the reasons CloudZero can help other businesses grow, change, and adapt is because we know what it’s like to shift strategies and try new things that are a little bit scary or unknown.

Everything You Need to Know About Google Cloud Logs

As the affordable choice for cloud computing, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is catching up to its competitors, like AWS and Microsoft Azure. As a business, you need the speed and scalability that the cloud provides, but you want to limit your costs to ensure you hit revenue targets. With GCP, you found a digital services business partner to help you meet your business objectives, a technology that gives you the service availability you want at the speed you need.

Azure Files Geo-Redundancy:

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, data redundancy is no longer just an option but a must-have feature for any business looking to fortify its data storage and accessibility. One of the most recent additions to the world of data redundancy is Azure Files’ Geo-Redundancy feature, a 2023 release that’s set to take the world of cloud storage by storm.

Unleash the power of Elastic and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to enhance observability and data analytics

As more organizations leverage the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform and services to drive operational efficiency and bring products to market, managing logs becomes a critical component of maintaining visibility and safeguarding multi-account AWS environments. Traditionally, logs are stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and then shipped to an external monitoring and analysis solution for further processing.

Understand your Azure Active Directory Sign-Ins with KQL

When Azure AD is configured to record Sign-In activity, Kusto KQL can be used to gain valuable insights. This blog walks through common needs and shows how to visualize them in SquaredUp. Ruben Zimmermann is an Infrastructure Architect at a large manufacturing company who likes Azure, KQL, PowerShell and, still, SCOM.