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Cloud Management and Optimization: How to Do it Right

If you’re anything like our customers, you’re running the majority of your business on the cloud. After headcount, it’s not uncommon that your cloud bill is one of your highest business expenses. So, it’s important to make sure you are getting maximum returns on that investment. Done right, cloud computing offers major financial and operational benefits for companies.

Cloud Computing Optimization: 3 Strategies for High Growth Companies

Cloud computing optimization is a growing priority, as engineering becomes more accountable for justifying growing AWS spend. Companies that are rapidly growing can be particularly vulnerable to large fluctuations in cloud spending, which often seem to strike without rhyme or reason. Getting a handle on cloud cost is a critical first step toward cloud computing optimization, and can result in more efficient and effective systems across the board.

Serverless Computing for Dummies: AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP

Serverless computing is the latest, greatest thing in the technology world. Although the serverless concept has been around in one form or another for more than a decade, the introduction of serverless platforms from major cloud providers—starting with AWS Lambda in 2014—has brought serverless mainstream for the first time.

Achieve better AWS security with just 10 Cloudtrail logs alerts

CloudTrail logs track actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service, whether taken through the AWS console or API operations. In contrast to on-premise-infrastructure where something as important as network flow monitoring (Netflow logs) could take weeks or months to get off the ground, AWS has the ability to track flow logs with a few clicks at relatively low cost.

8 ways to speed up serverless development

There is a paradox at the heart of serverless. While it’s promoted as a very agile way to develop, a way to push your product as fast as possible to your customers, many development teams find it really difficult to work fast. Why does this happen and can we solve the issue? Let’s start with what makes serverless such a powerful paradigm. Serverless rests on three legs, each of which contributes to the agility that serverless is known for.

How to Monitor Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Networks

By Des Nnochiri Most enterprises now use two or more cloud service providers, and 35% use up to five monitoring tools to keep tabs on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. Even before organizations began shifting software and IT infrastructure to the cloud, a typical business would use four to ten tools just to monitor and troubleshoot their internal networks, according to analyst and consulting firm Enterprise Management Associates.

Increasing Performance - Webpals Success Story

Webpals group deals with performance-based digital marketing via a combination of a variety of the company’s own content driven websites and campaigns across all advertising channels. The company operates thousands of websites dedicated to 20 global markets, translated into over 15 languages. Using advanced technology, Webpals is able to automatically and optimally tailor an ad specifically to the needs of their customers, providing them with the best ratio of cost of advertising vs.

Blue Matador is Alert Automation for your Cloud Infrastructure

Every innovative team has two competing interests: rapid feature development and production stability. Blue Matador enables the best of both worlds, where time-strapped developers and DevOps teams only get notified of actionable events that threaten production. See how it works with this demo from our Founder and CEO Matthew Barlocker.