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How to rename an API Connection thru the Azure Portal

Starting building Logic Apps thru the Azure Portal is, without a doubt, the most intuitive and fast approach. It doesn’t require any additional tool or software, it doesn’t require a Visual Studio license, and almost all beginner tutorials or documentation use this approach. And finally, all types of users are familiar with the Azure Portal. But not everything is perfect, and one of the most difficult best practices to implement is a proper API Connection naming convention.

Announcing support for Graviton2-powered AWS Fargate deployments

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to deploy containerized applications on services like Amazon ECS without needing to provision or manage compute resources. Now, Datadog is proud to be a launch partner with Amazon for their support of AWS Fargate workloads running on Graviton2, Amazon’s proprietary ARM64 processor.

How AWS & xMatters Drive Monitoring and Observability Forward - xMatters Demo

Join Tiberiu Oprisiu, Solution Architect at AWS, Eric Maxwell, Solution Architect at xMatters, and Rutuja Rajwade, Partner Marketing Manager at xMatters, as they highlight and demo the benefits that come from pairing AWS with xMatters. Learn from Tiberiu which business imperatives drive observability, and what, why, and how AWS can do just this. And, stick around to see Eric dive deep into matters Flow Designer to see how these workflows can be set up with ease!

We're Thrilled To Share - Coralogix has Received AWS DevOps Competency

At Coralogix, we believe in giving companies the best of the best – that’s what we strive for with everything we do. With that, we are happy to share that Coralogix has received AWS DevOps Competency! Coralogix started working with AWS in 2017, and our partnership has grown immensely in the years since. So, what is our new AWS DevOps Competency status, and what does it mean for you?

Turbocharging AKS networking with Calico eBPF

A single Kubernetes cluster expends a small percentage of its total available assigned resources on delivering in-cluster networking. We don’t have to be satisfied with this, though—achieving the lowest possible overhead can provide significant cost savings and performance improvements if you are running network-intensive workloads.

Cloud-optimized Linux kernels - what makes Ubuntu the top OS across the clouds

Ubuntu is the platform of choice for deploying and running workloads on public clouds. No other operating system gives you better performance and consistency of experience across public clouds, including Amazon, Azure, Google, IBM and Oracle. There is a reason behind this exceptional experience. By design, Ubuntu images in public clouds include an optimized Linux kernel for each cloud, giving you the best performance and functionality across all instance types and services.

Is FinOps All Talk and No Walk?

I am a big proponent of cross-functional alignment, as I remnded our ELT at a recent off-site meeting. There’s a lot of buzz about FinOps bringing financial accountability to cloud spend by eliminating procurement siloes and implementing cross-functional best practices. As the CFO of a SaaS company, I fully support this practice. In fact, Virtana recently made some changes to our cloud infrastructure as part of our own evolution.