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IaaS Resilience, which cloud platform is better? Azure or AWS?

Now this blog post is only going to cover the two largest cloud providers, Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS and only focusing on Infrastructure as a Service (Azure VMs for Azure, and EC2 for AWS) offerings they both provide, but with a bit of a deep dive in to the way they both provide resilience.

AWS Cost Optimization: Top 5 AWS Cloud Cost Mistakes

What if we told you that most organizations are making simple AWS cost optimization mistakes that lead to surprising monthly cloud bills and unnecessary overspend? As an engineer, you’d probably be relieved to know that many of your organization’s AWS spending spikes are within your team’s control, given access to the right data.

The Quest to Eradicate Lingering VPCs

Cost is a big reason many dev teams are transitioning to serverless. However, there are still some ways costs can creep up on you in serverless apps. The biggest culprit I’ve found in my own experience is the VPC resource. Because adding a VPC to a serverless stack is ridiculously easy in Stackery, I’ve sometimes gotten carried away. I’d deploy a stack with a VPC for testing, then quickly forget about it.

Authentication and Authorization for multiple Kubernetes clusters with Rancher

A Kubernetes cluster is a collection of resources running across multiple nodes. Managing these resources also entails granting and controlling users' access to them. Different teams could be running their applications on the same cluster. Configuring RBAC is essential when it comes to such multi-tenant setups. Grouping resources into namespaces and giving certain teams access to them is a good start. Rancher leverages this to more effectively group the cluster's resources into larger subsets called projects.

Serverless Summer School (SSS) Week Four: Intro to SES with Serverless

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-based email sending service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails. This introductory course will teach you the basics of setting up a serverless SES while sharpening the skills you learned in the Wild Rydes workshop.

Controlling the Chaos @Gartner Catalyst, San Diego 2019

Gartner Catalyst Conference 2019 is consistently a great venue for learning, sharing, and connecting. OpsRamp was a silver sponsor at this year’s event and our seven-member contingent had a wonderful time meeting with industry thought leaders, demoing OpsRamp to senior IT executives, and having fun in the streets of San Diego. In this post, I will summarize the most interesting themes that stood out from the conference keynotes and sessions, as well as other key takeaways from the week.

The Rise of the Hybrid Cloud

Organizations of all sizes—but, in particular, the larger ones—view hybrid cloud infrastructures as the new normal. The Rightscale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera (registration required) surveyed close to 800 business, IT, and development professionals around the globe. They worked for both large and small organizations across a wide range of verticals.