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A Roadmap To AWS Savings Plans Vs. Reserved Instances

Jun 10, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
A decade after launching Reserved Instances (RIs), Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans as a more flexible alternative to RIs. AWS Savings Plans are not meant to replace Reserved Instances; they are complementary. SPs and RIs have some significant differences that make each better suited to specific uses. For example, while Savings Plans apply to both EC2 and Fargate instances, RIs only apply to EC2 instances. Let’s break down AWS Savings Plans vs.
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Azure Budget Planning: Simplify Cost Management and Forecasting

Jun 10, 2025 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
The video introduces the new Turbo 360 feature designed to simplify Azure budget planning for teams. It highlights how team managers can easily manage and project costs, input monthly records, and adjust budgets based on upcoming projects, all while minimizing reliance on technical resources. The focus is on enhancing productivity and making financial management more accessible.
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cloudsmith

OWASP CI/CD Part 6: Insufficient Credential Hygiene

Jun 10, 2025 By Nigel Douglas In Cloudsmith
This post, part six of our OWASP CI/CD Top 10 series, looks at some of the common risks associated with Insufficient Credential Hygiene. By better understanding the flaws that affect credential hygiene, we can better understand how even the most sophisticated pipelines were compromised.
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Apache Spark security: start with a solid foundation

Jun 10, 2025 By Giulia Lanzafame In Canonical
Everyone agrees security matters – yet when it comes to big data analytics with Apache Spark, it’s not just another checkbox. Spark’s open source Java architecture introduces special security concerns that, if neglected, can quietly reveal sensitive information and interrupt vital functions.
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last9

How to Monitor Kafka Producer Metrics

Jun 10, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Your Kafka producer pushed a million messages yesterday. Nice. But can you tell if they all made it? Or why did latency spike at 2 PM? Producer metrics help you determine that. They expose how long messages take to send, whether messages are getting stuck, and whether retries are piling up. Let’s go over which ones help while debugging and how to monitor them.
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firehydrant

Opsgenie Is Shutting Down: Why FireHydrant Is the Natural Evolution

Jun 10, 2025 By Jessica Abelson In FireHydrant
Opsgenie set a high bar. For years, it helped teams respond faster and stay on top of incidents with reliable alerting and on-call management. At FireHydrant, we’ve always admired how Opsgenie modeled incident data and structured its workflows — it was one of the best in the game. But as Atlassian sunsets Opsgenie and teams face the pressure to migrate, there’s a real decision to make: move into Jira Service Management, or find a new solution that fits your team’s needs and scale.
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DevEx Unpacked 001 - Scaling Secure Software with Alison Sickelka

Jun 10, 2025 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
Episode 001: In this inaugural episode of DevEx Unpacked, host Alan Carson sits down with Alison Sickelka, VP of Product at Cloudsmith, for a deep dive into the evolution of software supply chain security. Alison shares her journey from journalism to product leadership, the unique talent landscape in Belfast, and how Cloudsmith is pioneering secure artifact management. Learn how Cloudsmith's Enterprise Policy Management is shaping compliance strategies, why SBOMs are crucial, and where AI fits in a secure DevOps future.
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How Console Connect enhances AWS Direct Connect for global cloud connectivity

Jun 9, 2025 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
In today’s always-on, cloud-first world, it’s no surprise that enterprises are demanding greater reliability, stronger security, and faster performance from their network infrastructure. AWS meets these needs with AWS Direct Connect, offering a dedicated, private connection to AWS that bypasses the public internet.
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cloudzero

How Successful Teams Master Cloud Resource Management

Jun 9, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Cloud computing promised speed, scale, and freedom. And it delivered. Engineers can deploy in seconds. Teams can scale globally overnight. But somewhere between all that freedom and speed, control got blurry. Resources piled up. Budgets ballooned. And suddenly, no one could answer the simple question: What are we paying for and why? Cloud resource management is how we reclaim that control, without slowing down.
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