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AWS Transit Gateway is a service that makes it easy to connect multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), AWS accounts, AWS Regions, and on-premises networks together through a central hub. For AWS customers operating at global scale with many accounts and VPCs, AWS Transit Gateway greatly simplifies AWS networking architecture by eliminating the need to manage complex peering relationships and massive route tables.

If your organization is embracing cloud-native practices, then breaking systems into smaller components or services and moving those services to containers is an essential step in that journey. Containers allow you to take advantage of cloud-hosted distributed infrastructure, move and replicate services as required to ensure your application can meet demand, and take instances offline when they’re no longer needed to save costs.

Mature start-ups and scale-ups create wonderful and challenging environments for Engineers. As the product they’re creating matures and the brand becomes a successful one, the user base generally starts growing, and, for some companies, in places they might not expect it to grow. As that happens, new challenges arise for Engineers. One of these challenges is pretty straightforward to guess. Basically having a particular product available throughout different regions of the world.

As businesses grow and develop, so must the tools that help manage them. Application monitoring tools provide enterprises with a way to keep track of the health and performance of their applications and ensure that everything is running smoothly. Application monitoring tools have a wide range of capabilities and data that enterprises can use to help answer questions about the current state of an application.

Cloud spend is a significant line item in every company’s IT budget, and controlling it is especially important in today’s challenging economic climate. A steep decline in share prices, valuations, and a slowdown in venture capital funding have led CEOs to cut costs within their large line items, reduce their workforce, and reevaluate their unit economics — especially their margin per customer. The question is, how many organizations know their margin per customer?

When choosing between multiple software applications, users will always go with the fastest one (assuming they’re all equally reliable). As a software developer, once you have ensured your application's overall quality, robustness, and reliability, its acceptance and reputation among users depend primarily on how fast and responsive it is. Therefore, it is vital to equip your analysis toolkits with measures that speak of an application’s speed.

Today, we are excited to announce support for Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams. This support will enable our customers to ingest metrics from AWS CloudWatch in real time, increase metric and state fidelity and time to ingestion while decreasing MTTR, and support cloud metrics at scale without the need to customize or re-configure new AWS service metrics. In this blog, we dig deep into.