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Amazon S3 Cost Optimization Best Practices

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an essential cornerstone of AWS and among its most popular service offerings. S3 allows tenants to store, secure, and retrieve data from S3 buckets on demand. It is widely used for its high availability, scalability, and performance. It supports six storage classes and several use cases, including website hosting, backups, application data storage, and data lake storage. There are two primary components of Amazon S3: Buckets and Objects.

Five Key Capabilities You Need to Deliver Modern Managed Services

Enterprises use managed service providers (MSPs) to handle their distributed IT environments in a flexible, responsive, and cost-effective manner. Service providers that help enterprises embrace digital business models and deliver outstanding customer experiences will see faster revenue growth and better profitability.

Broadcom Software Announces Designated Weekend Upgrade Program for DX Unified Infrastructure Management 20.4

Broadcom Software is dedicated to ensuring you are on the latest software releases with the most critical fixes, security enhancements, and integrations. That’s why Broadcom Support has developed a DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) Designated Weekend Upgrade Program to assist you with a successful upgrade to DX UIM 20.4.

5 hacks to maximise your website's potential

There are reportedly over 1.7 billion websites, making it almost impossible for yours to stand out unless your name is Jeff Bezos and you started a little-known company called Amazon. That’s why, when our customers asked us what we would suggest to help their website perform better, we thought we’d whip together 8 quick and easy hacks that can easily be implemented but make a big difference.

Top 5 challenges in Ethernet monitoring and how to simplify them with OpManager

An Ethernet connection helps businesses with critical communication, and even a slight interruption can irritate users or result in costly downtime. On top of this, the larger the network, the more complex the Ethernet network becomes.

Elevate AWS threat detection with Stratus Red Team

A core challenge for threat detection engineering is reproducing common attacker behavior. Several open source and commercial projects exist for traditional endpoint and on-premise security, but there is a clear need for a cloud-native tool built with cloud providers and infrastructure in mind. To meet this growing demand, we’re happy to announce Stratus Red Team, an open source project created to emulate common attack techniques directly in your cloud environment.

Monitor CDN performance within your Synthetic tests

Content delivery networks (CDNs) reduce latency by delivering cached data (e.g., JavaScript files, stylesheets, images, and videos) from a network of linked proxy servers to end users around the globe. CDNs help reduce the load on your origin servers and shorten the distance that data needs to travel, thus improving the end-user experience.

Be in charge of your cloud costs with these 2021 releases: CloudSpend recap

The widespread adoption of digital transformation triggered by the global health crisis has created a boom. For some businesses, the transition was smooth, but for others, it was an aggressive shift. Out of all the challenges posed by the transition to digital environments, messy cloud cost management and rocketing cloud bills are the most taxing. According to Gartner, through 2024, 60% of infrastructure and operations leaders will bear cloud costs that hurt their on-premises budgets.

Struggling with blurry website imagery? You're not alone. Here's how to optimize for better image clarity across different browsers.

When it comes to your website, visual content plays a huge role. In a world where it takes our brains only 13 milliseconds to process an image – visuals help narrate your brand story in a quick and visually captivating way. This ability to process images so quickly places even more importance on the need for crisp high-quality content. A website tainted with fuzzy and blurry images can affect engagement and lead to an overall negative experience for visitors.

Improvements Made to AppSignal for Node.js in 2022

During the last few months, we've been working hard on improving our Node.js integration. We've released loads of quality fixes and improvements to our diagnose command, configuration, and general package structure. Today, we'd like to highlight some of the enhancements and fixes that we've recently released.