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It’s that time of the year! PagerDuty is coming back to sin city for AWS re: Invent 2022! The global conference brings organizations of all sizes and is set to explore themes of modernization, automation, and resiliency in the cloud. With current economic conditions, enterprises are looking to scale operations and optimize costs while delivering always-on, digital experiences to their customers. Automaton plays a key role in helping support operational and cost efficiency.

We’ve all been stuck in traffic congestion on the road at some point in our lives. Traffic congestion may happen when there’s too many cars on the road, when there’s an accident or a closed street. Network congestion isn’t too different from that - but instead of cars causing congestion, it’s network traffic. That’s why, in this article, we’re running you through how to detect network congestion with Network Monitoring tools.

The final 4 months of the year are an incredibly busy time for retailers, as holiday sales are in full swing from early October and continue all the way into the new year. That’s a whole lot of time for increased holiday web traffic to cause performance issues, and during the busiest sales period of the year - there’s no time to lose.

Keeping with our mission of helping customers gain radical levels of choice and control with their observability data, we’re excited to announce full support for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account Factory Customization solution within AWS Control Tower console. Customers can now use AWS Control Tower to define account blueprints that scale their multi-account provisioning in a streamlined manner.

Earlier this year, CircleCI added GitLab as the third version control system that we support, in addition to GitHub and Bitbucket. At CircleCI, it’s vital that we meet our users where they are, and many of our users are on GitLab. We were happy to make it possible for our users to build, test, and deploy via the GitLab platform.

AWS Lambda enables engineering teams to build modern, scalable services without the need to provision underlying infrastructure resources. But monitoring Lambda functions requires visibility into performance indicators that differ from those of traditional architectures—and cold starts are a key example.

Find out how to monitor your Internet speed and quality and how well your ISP is performing.

Over the past few years, AWS has made incremental improvements to Lambda’s cold start performance. Nowadays, cold starts are much less an issue for most functions, unless you’re using Java or.Net Core.