Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If you use AWS cloud services to build and run your applications, you may be familiar with the AWS Well-Architected framework. This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Recently, 53 Dynatracers convened in a Zoom room for 5 action-packed hours to take on our first AWS GameDay challenge, an event we participated in to help our developers accelerate their AWS certification path. What is the value of AWS training and certification?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Digital transformation with AWS: Making it real with AIOps. When Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014, it ushered in a new era of serverless computing. In fact, Gartner predicts that cloud-native platforms will serve as the foundation for more than 95% of new digital initiatives by 2025 — up from less than 40% in 2021.

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Simform

JANUARY 2, 2023

Fine-tuning your cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure your overall bill keeps up to its limit. Read this blog to find out proven best practices for cloud cost optimization to help you cut down on the bill and save costs by eliminating unused resources.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

What does strong enterprise cloud security entail, and how can you achieve it? With the prevalence of cyber threats and regulatory pressures, safeguarding your enterprise’s cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. As more and more enterprises incorporate cloud-based systems, ensuring their security becomes a key concern.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

AWS published a new set of updates to its Well-Architected Framework, with changes across all six pillars of the framework. The performance efficiency and operational excellence pillars have been restructured and consolidated to reduce the number of best practices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2021

ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access By Curtis Castrapel , Patrick Sanders , and Hee Won Kim At AWS re:Invent 2020, we open sourced two new tools for managing multi-account AWS permissions and access. They are the one-stop-shop for cloud permissions and access. This happened for us at Netflix.

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Simform

JANUARY 2, 2021

Efficient configuration of AWS Lambda functions is highly critical when you're expecting an optimal performance of your serverless applications. This blog discusses potential serverless performance bottlenecks and ways through which you can finetune AWS Lambda performance.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More organizations than ever are undertaking cloud migration as digital transformation continues to gain momentum across every industry in every region. But what does it take to migrate your existing applications to the cloud? What is cloud migration? However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

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Simform

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In this blog post, you will find out some best practices by our experts for working with DynamoDB. Amazon DynamoDB is one of the fastest-growing database services today. However, it is a NoSQL database that requires data modeling quite different from SQL databases. It also talks about when and when not to use DynamoDB.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions. According to Flexera , serverless functions are the number one technology evaluated by enterprises and one of the top five cloud technologies in use at enterprises. And serverless support is a core capability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Where organizations used to have a half dozen legacy applications running on premises, they now have hundreds of local and cloud-based applications pulling data from different sources simultaneously. In modern IT environments, however, creating these connections isn’t easy. This creates complexity.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 9, 2021

The goal of AWS Proton is simple: customers should be able to adopt, customize and evolve best practices and technologies for delivering their modern applications to the cloud, and not worry about how they roll this out – potentially to thousands of developers – across their organization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Finally, provisioning our infrastructure itself is also becoming an increasingly complex task, so our data teams contribute to tools for diagnosis and automation of our cloud capacity management.

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Dynatrace

MAY 16, 2019

Earlier this year, we provided the Dynatrace Autonomous Cloud Survey to over 100 organizations so that we could better understand what is holding companies back from taking the next steps in their cloud automation journey. These assessments helped us understand the need and effectiveness of automation in cloud pipelines.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Many organizations today rely on cloud-native applications for their scalability and agility, among other benefits. However, not all cloud strategies are the same. Unlike a traditional IT model, however, cloud providers own and manage these resources. Some organizations prefer a serverless approach. Reduced latency.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference, generative AI is a centerpiece. In this AWS re:Invent 2023 guide, we explore the role of generative AI in the issues organizations face as they move to the cloud: IT automation, cloud migration and digital transformation, application security, and more.

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Particular Software

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The NServiceBus.AwsLambda.Sqs preview package makes it easier than ever to host NServiceBus endpoints in Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Lambda is Amazon’s serverless technology for running your code in the cloud with zero administration. That is where our new AWS Lambda SQS package comes in.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 15, 2017

Amazon today announced a new program that will make it free for tens of thousands of Alexa developers to build and host most Alexa skills using Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, if developers exceed the AWS Free Tier limits, they may incur AWS usage fees each month. Apply Now > Build and Host Alexa Skills with AWS.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

These policies encompass a wide range of concerns, including security best practices, data protection measures, industry regulations, privacy laws, accessibility requirements, and internal organizational policies. Restricting access to specific AWS services based on defined IAM roles.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 28, 2015

An important way of engaging with AWS customers is through the AWS Global Summit Series. All AWS Summits feature a keynote address highlighting the latest announcements from AWS and customer testimonials, technical sessions led by AWS engineers, and hands-on technical training.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps.

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Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

This is even more cumbersome when working on bare metal, as it is more difficult to add space when using this kind of solution with respect to the cloud. When using cloud storage like EBS or similar, it is normally easy(er) to extend volumes, which gives us the luxury to plan the space to allocate for data with a good grade of relaxation.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. We do *many* of these "non-best-practices" at large scale at @bustle The "connections take time" one especially irks me. HTTP anyone?

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Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

Having worked with something like 70 large and small companies over the past decade, the business processes and best practices have been tested and work well. Amongst other things, HPC is becoming more cloud centric, and blending with both quantum computing, and AI/ML. My own consulting work is initially in two areas.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node. Best practice tip : Use PBM to time huge backup sets.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Example: Your Kubernetes deployment uses virtual machines that run inside dynamically provisioned virtual machine image files (best practice or not). Cloud provider/infrastructure layer. Additionally, problems can be caused by changes in the cloud infrastructure. Cloud platform layer. Possible solutions.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. AWS 5-pillars. Dynatrace and AWS. through our AWS integrations and monitoring support.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. I got Paul Strong involved in the EGA before I left Sun, the two competing bodies eventually merged, and Grid and Web Services evolved into Cloud Computing.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

It simplifies the job by managing multiple browser environments, allowing you to use the cloud infrastructure for running parallel browser sessions on multiple platforms and devices. All of these are available on the cloud and can be accessible on the go. You can also set the screen resolutions. Integrate into the CI/CD Pipeline.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. How are your users adopting and responding to your service?

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive operation, and may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your tables?

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better. Visiting future customers is equally exiting as you get a change to understand their current architecture, if it is a migration, and how they plan to exploit cloud services in their new setup.

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