Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

What does it take to secure your cloud assets effectively? Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate. This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Comparing Cloud Instance Costs. So, which cloud provider provides the most cost-effective solution for database hosting? Replication Strategy. EC2 instances.

Azure 344

Azure AWS Database Latency 344

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms. But while moving workloads to the cloud brings overall carbon emissions down, the cloud computing carbon footprint itself is growing. Certainly, this is true for us.

Energy 239

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 239

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are a wealth of options on how you can approach storage configuration in Percona Operator for PostgreSQL , and in this blog post, we review various storage strategies — from basics to more sophisticated use cases. For example, you can choose the public cloud storage type – gp3, io2, etc, or set file system.

Storage 99

Storage Strategy Cloud Azure 99

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Cloud application security is becoming more of a critical issue as cloud-based applications gain popularity. The cloud allows a modular approach to building applications, enabling development and operations teams to create and deploy feature-rich apps very quickly. What is cloud application security?

Cloud 182

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 182

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.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? Where does Lambda fit in the AWS ecosystem?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy. This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. You have to choose your hosting model, a cloud provider, and then your primary and standby regions to deploy to. What is ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud Plan? Here are the databases and cloud providers supported through each model: Supported Databases.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

As more organizations invest in a multicloud strategy, improving cloud operations and observability for increased resilience becomes critical to keep up with the accelerating pace of digital transformation. American Family turned to observability for cloud operations. Step 1: Automate AWS metrics ingestion with Dynatrace.

Cloud 173

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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.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

While not a new concept, the term “cloud” creates a lot of confusion because it means different things to different audiences. I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. Cloud effectively solves each of these major issues.

Cloud 202

Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 202

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2023

Never short of outstanding achievements, the awards span from Cloud Innovator of the Year to Special Recognition for Excellence. An integral and celebrated part of the event agenda is the Dynatrace Partner Awards, allowing us to recognize our partner organizations and individuals for their contributions and success over the last year.

Innovation 218

Innovation Cloud AWS DevOps 218

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Without further ado, here are the key results: • At first glance, cloud usage seems overwhelming. More than half of respondents use multiple cloud services. •

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Attack tactics describe why an attacker performs an action, for example, to get that first foothold into your network. Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events.

Analytics 201

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 201

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

But there are other related components and processes (for example, cloud provider infrastructure) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes. Dynatrace AWS monitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage. OneAgent and its Operator .

Analytics 246

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 246

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster. The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. They also ensure that backup strategies adhere to industry and legal compliance requirements.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them.

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AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 132

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

ESG embodies a set of criteria that guides an organization’s strategy, measures the organization’s impact, and informs potential investors across these three pillars. Some interesting facts: Moving a workload to the cloud can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 96%. Average cloud server idle time exceeds 70%.

Energy 188

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 188

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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Serverless Infrastructure Lambda Latency 169

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide.

AWS 166

AWS IoT Internet Internet 166

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

But there are other related components and processes ( for example, cloud provider infrastructure ) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes. Dynatrace AWS m onitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage.

Analytics 135

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 135

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps and cloud-based computing have existed in our life for some time now. Today, we are here to talk about the successful amalgamation of DevOps and cloud-based technologies that is amazing in itself. Why Opt For Cloud-Based Solutions and DevOps? Cloud-based solutions are extremely fast when combined with DevOps.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

Today we’re happy to announce, that with the release of Dynatrace version 1.198 (SaaS and Managed), auto-adaptive baseline extends beyond application performance (APM) metrics to include thousands of infrastructure and cloud metrics as well. Cloud platform metrics (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, etc.). Custom log metrics.

Metrics 216

Metrics Innovation Strategy Monitoring 216

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. Cloud First. The US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

We are rapidly entering into an era where massive computing power, digital storage and global network connections can be deployed by anyone as quickly and easily as turning on the lights. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

Cloud 123

Cloud Innovation AWS Government 123

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

For instance, Sentinel policies can enforce rules such as "All AWS S3 buckets must have server-side encryption enabled" or "Only specific IAM roles can access certain resources." Restricting access to specific AWS services based on defined IAM roles. Checkov: Checkov is a static code analysis tool.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Why cloud-native applications make APM challenging. What does APM stand for?

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions. Disk Caching? — ?

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

by Tomasz Bak and Fabio Kung Introduction Titus is the Netflix cloud container runtime that runs and manages containers at scale. Implementation details We solved the cache synchronization problem (as stated above) with a combination of two strategies: Titus Gateway <-> Titus Job Coordinator synchronization protocol over the wire.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. As businesses grow and demand fluctuates, infrastructure needs to adapt.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. We use Keystone as it is easy to use, reliable, scalable, and provides aggregation of facts from different cloud regions into a single AWS region.

Storage 187

Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2019

Thanks to projects such as OpenTelemetry , which promotes the standardization of data collection, and W3C trace-context , built-in telemetry will soon become a must-have feature of cloud-native software. Here’s how Dynatrace uses the three pillars of observability in context for automatic problem detection and root-cause analysis.

Metrics 189

Metrics Monitoring Azure Code 189

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. For Physalia, and for AWS more generally, the guiding principle is minimise the blast radius. NSDI’20.

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Database AWS Network Design 106