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Monitor Amazon Bedrock with Datadog

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers foundation models (FMs) built by leading AI companies, such as AI21 labs, Meta, and Amazon along with other tools for building generative AI applications. After enabling access to validation and training data stored in Amazon S3, customers can fine-tune their FMs to invoke tasks such as text generation, content creation, and chatbot Q&A—without provisioning or managing any infrastructure.

Visualize AWS Step Functions with the State Machine Map

AWS Step Functions allows you to coordinate activity from hundreds of services—including AWS Lambda, Amazon EKS, and Amazon API Gateway—to build and orchestrate serverless workflows. With Step Functions, you organize work into workflows known as state machines, in which each state defines a task or decision and specifies the next state in the workflow.

Streamlined Subnet Imports and Collaborative Support Teams

Discover LightMesh’s latest IP address management upgrades, featuring streamlined subnet imports and collaborative Support Teams, transforming network efficiency. Exciting news from LightMesh! We’ve enhanced our IP address management (IPAM) solution, offering powerful upgrades for efficient network management.

Landing safely with Azure Integration Services - Dan Toomey

In this session titled "Landing safely with Azure Integration Services", Dan Toomey dives deep into optimizing cloud architecture frameworks, emphasizing the role of Azure Landing Zones. With the advent of the Azure Integration Services landing zone, he illuminates six vital design areas and their best practices. From robust identity and access management to efficient platform automation and DevOps strategies, Dan guides through the labyrinth of Azure's integration capabilities.

New AWS Policy Update: No Resale of Discounted Reserved Instances Starting January 15, 2024

Upcoming specific new AWS regulations will significantly impact how businesses handle their AWS operations. Starting from January 15, 2024, AWS will no longer permit the resale of discounted Reserved Instances (RIs) bought from the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace. This update aligns with AWS’s service terms, particularly Section 5.5, which explicitly prohibits the resale of discounted RIs.

How to effectively monitor PowerShell Jobs running on VM or Azure?

Do you need help with the task of overseeing PowerShell jobs on your Azure or VM? In this video, Mike Stephenson discusses the problems IT operators face when dealing with complex PowerShell jobs on Azure, like run failures in PowerShell scripts. This video provides a solution that shifts support away from PowerShell experts, empowering support and business users to gain visibility over your PowerShell jobs on Azure or VM. This can help them easily handle low-value support tasks by shifting their reliance on PowerShell experts.

GraphQL at scale with Azure API Management - Toon Vanhoutte

On Day 3 of INTEGRATE2023, Toon Vanhoutte dives into the transformative capabilities of GraphQL in scale with Azure API Management. Highlighting GraphQL's efficiency over REST and its widespread adoption by tech giants, Toon also sheds light on its challenges, from design to security. The takeaway? While REST dominates, GraphQL is making significant strides. Discover the nuances of modern API management in this engaging session.

Cloud backup: improve your disaster recovery plans

Today the lowest cost media per terabyte for backups is still tape, even after factoring in the handling costs of manually loading and unloading tape libraries, and logistics surrounding off-site storage. However, while inexpensive, tapes are inflexible. And when used as an offline solution it can take many hours to retrieve them from offsite storage – not to mention the additional time required to load them into a tape library before a recovery can even start.

Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances-part 2

You probably know that it is important to apply security updates. You may not be as clear on the details of how to do that. We are going to explain best practices for applying Ubuntu updates to single instances and what the built-in unattended-upgrades tool does and does not do.