Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers several native tools for reporting and cost optimization. Among them is AWS Budgets, a service that enables users to set spending and usage limits on their AWS resources. It also schedules reports with regular updates on actual or forecasted costs, ensuring users are informed of usage. However, AWS Budgets is a budgeting tool and has limitations when it comes to comprehensive AWS cost control.

No matter how well businesses run, team leads, or project managers are always searching for ways to run business operations faster and more efficiently. Even when projects and management plan effectively, processes can still become stuck, face delays, or data becomes disorganized.

For over a decade, we’ve worked closely with AWS to help our joint customers ensure the health and security of their mission-critical applications. That’s why we’re so excited to have recently renewed our Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS and to announce five new AWS competencies across multiple industries.

Monitoring application health is a lot like monitoring your personal health. Vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, and overall well-being can spot problems before they escalate, helping us maintain good health. Similarly, application health requires constant monitoring of performance indicators like CPU usage, memory consumption, and application response times.

Cloud engineers have become a vital part of many organizations – orchestrating cloud services to create seamless digital experiences for clients. With responsibilities spanning across cloud security to troubleshooting incidents, cloud engineers are key to keeping modern businesses running efficiently. And as the need for cloud expertise continues to rise, so do opportunities in the field.

Recently we released a new feature for Business Activity Monitoring and one of our customers was able to get almost immediate value from this feature with an integration use case they were struggling to support. The solution implemented involves the source data coming from various operational technology systems that push data to an event hub.

Amazon cloud storage offers a scalable and secure way to keep and access data across multiple devices. As to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), it provides automated backups, software patching, and scaling without the need for manual intervention. In this guide, we are going to walk you through the process of transferring a database from a local machine or a traditional server to AWS with the help of the command line as well as with a convenient GUI – dbForge Studio for MySQL.