EC2 instances come with a spider web of charges — when you take a look at your bill, you’ll see there are hundreds of unique line items connected to your usage. In addition to the instance, you’re also billed for storage, data transfer, and networking associated with that instance. It’s important to fully understand those charges so you can find ways to optimize your costs.

So you’ve just created a new project and want to start distributing it, but you still don’t know how to manage its deployment. Then there’s the monitoring, network request, and a lot of other problems related to modern apps. At the same time, you want to avoid working directly with AWS due to its intricacy.

Prometheus, the de facto standard for Kubernetes monitoring, works well for many basic deployments, but managing Prometheus infrastructure can become challenging at scale. As Kubernetes deployments continue to play a bigger role in enterprise IT, scaling Prometheus for a large number of metrics across a global footprint has become a pressing need for many organizations.

I’m sure most of us have heard this saying before, and if you are in the DevOps space, I’m sure this is a scenario that you deal with daily. Most of us started even before we even had all these nice terms, such as DevOps, SREs, DevSecOps, and so many others, when we were all Sys Admins.

Over the past decade, businesses have flocked to the public cloud, with the promise of faster innovation, improved scalability — and of course, cost savings. Yet for many companies, the reality of cloud migration has been a different story. CFOs are blindsided by high costs and uncontrolled spending. Meanwhile, engineering teams struggle to justify and explain their spend — often frustrated that finance doesn’t understand, even when spend is growing healthily along with the business.

Stanza is a robust log agent. GCP users can use Stanza for ingesting large volumes of log data. Before we dive into the configuration steps, here’s a matrix detailing the functional differences between all the common log agents used by GCP users. Stanza was built as a modernized version of FluentD, Fluentbit, and Logstash. GCP users now have the ability to install Stanza to their VMs/ GKE clusters to ingest logs and route them to GCP log explorer.

AWS S3 is a cloud storage service that saves data as an object associated with a key. Objects are like files and keys are like filenames. Objects are stored in a bucket. We will be auto-generating our object keys while uploading. In a free tier account, you get 5GB of free cloud storage with AWS S3. Note: This tutorial is made for AWS S3 but works as well with S3 compatible providers like Wasabi.com

A plethora of surveys has shown that there is significant growth in the digital data that enterprises generate every day and it is becoming difficult for traditional on-premise systems to cope up with the enormous amounts of data. Also, the old methods require huge capital and resources. Therefore, Cloud-based Data Warehouses are taking the place of traditional ones to collect, store and analyze data coming from multiple sources.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, or EKS, is a managed Kubernetes service. That means that Amazon Web Services (AWS) handles some of the deployment and management tasks for users. But the fact that EKS is a managed service doesn’t mean that AWS manages all administrative tasks. One key management task that isn’t fully covered as part of EKS is monitoring.