Did the recent Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 support withdrawal from Microsoft affecting your business? More than support, are the licensing costs of Windows Server causing a huge dent in your budgets? In every board meeting, is your CTO saying that we need to containerize apps but you don’t know where and how to start? Do these questions sound familiar? Then I guess, it’s time to modernize your applications and jump on the automated containerization bandwagon.

Amazon Route 53 provides DNS and traffic routing services for cloud applications. You can use Route 53 to define multiple routing policies to send requests to a variety of endpoints, and configure DNS health checks to re-route traffic for failover, ensuring high availability of your services.

A flexible architecture is critical for dynamic containerized applications but managing different infrastructure configurations to support different applications is a heavy lift, requiring significant time and effort. The major cloud providers do offer customers core capabilities to deploy, manage and scale cloud infrastructure through AWS Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs), GCP Instance groups and Azure Scale sets.

We are delighted to have a guest blog from Microsoft MVP Martin Ehrnst! Read on for Martin's expert advice on how best to use Azure Lighthouse. Afterwards, head over here to see how you can get a true single pane of glass for all your Azure tenants using SquaredUp's new Lighthouse features. Azure Lighthouse provides a unified management experience across all your customers (and internal) Azure resources. Depending on your background, you might not know why this is so big.

Share A serverless application in its infancy looks and runs vastly different to one at scale. When there are more components to manage, the key to operational excellence is rooted in serverless best practices. Dashbird was created with the mission to help developers succeed with modern cloud environments, no matter their size. As experienced developers ourselves, we’ve faced and understand the challenges found in the functionality of at-scale serverless architecture.