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Anodot Tutorial: Monitoring AWS Usage with Machine Learning

A 3-minute guide to help you start monitoring your AWS usage on Anodot's machine learning platform. Once it's up and running, Anodot will continuously monitor your AWS usage and deliver real-time alerts when there's an anomalous spike or drop. This powerful capability enables you to act quickly, far before costs get out of hand.

Best Practices in Handling the Application Insights Custom Events

Application Insights is used to monitor your live applications. It automatically detects performance anomalies. It also helps you to diagnose issues with the help of powerful analytics tools and to understand what users do with your app. The aim of development team is to help you understand how your app is performing and how it is being used by the customers.

Instant scale up for even the most dynamic ECS clusters

One of the key features of Ocean by Spot is a “headroom” feature, the ability to maintain a dynamic buffer of spare capacity for immediate scale-up. Ocean continuously predicts which workloads are most likely to require scale-up and adjusts headroom in line with this prediction to enable immediate scheduling of new tasks, without waiting for infrastructure provisioning. This shortens the time to execution for these workloads and dramatically speeds up the scale-up process.

Byte Down Too: Build Cost Effective Infrastructure Like Netflix

Think of orgs with lots of data and it’s impossible to not think of Netflix. In a new Netflix Technology Blog, titled "Byte Down: Making Netflix’s Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective", their Platform Data Science & Engineering team describe their data infrastructure "which is composed of dozens of data platforms, hundreds of data producers and consumers, and petabytes of data.” At this scale, cost-effectiveness is a critical matter of success and failure.

An effective hybrid cloud migration project can yield 145% ROI in three years, global study reveals

San Jose, CA, July 14, 2020 – Organizations that embrace hybrid cloud migration projects can yield a 145% return on investment within three years, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Virtana has revealed. The study, which reviewed customer projects completed in the last three years, found that a composite organization achieved benefits of $2 million by adopting planning and optimization platforms, such as as Virtana’s CloudWisdom and VirtualWisdom.

Loki tutorial: How to set up Promtail on AWS EC2 to find and analyze your logs

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) is one of the most popular ways to run applications in the cloud, but finding logs for a given instance is a common struggle. That’s where Loki can help. With Loki aggregation, you can group all your logs from all your virtual machines in one place, and with its search capabilities, you can quickly find and analyze them. It’s a great way to gain visibility in your cloud deployment.