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The latest News and Information on Cloud monitoring, security and related technologies.

Support for AWS Application Load Balancer in the Honeycomb AWS Bundle

When we announced support for ingesting AWS Elastic Load Balancer access logs to Honeycomb, one of the first follow-up requests was for us to add support for AWS Application Load Balancer as well (which, alongside the Network Load Balancer, represents ELBv2). Given the list of features that ALB supports, it’s not difficult to see why. Who doesn’t want microservice-friendly path routing, native HTTP/2 support, tight integration with Amazon’s container-related services, and more?

Start AppStream Fleets Action

Today, we’re adding support for another AWS service to Skeddly: Amazon AppStream 2.0. Amazon AppStream is a service provided by Amazon Web Services that allows you to stream desktop applications through a web browser. Applications run on the Amazon servers, and you interact with the applications through your web browser. Amazon AppStream is often forgotten when it comes to cost-saving strategies.

Maximize your Azure Cloud ROI

LogicMonitor’s LM Cloud now offers support for monitoring Azure cloud spend (in addition to detailed AWS cloud spend). We’ve made it easier than ever to monitor cloud costs and control them. LM Cloud utilizes Azure’s Rate Card and Usage APIs to calculate Azure billing data and break it down in a meaningful way. By default, cost is monitored per subscription, per region, per service, and per operation, with the ability to enable monitoring per tag as well.

Azure CDN announced by Microsoft

On May 7th 2018 Microsoft released a preview version of their own CDN under the name "Azure CDN". It will join Akamai and Verizon(Edgecast) in Azure, their cloud platform. Interestingly its the only cloud provider that resells third-party CDN services. Their direct competitors Google and Amazon both offer CDN services exclusively built on their own infrastructure.

Up 0.6.0-IAM Policies, Git Versioning, Deployment History, and more

Just a quick post highlighting some of the changes made since Apex Up v0.5.0! If you’re unfamiliar with Up, it’s a command-line tool to help you deploy and manage near-infinitely scalable serverless web applications and APIs on AWS. You can deploy as many applications as you need, for the fraction of the price of other providers, with zero operational maintenance or manual scaling efforts.

PagerDuty Helps Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Customers Manage Incidents in Real Time and Migrate Confidently to the Cloud

SAN FRANCISCO – May 7, 2018 – Today at Microsoft Build 2018, PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, announced integration of PagerDuty’s real-time operations management platform with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services, Azure’s integrated suite of DevOps services.

How to Build a World Class Monitoring Strategy

IT leaders agree that performance monitoring is absolutely critical to their success, yet the design and execution of a monitoring strategy can often be an afterthought. During this webinar, LogicMonitor and AWS will present the key components of a world-class performance monitoring strategy, along with a framework to improve monitoring effectiveness.