When it comes to September’s cloud cost news, cloud-based organizations will have to take a little bit of sour news along with the sweet: Cloud costs continue to rise with inflation, and IBM cloud service users will soon see price hikes, but AWS and Azure have both recently released updates that may help you keep your costs under control. Read on to see how these changes may affect your company in the coming months.

Microsoft Office 365, often simply referred to as Office 365, represents a significant shift in the way we approach work in a digital environment. It’s a subscription service that ensures you always have the most up-to-date modern productivity tools from Microsoft. This suite of services and applications goes beyond the traditional software suite to offer a wide range of tools and solutions to modern-day challenges faced by organizations and individuals alike.

Having spent the best part of the last 15 years working in cloud cloud consulting I like to think I know a little bit about public cloud and its challenges. One thing that comes up time and time again in conversation with those that we have helped move to cloud is the lack of control over usage, generally a response to continuously rising bills with no clear indication as to why.

In today’s hyper-connected digital landscape, businesses rely heavily on cloud computing to streamline operations, enhance scalability, and drive innovation. However, the seemingly limitless potential of the cloud comes at a steep price – one that goes far beyond financial considerations. Welcome to the world of data centres, the not-so-hidden environmental offenders of the corporate world.

Amazon CloudFront is a Content Network Delivery service (CDN). CDNs are primarily used to reduce latency. They do this by serving certain types of content (images, videos and static files) from servers that are geographically closest to any particular user. I.e. users in France will receive content from the server in Paris; users in Malaysia will receive content from the server in Kuala Lumpur.

Cloud computing and AI/machine learning (ML) are two powerful technologies that are even more impactful when used together. Cloud computing provides the infrastructure and resources needed to support AI/ML applications; while AI/ML enhances cloud computing by providing intelligent automation and decision-making capabilities.

CloudWatch can be a great start for monitoring your AWS environments, but it has some limitations in terms of granularity, customization, alerting, and integration with third-party tools. In this article, learn all the ways that Kentik can supercharge your AWS performance monitoring.

I recently recorded a Lightboard presentation on securing open source software dependencies in the public cloud. This blog summarises, and expands upon, some of the key elements from that presentation: I think about this topic through two lenses: software supply chains and updating software dependencies while maintaining stability.

Using Grafana Cloud to manage and monitor even your most sensitive data from your AWS services just got easier. If your organization’s workloads are hosted in AWS and you are using a Grafana Cloud instance that’s also hosted in AWS, you can now use AWS PrivateLink to establish a secure connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) network and Grafana Cloud for all your data.

This is the third blog in our series on Kafka, where we continue to explore the nuances of deploying Kafka for scale. In our previous blogs, Essential Metrics for Kafka Performance Monitoring and Auto-Instrumenting OpenTelemetry for Kafka, we laid the foundation for understanding Kafka’s performance and monitoring aspects. Now, as we explore further into the Kafka ecosystem, we’re here to tackle the common challenges that can arise during deployment and scaling.