Pepperdata’s ability to halve cloud costs at top enterprises may seem radical and new, but it’s absolutely not. Pepperdata has been hardened and battle tested since 2012, and our software is currently deployed on about 100,000 instances and nodes across some of the largest and most complex cloud deployments in the world. We’re an AWS ISV Accelerate partner focused on helping customers save money running Spark on Amazon EMR and Spark and microservices on Amazon EKS.

Hello, and welcome to this deep dive into one of the most underappreciated yet profoundly useful technologies in the Windows operating system—Volume Shadow Copy Service, commonly known as VSS. Have you ever been caught in a situation where your computer crashes, and you lose hours, days, or even weeks of work? It’s a heart-stopping moment that most of us have unfortunately experienced. But here’s where VSS comes into play.

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers a variety of database instances, which can be confusing at first. In this guide, we'll clarify what each RDS instance class, family, type, and size means in under 15 minutes. Let's start at the beginning.

In this blog post, you will discover how to create and use the Azure Service Bus connection string and learn some of its common associated issues.

Cloud computing is among the roles occupied by 9.1 million people in the tech industry. With “tech jobs” appearing in 255,000 Google monthly searches and tech job listings increasing by 25% in the U.S., which are the best cities to pursue a career in tech?

Azure Files is a cornerstone of modern cloud-based file sharing. As IT professionals dive deeper into its offerings, several challenges may arise. This guide provides an in-depth look into these challenges and elucidates their solutions.

In the past, managing IT infrastructure was a hard job. System administrators had to manually manage and configure all of the hardware and software that was needed for the applications to run. However, in recent years, things have changed dramatically. Trends like cloud computing revolutionized—and improved—the way organizations design, develop, and maintain their IT infrastructure.

Azure Service Bus is a cloud messaging service in Microsoft Azure that enables independent applications or services to communicate and exchange data through messages stored in queues or topics. This facilitates scalable and reliable communication in distributed systems. Service Bus contains two types of messaging entities queues, and topics. Queue: Queues transmit the messages in FIFO (First In, First Out) message delivery. Each message in a Queue can be received by only one active receiver.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 fully-featured services. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Lambda, and the AWS Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are some of the most critical services you should become familiar with. We’ve covered Amazon ECS vs. EKS vs. Fargate for managing and deploying containers before. In this guide, we'll explain how Amazon EC2, Lambda, ECS, and S3 compare and when you’ll want to use each.

Topic is a logical channel to which publishers send messages. Topics can be employed when several subscribers wish to subscribe to a specific set of messages. Messages sent to a topic are then forwarded to its associated Subscriptions.