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AWS status: The complete guide to monitoring status on the web's largest cloud provider

If you’re hosting on AWS, you can expect some pretty excellent reliability and availability. If your service isn’t responding, it’s likely an issue with your own code. On the other hand, system outages do happen. They’re usually pretty minor. Sometimes they're not.

Data Snapshot: How Meltdown & Spectre flaws are affecting businesses

In recent years, revelations of security holes in widely used IT hardware and software have put IT pros on edge. A few times a year, a huge cybersecurity announcement introduces chaos into the IT world, forcing network and systems administrators to scramble to secure their environments and deal with the fallout.

Upgrade AWS Elastic Beanstalk from PHP7.0 to PHP7.1

The AWS Elastic Beanstalk Console currently allows you to change between minor platform versions (e.g. from 2017.09 v2.6.1 running PHP 7.0 to 2017.09 v2.6.2 running PHP 7.0), but doesn’t support changes between major versions (e.g. from 2017.09 v2.6.2 running PHP 7.0 to 2017.09 v2.6.2 running PHP 7.1).

Keep an eye on your IT infrastructure in real time with AlarmsOne's Live Feed

At ManageEngine, we strive to make our products more effective every day so you can manage your IT infrastructure with ease. AlarmsOne already comes fully stocked with all the features you need to monitor and manage all your IT alerts, but we didn’t think that was enough. With the new Live Feed in AlarmsOne, you now get up-to-date information on all the entities you monitor, reducing the time it takes to react to incidents.

Observe best practices in AWS with our Guidance Report.

Introducing Site24x7's Guidance Report for AWS, your very own personal cloud consultant to help you get the most out of your AWS investment. So, what does this new Guidance Report offer? Well, it helps you follow certain industry best practices related to AWS. How? By checking your AWS account and resources against a list of curated best practice recommendations.

How We Boosted Page Speed By 58% ...and how you can too!

Over the past couple of weeks we've been optimising the Downtime Monkey website to reduce page load time. We've had some excellent results: in the best case scenario we cut page load time by 58% and even in the worst case, the page load was still 9% faster. All of the changes that were made are straightforward and we've provided in-depth details of the optimisations so that you can apply them to your own website.

Mattermost 4.6: Faster channels, enhanced 508 compliance

Happy New Year! We just shipped our January 2018 update and there’s a lot to be excited about. Mattermost 4.6 includes several web app performance improvements, including channels that switch faster than ever before. Plus faster loading of images, thanks to higher compression, and less memory used to manage channels, thanks to optimizations.