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This video aims to showcase how developers can self-serve from an application to simplify the management of their AWS cloud resources. Rather than switching between tools or reaching out to another team for help, developers can take action directly from their observability tool, enabling faster resolution of application issues. We will demonstrate how to build a simple app that allows them to minimize disruptions by quickly taking action on their SQS queues in AWS, using insights provided by Datadog.

Unreliable software can have a painful impact on your customers and your business—something we’ve all seen and felt during high-profile outages. And while building on the cloud with AWS unlocks improved scaling and reliability capabilities, the complexity of modern distributed systems can potentially introduce outage-causing reliability risks. How can you be sure your systems are resilient to failure when they’re based on complex architecture, built by hundreds of teams, and are being updated almost constantly?

FinOps Certified practitioner Mike Stephenson talks with Obinna Nwokolo from Microsoft's Azure team about how businesses can save money using Azure's pricing options. They explain two main ways to save: Azure savings plans, which let customers commit to a certain spending level for flexibility and reservations, where customers reserve specific resources for a set time.