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Use Datadog App Builder to peak, purge, or redrive AWS SQS.

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.

How to Optimize Your Cloud Infrastructure with Real-Time Monitoring

Is your cloud infrastructure turning into a money pit? Despite the promise of scalability and cost-effectiveness, many businesses need help with efficient resource utilization, sluggish performance, and spiraling expenses in their cloud environments. Applications grinding to a halt during peak business hours or receiving a monthly bill that makes your CFO break out in a cold sweat are not situations you want to be in.

How Generative AI Can Prevent Downtime with AI-Powered Observability

Generative AI (GenAI) is still in its infancy, but its impact is already being felt across industries. Over the past year, production applications leveraging GenAI have gone from proof-of-concept to delivering real-world value. According to the World Economic Forum, 75% of surveyed companies plan to adopt AI technologies by 2027. Leading cloud providers like AWS are making significant investments.

Top 24 Azure Cost Management Tools to reduce spending

Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, has become an essential part of modern businesses, offering a vast array of services and resources. However, effective cost management in Azure is crucial to avoid unexpected expenses and optimize spending. While Azure provides its native tools for cost management, several third-party solutions offer advanced features and capabilities to help you make the most of your Azure resources. This blog will explore the top 24 Azure cost management tools.

CloudWatch Metrics Your Organization Should Track

Metrics are crucial to maintaining efficiency, managing costs, and ensuring the health of cloud resources. Amazon CloudWatch can track over 100+ metrics by default across many AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, and more. In this guide, we’ll explain the different types of CloudWatch metrics and how to set them up. We’ll also help you understand how to manage and optimize expensive CloudWatch logs through a cost intelligence approach. But first…

The Most Common Airbnb Scams and How To Avoid Them

There’s nothing worse than finding the perfect place to stay for your vacation with a great price, location, and size. This is why many people choose Airbnb because it offers flexibility, great prices, and gives you the opportunity to stay in a place for a few days or even months. Due to its popularity, hackers or scammers view it as the perfect opportunity to scam guests or hosts out of their money, ruining their vacation plans and risking their privacy.

Monitor the cost of your public sector applications with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

As federal, state, and local government agencies work to modernize their digital infrastructure and applications, managing costs effectively remains a constant challenge. Federal directives like Cloud Smart indicate the need for public sector IT organizations to track and optimize their cloud spends. However, as an organization’s IT environment grows in complexity, it becomes difficult to correlate cost data and extract useful insights.

EBS Vs. EFS: Which AWS Data Storage Solution Is Best For You

AWS currently offers eight main data storage services that cover different needs, from object storage to file and block storage. The most popular is Amazon S3, an object storage service. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) follow. Both offer persistent, secure, and scalable storage. Yet, each has a distinct architecture and use cases. In this guide, we compare EBS vs EFS to help you decide which is better for your AWS data storage needs.

Building Resilience from Architecture to Production with AWS & Gremlin

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?

Azure Savings Plans and Reservations: Unlocking Cloud Cost Savings

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.