Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

You might wonder how companies using Amazon Web Services waste more than $10 billion annually. It’s easy to ask, “why don’t they just reduce their spending?” Well, it’s because there’s more to it than that. AWS offers many options — over 200 different services, for example. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides over 300 AWS instance types spread over five unique instance families.

The state of industries has come a long way since the Industrial Revolution with new technologies such as smart devices, the internet, and the cloud. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a network of industrial components that share and process data to gain insights. But as IIoT involves sensitive data and life-critical operations, this also comes with various IIoT cloud security challenges. Therefore, it is important to strengthen security.

AWS Auto scaling Auto scaling is a powerful feature that allows your cloud infrastructure to dynamically adjust capacity based on demand, optimizing both performance and cost. However, to truly harness the power of Auto Scaling groups in AWS, you need to move beyond basic setup and dive into fine-tuning with advanced monitoring. This blog will guide you through advanced strategies for optimizing your AWS auto scaling using enhanced monitoring functionalities.

In today’s interconnected business world, external collaboration is essential. SharePoint Online provides the flexibility to share documents with external partners, clients, and vendors, but this can also expose organizations to data security risks. Securing external sharing while ensuring smooth collaboration is key to maintaining trust and protecting sensitive information. Here’s how you can achieve that balance.

For businesses, choosing the right cloud storage becomes more complex than for the average user because factors other than personal preferences and needs come into play. Companies need to consider the big picture when choosing a storage solution for their data. Businesses often deal with sensitive data, large files, and complex storage needs.

In this post, we look at optimizing cloud network routing to avoid suboptimal paths that increase latency, round-trip times, or costs. To mitigate this, we can adjust routing policies, strategically distributing resources, AWS Direct Connects, and by leveraging observability tools to monitor performance and costs, enabling informed decisions that balance performance with budget.