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Serverless roundup at AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS re:Invent was back and BIG last week in Las Vegas. Approximately 50,000 AWS customers and partners got together in Las Vegas to learn, talk shop, and maybe attend a couple of parties here and there. Not only did Lumigo have a booth, but our own Saar Tochner, R&D Team Lead and AWS Community Builder gave a well-received talk on Lambda extensions.

The Economics Behind Cloud-First Data Protection

If you’re still reliant on legacy local-first backup, you may not fully realize the financial impact of old-school image backup on your business. In today’s cloud-first world, it’s time to take a look at a modern cloud-first approach to data protection as a service. This webinar will walk you through the hidden (and not so hidden) costs of continuing to manage backup using either an image-based software product (like Veeam) or an integrated appliance (like Datto). We’ll do the math to show you a more cost-effective alternative.

Cloud Monitoring: Troubleshoot misfired alerts

Have you ever received an unexpected Cloud Alerting incident? Would you like to learn how to prevent unexpected alerts? In this video, we cover some key concepts related to Alert Policy configuring in Google Cloud Monitoring. We’ll show you how to troubleshoot two unexpected incidents one on Metric and one on Log based metric alerting policies and explore configuration improvements to prevent future false alerts.

Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2022

Just like shopping on Black Friday, AWS re:Invent has become a post-Thanksgiving tradition for some of us at Datadog. We were excited to join tens of thousands of fellow AWS users and partners for this annual gathering that features new product announcements, technical sessions, networking, and fun. This year, we saw three themes emerge from the conference announcements and sessions.

5 Things Dimensions Can Do That Regular Tagging Can't

“Perfect tagging” is a little bit like perfectly tuning a piano. It takes an enormous amount of manual effort to get right, it’s never truly perfect, and the slightest change in the surrounding environment can throw it out of harmony. The closer an organization wants to get to perfect tagging, the more engineering resources they have to invest in it — frequently at the expense of more impactful, innovation- and product-oriented projects.

One Cloud 66, One Product

We started Cloud 66 with a single product to deploy any Rails application to any cloud. Then, in 2014, we introduced Cloud 66 for Node; in 2015, Cloud 66 Maestro v1, 2016 Cloud 66 Maestro v2 (Kubernetes), 2019 Cloud 66 Skycap, and finally, Cloud 66 Prepress (Static Sites) was released in 2022. All these products exist to serve a single purpose: deployment of any application to any cloud. Today we are making it easier to do that: we are consolidating all our products into one: Cloud 66!

Three Key Considerations for Deploying Best-of-Breed Observability | AWS reInvent 2022, Ed Walsh

Organizations today need a broad set of cloud services to modernize their applications, keep their systems secure, and ultimately deliver for their customers. At the same time, application-generated operational data is complex, constantly growing, and coming from a variety of sources. This complexity requires a robust plan to ensure its availability for observability and analytics at scale. With today's solutions, TCO can vary wildly, which makes it critical to understand how costs are generated and quickly mount, including deploying your infrastructure, managing ongoing operations, managing data retention, scaling the stack, and building growth plans. Watch this lightning talk to learn about the three key considerations for success.

Cloud Marketplaces: How to Move "Tail Spend" to "Strategic Spend"

As macroeconomic pressures increase, it’s common to hear more in corporate hallways about “Tail Spend.” But what is it, and how can companies move this sometimes-shadowy expenditure into a strategic advantage for IT and DevOps teams? TOC: Here are some answers to commonly asked questions.