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We're proud to announce that you can now get Aiven services also directly from Azure Marketplace. Find out what it means—for you.

Microsoft Azure Cloud offers broadly 3 different options to deploy SQL on Azure: Choosing the right Azure deployment option for you depends on your requirements and the level of effort you want to put into managing your SQL server.

Sysdig is pleased to announce that we’ve achieved the Amazon Linux 2022 Ready designation as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. Amazon Linux 2022 (AL2022) is the newest Linux operating system from AWS available to support your workloads running on Amazon EC2. The team at Sysdig validated AL2022 with Sysdig Secure and Sysdig Monitor to ensure full support for our container security and cloud-native monitoring capabilities with this latest OS.

When transitioning from physical infrastructure to the cloud, it’s easy to think that your networks will instantly be faster, more reliable, and produce windfalls of cost savings overnight. Unfortunately, this wishful line of thinking fails to account for some of the complexities of cloud networking and is one of the biggest drivers of the cloud deployment mistakes we see.

When you are downloading or sharing files online, there is a good chance that one of them will be in the form of a zip file. A zip file is a compressed folder that compresses multiple files into a single folder. The main benefit of zip files is to reduce the size of various files into smaller ones. Especially when you are transferring these files over the internet, reducing their size means they take up less bandwidth and download faster.

For the last few years, many development teams have replaced traditional data centers with cloud-hosted infrastructure. Cloud adoption continues to grow, and teams are updating applications to leverage cloud-based services. But for many organizations, adopting a single cloud provider to host all their applications and data can put their business at risk. To reduce these risks, some organizations are distributing resources across multiple cloud providers in a specifically designed way.

A good chunk of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud spending goes to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) service. Because it is the default compute service on AWS, Amazon EC2 is key to building, running, and scaling your AWS-based applications. That also means Amazon EC2 pricing has a tremendous impact on your AWS budget. Understanding how the EC2 billing model works will help you control and optimize your AWS spending.

The main street in my town is mostly lined with mom-and-pop shops, and I love to support these businesses. Large online retailers keep making it harder for these stores to compete, so I think it’s important to keep doing business with them when I can. Lately, it’s been interesting to see that these mom-and-pop shops increasingly have something in common with the largest online retailers: They’re reliant on the internet to deliver their goods and services to consumers.

We’re extremely happy to announce that Torq has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. The CSA has more than 80,000 members worldwide and has been endorsed by the American Presidential Administration, which selected the CSA Summit as the venue for announcing the federal government’s cloud computing strategy.

The internet is inherently complex, and it can be difficult to understand all the various moving parts that make it work. But that doesn't mean you can learn a little more about what makes the World Wide Web tick. In this article, you'll learn what the internet is, how it's structured, and how information flows across the web.